On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:55:36 -0400, 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

"When Ben Bradlee, former Managing Editor of the Washington Post retired,
he related a story about headlines and their creators. Bradlee always kept
his eyes on the headlines to keep the pranksters at bay. He apparently did
not scrutinize the "Food" section, or they never would have gotten away
with "Putting Pickles Up Yourself" (an actual headline)."

<http://talk.baltimoresun.com/showthread.php?t=270901>

your pal,
blake

"blake murphy" > wrote in message
...
> On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:06:14 -0700, Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 20:50:24 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Avins >
>> arranged random neurons and said:
>>
>>>A New York couple went to Vermont to visit former neighbors near St.
>>>Johnsbury. The refugees enthused about relaxed country living: "We
>>>never have to lock our doors around here." The four of them drove into
>>>town to stock up on a few staples, and the hosts carefully locked the
>>>car doors. They explained, "This time of year, if you don't do that,
>>>you come back to find the car full of zucchini."
>>
>> You really need to identify that as a very old joke, which it is, and
>> the vegetable varies by season and part of the country. Just sayin'.
>>
>> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
>
> it's new to me. must be because i'm a city boy.

It was new to me too It made me laugh

On Jul 7, 6:41*pm, Nancy Young <email@replyto> 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.
>
> nancy

Pick them when they're smaller. Nothing says you have
to wait until they look like a grocery store cuke.

Cindy Hamilton

On Jul 8, 1:06*am, Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 20:50:24 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Avins >
> arranged random neurons and said:
>
> >A New York couple went to Vermont to visit former neighbors near St.
> >Johnsbury. The refugees enthused about relaxed country living: "We
> >never have to lock our doors around here." The four of them drove into
> >town to stock up on a few staples, and the hosts carefully locked the
> >car doors. They explained, "This time of year, if you don't do that,
> >you come back to find the car full of zucchini."
>
> You really need to identify that as a very old joke, which it is, and
> the vegetable varies by season and part of the country. Just sayin'.

I read it in the 50s in Reader's Digest. Supposedly true, I thought it
appropriate to the thread.

Jerry
--
Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can
get.

and besides, if i have to fly i think i am entitled to a last meal that is
more than a bag of nuts, Lee


"Goomba" > wrote in message
...
> Bob Terwilliger wrote:
>> Goomba wrote:
>>
>>> I peel and seed them, then cube them to add to potato salad. Wonderful
>>> addition, IMO. Way better than gaggy hard boiled eggs in potato salad
>>> <pfttttuey!>
>>
>> Almost exactly a year ago I recommended using cucumbers in a salad with
>> chayote and Asian pear. I'm not fond of cucumbers in potato salad, but I
>> *do* sometimes add cucumber to egg salad.
>>
>> Bob
>
> When waxing poetic about airline food (funny, no?) I often rave about a
> KLM flight I took between Amsterdam and London. It was such a short
> flight, US air carriers wouldn't even have had time to snarl at you while
> tossing out a bag of nuts or pretzels. Yet those gorgeous well coiffed and
> dressed KLM goddesses (no other way to describe those 6' tall blond
> beauties) passed out a soda/water and a small paper wrapped tray with your
> choice of either egg salad or a seafood salad sandwich. That egg salad
> possibly contained small minced bits of cucumber and chives or something
> in a creamy dressing. I don't eat much egg salad but this stuff was
> wonderful!
> How KLM managed it when Delta can't is beyond me?
> <recalls that sf will snarl that no one ever needs to eat while on a
> flight, but knows that is unrealistic as well as often unpleasant>

The Cook > wrote:
>
> After two or three days of little picking, today I picked over 20
> pounds from my 8 plants. The baseball bats are going into the compost
> pile. If I were not staring at so many (some in the refrigerator) I
> might try to come up with ideas to use them.

Twenty pounds of cucumbers from eight plants... Am I going to have fun this
fall. I have twenty four pickling cucumbers plants. My plants are around
one foot high on trellises, no fruits yet. Late planting due heavy rains
last may.

I will try make different kinds of relishes this year from the Holy Book of
Canning from Ball. I tend use a lot relishes for sandwich spreads, hotdogs
and tarter sauce.

So how many quarts or pints did you get from twenty pounds of cucumbers?
I just want know what I am getting my self into

--
Enjoy Life... Nad R (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)

On 7/8/2011 7:44 AM, Goomba wrote:

> When waxing poetic about airline food (funny, no?) I often rave about a
> KLM flight I took between Amsterdam and London. It was such a short
> flight, US air carriers wouldn't even have had time to snarl at you
> while tossing out a bag of nuts or pretzels. Yet those gorgeous well
> coiffed and dressed KLM goddesses (no other way to describe those 6'
> tall blond beauties) passed out a soda/water and a small paper wrapped
> tray with your choice of either egg salad or a seafood salad sandwich.
> That egg salad possibly contained small minced bits of cucumber and
> chives or something in a creamy dressing. I don't eat much egg salad but
> this stuff was wonderful!
> How KLM managed it when Delta can't is beyond me?
> <recalls that sf will snarl that no one ever needs to eat while on a
> flight, but knows that is unrealistic as well as often unpleasant>

We had a 3 hour fight between Frankfort and Moscow and Lufthansa fed us
dinner. Lufthansa has free wine and it's pretty good stuff.

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.

On 7/8/2011 12:51 PM, blake murphy wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:55:36 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:

>> 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.

> "When Ben Bradlee, former Managing Editor of the Washington Post retired,
> he related a story about headlines and their creators. Bradlee always kept
> his eyes on the headlines to keep the pranksters at bay. He apparently did
> not scrutinize the "Food" section, or they never would have gotten away
> with "Putting Pickles Up Yourself" (an actual headline)."
>
> <http://talk.baltimoresun.com/showthread.php?t=270901>

(laughing) Sometimes I think editors print some headlines hoping to
wind up on Leno. That's funny.

nancy

On 7/8/2011 1:06 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Jul 7, 6:41 pm, Nancy Young<email@replyto> 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.

> Pick them when they're smaller. Nothing says you have
> to wait until they look like a grocery store cuke.

True. However, they are the sneakiest vegetable I've ever seen.
They hide, and they seem to go from tiny to huge overnight.

nancy

On 7/8/2011 11:13 AM, The Cook wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:41:18 -0400, Nancy Young<email@replyto> 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!

> After two or three days of little picking, today I picked over 20
> pounds from my 8 plants.

Holy crow. I haven't gone out to look today, I'm sure I have
some bats out there of my own.

Too bad I've had zero success with green beans the last couple
of years, I wouldn't mind a bunch of those.

> The baseball bats are going into the compost
> pile. If I were not staring at so many (some in the refrigerator) I
> might try to come up with ideas to use them.
>
> Renee, any new recipe for B&B pickles much appreciated.
>
> I also have several zucchini to use up. Just remember the zucchini
> bread. It is a nice whole wheat yeast bread.

If you have the freezer space, that's a good way to use up some
zucchini.

nancy

On 7/8/2011 10:27 AM, Tyson wrote:
> I also like the cucumber most, because it is very healthy for health
> and it contains 97% of water in it and i also mostly used in salad and
> without salad with salt. It's taste is really good to eat.

It's very refreshing.

Last year I made something similar to the vodka Bob T mentioned, I
made cucumber water. A number of slices of cucumber in a container of
water in the refrigerator. Tasty.

nancy

Slice some cucumbers and add them to a pitcher of ice water. The
water will have the most refreshing fragrance and flavor.

Tara

On 7/8/2011 5:45 PM, Tara wrote:

> Slice some cucumbers and add them to a pitcher of ice water. The
> water will have the most refreshing fragrance and flavor.

Thanks! I did that last year. I will be making some this weekend
as I have some weeding to do and it will be nice in the heat.

I appreciate all the ideas everyone posted, I apologize if I missed
responding to anyone. Been a lot going on here not cucumber related.

And I'm thinking the construction workers across the street ... they
probably don't lock their trucks ....

nancy

On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 10:20:49 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Avins >
arranged random neurons and said:

>On Jul 8, 1:06*am, Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 20:50:24 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Avins >
>> arranged random neurons and said:
>>
>> >A New York couple went to Vermont to visit former neighbors near St.
>> >Johnsbury. The refugees enthused about relaxed country living: "We
>> >never have to lock our doors around here." The four of them drove into
>> >town to stock up on a few staples, and the hosts carefully locked the
>> >car doors. They explained, "This time of year, if you don't do that,
>> >you come back to find the car full of zucchini."
>>
>> You really need to identify that as a very old joke, which it is, and
>> the vegetable varies by season and part of the country. Just sayin'.
>
>I read it in the 50s in Reader's Digest. Supposedly true, I thought it
>appropriate to the thread.

Didn't say it wasn't.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

--

To reply, remove "spambot" and replace it with "cox"

On 7/8/2011 8:02 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 7/7/2011 10:40 PM, Bob Terwilliger wrote:
>
>>
>> Finally, a *great* use for cucumber is using them to infuse vodka.
>> Iced tea
>> with cucumber-flavored vodka is a wonderful summertime cooler.
>
> Thanks for all of those great ideas. I will be trying some of them
> for sure.
>
> nancy

The last episode of "Drinking Made Easy" had the host visiting a bar
where they made this:


Q Bar Sparkling Wine Cocktail:
Muddle sliced cucumber, a squeeze of lime and simple syrup
Add Pomegranate Liqueur and Agave Nectar
Shake and strain, add Sparkling Wine and serve.

It sure looked good!

"Nancy Young" <email@replyto> wrote in message
.com...
> On 7/8/2011 1:06 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On Jul 7, 6:41 pm, Nancy Young<email@replyto> 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.
>
>> Pick them when they're smaller. Nothing says you have
>> to wait until they look like a grocery store cuke.
>
> True. However, they are the sneakiest vegetable I've ever seen.
> They hide, and they seem to go from tiny to huge overnight.

Time to install cameras and do a stake out...

"Nancy Young" <email@replyto> wrote in message
.com...
> On 7/8/2011 5:45 PM, Tara wrote:
>
>> Slice some cucumbers and add them to a pitcher of ice water. The
>> water will have the most refreshing fragrance and flavor.
>
> Thanks! I did that last year. I will be making some this weekend
> as I have some weeding to do and it will be nice in the heat.
>
> I appreciate all the ideas everyone posted, I apologize if I missed
> responding to anyone. Been a lot going on here not cucumber related.
>
> And I'm thinking the construction workers across the street ... they
> probably don't lock their trucks ....

lol

"Ophelia" > ha scritto nel messaggio

> Time to install cameras and do a stake out...
I just sent you a thoughtful email. It's safe and really from me.

"Giusi" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Ophelia" > ha scritto nel messaggio
>
>> Time to install cameras and do a stake out...
> I just sent you a thoughtful email. It's safe and really from me.

If it was the song then I am singing along...

On 2011-07-08, Tara > wrote:
> Slice some cucumbers and add them to a pitcher of ice water. The
> water will have the most refreshing fragrance and flavor.

That's a new one on me.

I'm a long time fresh-lemon-in-my-water fan. Drinking some now.
Never heard of using a cucumber. Outta cukes, as I used 'em up in my
gazpacho, but as soon as get a couple more, I'll definitely give it a
shot. Thnx fer the tip.

nb

"notbob" > wrote in message
...
> On 2011-07-08, Tara > wrote:
>> Slice some cucumbers and add them to a pitcher of ice water. The
>> water will have the most refreshing fragrance and flavor.
>
> That's a new one on me.
>
> I'm a long time fresh-lemon-in-my-water fan. Drinking some now.
> Never heard of using a cucumber. Outta cukes, as I used 'em up in my
> gazpacho, but as soon as get a couple more, I'll definitely give it a
> shot. Thnx fer the tip.
>
> nb

If you drink gin, try Hendricks. Cucumber infused.

On 7/8/2011 9:44 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 7/8/2011 5:45 PM, Tara wrote:
>
>> Slice some cucumbers and add them to a pitcher of ice water. The
>> water will have the most refreshing fragrance and flavor.
>
> Thanks! I did that last year. I will be making some this weekend
> as I have some weeding to do and it will be nice in the heat.
>
> I appreciate all the ideas everyone posted, I apologize if I missed
> responding to anyone. Been a lot going on here not cucumber related.
>
> And I'm thinking the construction workers across the street ... they
> probably don't lock their trucks ....
>
> nancy

How about kimchi?

http://koreanfood.about.com/od/sided.../OiSobaegi.htm

http://drbenkim.com/how-to-make-cucumber-kim-chi.htm

On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:28:43 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:

> On 7/8/2011 12:51 PM, blake murphy wrote:
>> On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:55:36 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
>> "When Ben Bradlee, former Managing Editor of the Washington Post retired,
>> he related a story about headlines and their creators. Bradlee always kept
>> his eyes on the headlines to keep the pranksters at bay. He apparently did
>> not scrutinize the "Food" section, or they never would have gotten away
>> with "Putting Pickles Up Yourself" (an actual headline)."
>>
>> <http://talk.baltimoresun.com/showthread.php?t=270901>
>
> (laughing) Sometimes I think editors print some headlines hoping to
> wind up on Leno. That's funny.
>
> nancy

i thought the head published somewhere was 'you can put pickles up
yourself,' but i couldn't really verify that.

your pal,
blake

On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 19:26:35 +0000 (UTC), Nad R wrote:

> The Cook > wrote:
>>
>> After two or three days of little picking, today I picked over 20
>> pounds from my 8 plants. The baseball bats are going into the compost
>> pile. If I were not staring at so many (some in the refrigerator) I
>> might try to come up with ideas to use them.
>
> Twenty pounds of cucumbers from eight plants... Am I going to have fun this
> fall. I have twenty four pickling cucumbers plants. My plants are around
> one foot high on trellises, no fruits yet. Late planting due heavy rains
> last may.
>
> I will try make different kinds of relishes this year from the Holy Book of
> Canning from Ball. I tend use a lot relishes for sandwich spreads, hotdogs
> and tarter sauce.
>
> So how many quarts or pints did you get from twenty pounds of cucumbers?
> I just want know what I am getting my self into

i would think a metric shitload.

your pal,
blake

On 7/7/2011 6:41 PM, 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.
>
> nancy

I love cukes. Send them to me! Want my address? ;-)

Kate

--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?

On 7/13/2011 1:08 PM, Kate Connally wrote:
> On 7/7/2011 6:41 PM, 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.

> I love cukes. Send them to me! Want my address? ;-)

For you Kate, I'd be happy to! (laugh) Watch for the UPS guy.

nancy

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:04:27 -0400, Nancy Young <email@replyto> wrote:

>On 7/13/2011 1:08 PM, Kate Connally wrote:
>> On 7/7/2011 6:41 PM, 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.
>
>> I love cukes. Send them to me! Want my address? ;-)
>
>For you Kate, I'd be happy to! (laugh) Watch for the UPS guy.
>
>nancy

Would that be the same UPS guy that wouldn't give you your package
because he was on lunch?

Lou

On 7/13/2011 4:44 PM, Lou Decruss wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:04:27 -0400, Nancy Young<email@replyto> wrote:

>> For you Kate, I'd be happy to! (laugh) Watch for the UPS guy.

> Would that be the same UPS guy that wouldn't give you your package
> because he was on lunch?

What a memory! That was the Fedex guy, I waited all day for the
rfc cookbooks, couldn't wait to start getting them out ... and
he parks in front of my house and goes on break. (laugh) I
went out to get the box, no, I'm on break.

nancy

On 7/13/2011 4:04 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 7/13/2011 1:08 PM, Kate Connally wrote:
>> On 7/7/2011 6:41 PM, 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.
>
>> I love cukes. Send them to me! Want my address? ;-)
>
> For you Kate, I'd be happy to! (laugh) Watch for the UPS guy.
>
> nancy

Yeah, but, but, you didn't get my address? How's he gonna
know where to bring them? :-(

Kate

--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:52:02 -0400, Nancy Young <email@replyto> wrote:

>On 7/13/2011 4:44 PM, Lou Decruss wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:04:27 -0400, Nancy Young<email@replyto> wrote:
>
>>> For you Kate, I'd be happy to! (laugh) Watch for the UPS guy.
>
>> Would that be the same UPS guy that wouldn't give you your package
>> because he was on lunch?
>
>What a memory! That was the Fedex guy, I waited all day for the
>rfc cookbooks, couldn't wait to start getting them out ... and
>he parks in front of my house and goes on break. (laugh) I
>went out to get the box, no, I'm on break.

I got the fed ex part wrong but I knew all that. I have no memory and
can't remember what I had for dinner last night but I've been
watching Medium on netflix and I've started having dreams and visions.

Lou