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Default I like cucumbers, I really do

On Jul 7, 9:56*pm, "M. JL Esq." > wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:
> > On 7/7/2011 7:24 PM, M. JL Esq. wrote:

>
> >> Nancy Young wrote:

>
> >>> But not that much! I'm pulling in 8-10 of them a day, and I am
> >>> not looking very hard, I'm sure there are more under there. Yikes!

>
> >>> I might have to foist them off on the soup kitchen. I wonder how
> >>> long before they start closing the gates when they see me coming.

>
> >> How do you feel about pickle making:

>
> > It's a good idea, though these would have to be cut up. *I'm fond of
> > half sour type of pickles, but they don't keep long. *I never did
> > take up canning, I should put up pickles.

>
> > nancy

>
> Reading some of the other responses (the greek salad suggestion) *made
> me wonder if that cucumber sauce "Tzatziki" would freeze well if made in
> quantity?
>
> Great sauce and even if not made up *in hugh quantities and frozen one
> could, with an excess of cucumbers, make up an extra large amount as a
> personal indulgence
>
> http://www.tzatzikisauce.net/


Freeze the grated cuke and add the (Greek) yogurt after thawing.

Jerry
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