Cuisine at home

CUCUMBERS GALORE

IS YOUR GARDEN OVERFLOWING WITH CUKES?

Are you wondering what to do with your bountiful crop? Here are four flavorful cucumber-centric recipes that are just as refreshing as they are SO good.

Cucumbers aren’t just for slicing in salads and the Smashed Cucumber Salad especially makes that point, they’re the star of this popular Chinese dish. The smashing (literally) process is a classic Chinese technique that cracks the cucumber skins and helps release the seeds and splits the flesh into chunky bites. Then salting and chilling gives them the perfect crunch. That same philosophy — salting and icing

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