Monday, June 24, 2013

Simply Recipes: Cucumber Salad with Grapes and Almonds

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Jun 25th 2013, 04:28

Cucumber Salad with Grapes and Almonds on Simply Recipes

Good morning summer and hello cucumbers! What’s your favorite cucumber?Lemon cucumber? English? Armenian? How about pickling? For many years I’ve grown lemon cucumbers, which are yellow and the size of a large lemon when ripe. They look sort of cool, but they can get seedy and they can be somewhat awkward to handle. This year I decided to plant Persian cucumbers instead, which are more delicate than the normal garden variety, and thin-skinned, perfect for salads. I hope you like cucumbers dear readers, because the summer is only a few days old and already my plant is taking over the sunny corner of the garden. It grows mad like zucchini, but with smaller leaves and a more vine-y approach to life.

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