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Over inflated cucumber

DaintinessDaintiness Posts: 988
in Fruit & veg
What uses would you recommend for overinflated cucumbers? 🤔

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  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Cucumber soup.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    That looks very like the gherkin I missed the other day  :D 
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • DaintinessDaintiness Posts: 988
    I didn’t know there was such a thing as cucumber soup! I’ll give it a go, thanks! 😋
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    I like them in stir fry, peel, de-seed and add as one of the last ingredients, YUM.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    BBC Good Food has recipes for hot and cold cucumber soups as well as cucumber salads and more.   Just go to the website and put cucumber in the search box.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    Like Skandi, I use them in stir fry exactly the same way.  Just long enough to heat them through.  
    Utah, USA.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Yes, or a light Asian pickle or in Raita and Panzanella but the cucumber, lettuce and pea soup on BBC Good Food is good too.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DaintinessDaintiness Posts: 988
    Thanks or your replies. I am going to give the recipes a try! 😁
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    A doorstop?
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Ho-ho!  I have blitzed garlic, parsley, chilli, spring onions and kaffir lime leaves and mixed it into some lean minced beef to make Thai style burgers for dinner.  We'll be having them with cucumber and sesame salad and a courgette and mint garden.

    Garlic, parsley, mint, courgette and cucumbers all from the garden.    No rice, noodles or buns so maybe a tomato, chilli and basil salad too - all from the garden.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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