Good god what do i do with an over abundance of cucumbers? I grew too many, Ive made enough pickles for a year, ive made a bunch of tzatziki sauce, im eating them in salads, what else can i do with them?
>>21399627 (OP)Stir fry interestingly enough, hot cucumber is highly underrated.
Also great on sandwiches or in drinks, but those both use very little of it.
>>21399627 (OP)I've used them as a dildo before.
give them away and make some friends :]
>>21399627 (OP)cucumber drinks are pretty popular
GF made and sold home made pickles for $8 a jar. Jars and lids are like $1 a piece, garlic, vinigger and peppers and onions aren't that expensive. Go make some profit you farmin man!
>>21399627 (OP)keep pickling them, buy more mason jars and sell them for cheap, undercut store bought with homemade
Cucumber lemonade. Juice just enough lemons to cover the blender blades then add whole cucumbers and whole, peeled lemons, blitz smooth, strain through a nutmilk bag or other muslin-like cloth (I like the bag because you can squeeze a lot of juice out) and sweeten to taste.
Curried cucumber. It's this Marathi thing the missus makes. She uses this Indian type of cucumber that's naturally sour but you could probably just add lemon juice to the same end.
She does this other thing with actual cucumber. She fries it with saltfish, vegetables and these yellow chillies she buys and you can eat it hot with rice or roti or cold as a salad or in a bread roll.
Lamb and cucumber soup. I don't know how to make it but it's a common food in China.
Oimuchim. Thinly slice and salt don't cucumber, drain of the leeched water then rinse in a few changes of fresh water to remove the saltiness and squeeze dry in cloth (again, I use a nutmilk bag). Dress with garlic, onion greens, sliced red chili, thin soy sauce and sesame oil. Authentic recipes add sugar and more soy sauce than I do but I use mushroom seasoning powder because it's sweet on its own and adds plenty of sodium. You can add Korean chilli powder or flake if you desire. Toss to combine and allow to sit a while before serving. I like to add cane vinegar to make it sour.
Cream cheese and cucumber sandwiches. Really good with hot-smoked salmon crumbled into the cheese, as well. In fact, you can cut out the bread altogether halve and scoop the cucumbers, treat them with salt like the oimuchim recipe (but be very careful with them; other than halving and scooping, you want to keep them intact) and stuff them with the salmon cream cheese before slicing into bite size. The treatment prevents them from going waterlogged. You can also slice the cukes thick and pipe some salmon cream cheese on top like a cupcake.
Green gazpacho.
Ribboned cucumber salad.
Rice and cucumber salad with vegetables and lemon vinaigrette (citronette?).
>>21399627 (OP)make more pickles. give them as gifts or sell them. or just keep them cause they'll last years.
>>21399627 (OP)I make a big japanese style cucumber sunomono pretty often
wiz some cukes through the mandolin, salt em, sit em in the sieve so the water comes out, then you make a nice dressing with rice vinegar, sugar and fish sauce
let the cuckes soak overnight
delish with white rice or anything really
>>21399627 (OP)If it was winter I would tell you to salt pickle them and keep em outside, that's what I do every winter. You can sell em or trade em...
>>21399627 (OP)Japanese cucumber salad is amazing. Loads of umami and sesame seed oil is delicious with cucumbers.
>>21399627 (OP)you could drive around town and hand them out children waiting for the school bus
>>21400582Based crammer
OP cram them all up your cooter
i know you said you've already been making salads, but this one consists of only cucumber. my wife made this korean style spicy smashed cucumber salad once. i don't know what recipe she used, but here is a similar one from a relatively reputable source to give you an idea: https://thewoksoflife.com/smashed-asian-cucumber-salad/
>>21400701Not OP but that salad sounds good, saved to make it later.
>>21399627 (OP)Put a few in the fridge, nice snack on a hot day
>>21400880This is the most inventive thing I'll read today
>>21399627 (OP)Believe it or not you can put in a food dehydrator.
Last year I had too many out of my garden. So I cut them into thin slices and threw them in the food dehydrator to what would happen. They came out like chips. Now I add them to ramen, or just season them and eat them like a chip.
>>21399627 (OP)make more pickles but experiment with them, i recommend adding assloads of garlic
cant you dehydrate pickles and turn them into a spice? i would do that, and if you and salt you have pickle salt
store them in sesame marinade and invite ponies over
>>21399627 (OP)I just eat them raw.
I don't even need salt.
I will say that horseradish goes good with raw veggies though
marinate in shio koji; marinate in ponzu, rayu shichimi and a tidbit of sesame oil,
>>21400249, marinate with seasoned rice vinegar and julienne carrots...I dunno...that's what I usually do
>>21400249this. I actually like it more than cabbage kim chee
>>21399627 (OP)>what do i do with an over abundance of cucumbersdude easiest question ever, you make pickles and give them out to the neighbors or trade for chicken eggs/meat etc.
>>21399627 (OP)>help, help! I have too many free pickles!Can't relate, but I'm happy for you.
