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Quick, Cool Cucumber Sauce for Sandwiches and Vegetables

This is not tzatziki. We know it looks like tzatziki. And before you ask, "How many cucumber-yogurt sauces does one really need, anyway?" let us explain the difference......

Cool Recipe: Liz's Elderflower Champagne Cocktail
Stay Cool!

Name: Liz Location: Brooklyn, New York How are you staying cool? This cocktail tastes like vacation, a refreshing respite from the August heat. It's champagne stirred with St-Germain, a delicate Frenc...

Summer Flavor Inspiration Board: Cucumber and Mint

All we want right now are foods and flavors that are cooling, refreshing, and soothing. No pair fits this description better than cucumber and mint! What ways can you think of using these two ingredie...

Seasonal Recipe: Aunt Lorraine's Refrigerator Pickles

It's summer and it's time for pickles! While I'm a big fan of canning, sometimes the thought of standing over a stove in the dead-heat of summer is just too much. Enter the refrigerator pickle, a qu...

Leafy Green Salad Alternative For Picnics & Parties

In our home we have a problem with leafy greens. To be quite honest, after the first day they are home, they either get lost in the refrigerator or life gets too busy and we straight up forget about...

Recipe: Sour Cream Cucumber Salad with Mustard Seeds

My Easter meal this past weekend was a fusion menu between my own cultural heritage of Eastern European food (fried rolls, rich sweet bread) and Indian cuisine (tandoori-spiced leg of lamb, sunny yell...

Tip: Salt and Drain Cucumbers and Zucchini

I have a thing for cucumbers. I love their watery crispness and the way they taste with a little salt on top. But I don't like how they can water down a whole salad with their extra moisture. Zucchini...

Seasonal Ingredient: Armenian Cucumbers

I don’t know about you, but in my neck of the woods Armenian cucumbers are a rare, seasonal treat so whenever I spy them in my Mystery Box, I start to get a little happier. Long and skinny, with na...

Recipe: Sesame Cucumber Salad

I have a cucumber problem: suddenly I have armfuls of giant, prickly cukes in my garden. They're called Suyo Long Cucumbers and most gardeners would say there's not a lot to do with such a large frui...

Top Five: Ways to Use Cucumbers (Other Than Salad!)

Cucumbers are far more versatile than you might imagine. Their mild, slightly sweet flavor makes them the perfect palate for most any flavor--Asian, Latin American, Middle Eastern, you name it! Here ...

Summer Refreshment: How To Make Cucumber Juice

We had an abundance of cucumbers starting to pile up in our fridge, so we thought we'd try an experiment: making cucumber juice. We decided that cucumber juice not only makes a refreshing, slightly s...

More Summer Cocktails

Armed with all the fresh fruits and berries that are currently in season in California, we experimented with some new cocktail recipes over the weekend....

Summer Cocktail: The Cuke

When the air heats up and we're trying to stay cool as a cucumber (pun intended!) we love this cocktail. It combines cucumbers, limes, mint, and one of our favorite gins, Hendrick's....

Straight Up: Pimm's Cup for the English Gardener

Cool and crisp, with a citrusy, herbaceous tang, served over tinkling cubes of ice, Pimm’s Cup is the quintessential British summer drink. Although this tall refresher is most famously enjoyed by sp...

Simple Pleasure: Cucumber Water

We're not so good at drinking the recommended 64 ounces of water a day. Unfortunately, many of our ounces come in the form of soda, coffee, and, occasionally.... gin. We have found that keeping tap wa...

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