Well here it is good looking people, the long awaited for cucumber that I have been going on about since Friday. This is the second of two exciting developments in the backyard.
The little treasure came as one of those wonderful surprises, you know when you are searching through your veggie patch looking for something when all of a sudden you spot the prize you didn't even know was there?
In my case we were on a caterpillar rampage. I line the children up, give them a cup each, and away we go, hunting down the veggie munching critters mercilessly. I was in the middle of the pumpkin patch with my eye on a lovely fat green caterpillar, when all of a sudden the leaves parted and I caught sight of the most beautiful thing in the vegetable world: something that I hadn't killed.
I think we'll have it for afternoon tea on buttered bread :)
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It is wonderful to find an un-expected treasure among the green leaves! Cukes are so good to munch on thinly sliced with or without bread (somehow sandwiches seem a waste of good cucumber) just heavenly crunching! To think the klutzes who taught cookery in my school daze reckoned cucumbers were poisonous and to score the skin with a fork to let out the poison! I hasten to add I went to school post-World War 2 and not in the 1800s!
Lol, how was scoring it going to let out the poison? That's quite interesting, do you know where that idea comes from?
The cucumber is very exciting, I was thinking that aside from sandwiches, I could make a curry and make it into a raita. I LOVE raita. Yum. How are your cucumbers going?
I've no idea where the poisonous cucumber idea came from. Someone's fevered imagination, perhaps ;-) It occurred to me one day when I was dutifully scoring my beautiful cucumbers that it could not be true. The utterly stupid ideas rammed into young heads take some shaking. Pity the poor kids who get religion stuffed into them from an early age.
Raita is fabulous - homemade Kefir or Yoghurt or Biodynamic Yoghurt yummmm! I think you need to put some salt on the slices or gratings to get excess moisture out first before you add them to the Yoghurt. Remember to add some Mint!
The one mature Burpless was divine, another is coming. They fruit fairly slowly at first then all of a sudden you are knee-deep in cucumbers. Tried pickling them as in dill-pickled cucumbers without any real success. Stick to eating them raw :-) Two other varieties are just baby plants which have not flowered yet. Give 'em time!
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You are a brave woman Elaine, eating of the poison vegetable! I'll bet you worried about it just a tiny bit though, sitting there after your meal, digesting your rebellious dish.
I don't have a whole lot of cucumber recipes, but I guess I am about to learn!
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