Taking a Break From the Cucumbers

I think it was Samuel Johnson who once said, "The best thing you can do with a cucumber is, put plenty of salt and vinegar on it and throw it in the bin" One thing I do know for certain is that cucumbers repeat on you right through the day.... One thing I do know for certain is that cucumbers repeat on you right through the day....

Right now that is not our case. Our garden is winding down. Our cucumbers did not produce this year. I wish I had your problem! I do love me some cucumbers. I think I can understand how you feel though. Sometimes after having too much of something even the smell of it can make you cringe.

Nope, I don't really have anything growing in my garden. I just find it really hard to keep up the maintenance of it. The garden is growing a lot of weeds and vines around everywhere. It just gives me a lot of stress with having to clean it up all the time everyday. I just find it really cheaper to just buy it from my local vegetable and fruit store.

Wow! I wish I could grow my own food here. Back at my province, we had the farm and all our vegetables were really fresh. I love cucumbers - alone or in a salad, or sandwhich. I loooooovvvvveeeee cucumber kimchi. Can I have some cucumbers? I would really love to make kimchi!

Please send me those cucumbers? They are a bit expensive here and I would love to get some for free! If only. When i was young, we had a lot of papaya trees in our backyard and we were just fed up with eating them.

Cucumber smoothies are good. Our neighbor grows a lot of tomatoes that are delicious. I can't really eat cucumbers whole as they are hard to digest. But in a smoothie they are great.

I can only wish I had that problem! I have a beautiful cucumber vine, luscious looking and just covered in blooms, but not one cucumber so far. It's easy to make refrigerator pickles and you don't have to seal them or anything except keep them cold.

As they say "Too much of something good may not be good for you" hehehe.. I could actually relate to your sentiments here, we have a small farm which harvests a lot of greens and one of them is the green-leafy vegetable (I don't know the English name for it) but we're just sick to the core seeing and eating it! hahaha.. So we decided to sell them or to give them away. Though production isn't that much to truly have a stable market - so most of the times, we just give them away. Why don't you trade it with some other neighbors with different home-grown products? Perhaps sell them? There must be other ways to make use of it while not making you sick of them. hehe.. Good luck! Have a great Mylot experience ahead!

u CAN FREEZE CUCUMBERS & THEY ARE REALLY GOOD ESPECIALLY IN THE WINTER WHEN THEY ARE SO EXPENSIVE & NOT REALLY THAT GOOD EITHER.

Well dear do you know that cucumber juice with lemon and honey make a real delightful drink? Try it and see how you will so love the taste! Eating slices of cucumber all the time is boring so you have to enjoy your cucumber in another way. You can also make pickles from them if I may suggest. At home I have lots of mangoes. My mango tree has been really fruitful. I have shared many to neighbors but still there are lots left for us so I have to be creative enough to keep enjoying the fruits. I have juiced most of ripe ones and kept in the fridge. Now the puree makes a real delightful everyday drink for us. It's either we add some water to the puree or add some milk for variation. I also do make mango sorbet, mango crepe, mango dip and a lot more recipes out of these mangoes. Even the raw mangoes need not go to waste either. I have pickled and bottled them. They are so good with fried fish or anything fried. It takes some effort but that is better than wasting these mangoes. After all... not all people have the blessings of bountiful mangoes on the table. Same things goes true to your cucumbers. Not all have bountiful cucumbers. I myself do have to buy them at ten pesos each if I want to eat some.

I wonder if you can slice them and freeze them so you have them in Winter. We aren't able to plant. I have a cherry tomato bush in a big container and they are delicious. I have gotten sort of tired of them. I love them in the pear or cherry types. Little bit of a different flavor in both.

I don't have a garden but I understand what you are saying. I just gor bored of green peppers in my salad. They have a lot of vitamin C, but I just can't eat them for now.

I wish you could send me all the cucumber to my house. I have eaten cucumber every single day probably for last couple of months, mainly because of hot weather and secondly to make salad. I am getting tired of it right now though. I do not have a garden to plant where I live in any kind of vegetables. I hope you can get rid of the abundant cucumber in a good way.

We have tons of cucumbers right now too from the garden. I get tired of them real quick just eating them plain or even in a salad. I used some of them in a creamy cucumber onion salad that is really good and the others I cut up for pickles. I make a really easy pickle recipe where you don't have to can them just put in a jar in the refrigerator with the seasonings and stuff and they are ready to eat within a few days and last pretty long just like the pickles you buy. At least they don't go to waste then. That or give some away to friends.

Cucumbers are my favorite food! I could never stop eating them. We've picked only a few from our garden this year, and I just slice them up and add some vinegar. Such a refreshing snack. We've had a really bad year this year for our garden, so we've only picked a few tomatoes and cucumbers. I wish I were in your situation, haha! But a few years ago, we had a really good tomato harvest, and we would have several every day. We'd just slice up the tomatoes and dip them in sugar. But we wouldn't mind, because our whole family LOVES tomatoes. ~ Annie

That's what happens when the supply is abundant. Look what is happening here after the floods. The price of vegetable have soared high to more than 5o percent due to crop destruction not only at the flooded ares but at the vegetable gardens upland and northern provinces of Luzon, Philippines. Even fish and meat prices are not exempted.

In my small garden I have lots of ripe hot chili before,but instead of letting them to fall on the ground I put them in a bottle with garlic, pepper, salt and vinegar to preserved it and I can use it anytime I want it.