Zukes and cukes.
That is all I am getting from the garden.
Our tomatoes look lush and green. Little blossoms and little fruit. These are our favorites and I guess I will have to realize that I cannot grow tomatoes.
These are called Marketeer.
Zukes and cukes.
These all came up volunteer. Go figure.
I can grow these.
So instead of canning lots of my home-grown tomatoes, I am searching out cucumber recipes.
I wrote about our mother/daughter lunch at Barn Happy last month. At that time, I searched the web to see if Barn Happy had any recipes published. They do have a cookbook out, but at their Facebook page I found a recipes for Tangy Cucumber Salad.
Marinated Cucumbers and Onions
based on Tangy Cucumber Salad from Barn Happy3 cucumbers, thinly sliced
1 t. Kosher salt
1 medium onion, thinly sliced
¼ c. cider vinegar
2 T. canola oil
1 T. local honey
½ t. celery salt
½ t. ground mustard
¼ t. garlic powder
¼ t. dried oregano
1 T. fresh basil, shopped
Dash of cayenne pepperPlace cucumbers in strainer; sprinkle with salt and toss. Let stand for 30 minutes. Rinse and drain well.
Place in large bowl and add onion.
Place the remaining ingredients in a blender and blend until incorporated. Pour over cucumber mixture and toss. Cover and refrigerate for several hours.
The original recipe also calls for two chopped tomatoes. Since I am getting NO tomatoes from the garden, I had no choice but to leave them out. The onions are from our garden as are the cucumbers and basil. (Barn Happy used dried basil. I used fresh.) I also threw in some small sweet peppers.
This is a delicious twist on the old plain vinegar-cucumber salad that we grew up with.
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Sorry! I’m not having a good tomato year either. Drowning in yellow squash!
I’s sorry too! At least we’re getting something! 🙂
You have an amazing garden! I have lots to learn about gardening. The pickles look very refreshing!
This is a great salad. I bet it is right up your alley.
I can see a bit of disturbance regarding the tomatoes here haha! Don’t worry this is nature and if you leave her free she makes the choices! Nevertheless you have some beautiful cucumber plants and you should be very proud about them! I love pickled cucumbers and this salad looks perfect!
Disturbance? I am really POed! 🙂 There is always the fall.
I adore cucumber salad. Yes, I do love them with tomatoes, but just plain old cucumbers work too. I’ve heard a lot of people say that they’re having trouble with tomatoes this year. Around here zucchini is also suffering. I think I got a total of two this year and I’m usually given bags upon bags. I’m definitely going to give your salad a chance. Thanks for seeking it out for us!
The Hubs loves cucumbers and cucumber salad. In fact, his mother tells a story that she would give him a choice between a candy bar and a cucumber. He would take the cucumber. 🙂
Aw, poor Debra! I make a tangy cuke & onion salad but it doesn’t have all the herbs – I should try this!
I know. I want maters! 🙂
Oh my gosh, it worked! Did you change something or is my computer finally being nice to me?
Nope. Divine intervention?? 🙂
Love cucumber salad! The thing we cannot grow here is corn. There are fields of corn around us but, we can’t grow corn for the life of us. Everything else grows great. Although I did get less tomatoes this year…maybe it’s a bad tomato year…lol!
It must be a bad tomato year. What the heck?
I love cukes, but the hubby does not. I would be happy with a big bowl of this salad in the fridge..just for me 🙂
I didn’t make it to the garden tonight. Canning jelly instead. I bet I have a bunch more for a bunch more of this salad.
I love those pickles! YUM! The Tomatoes are not your fault – the farmers from the market in town say almost all of Oklahoma got too much rain to have good tomatoes or even decent sized onions and I believe that is true! They said it was the late frost, two hailstorms and the huge rains. Try again next year – what would it hurt?
I probably won’t give up! 🙂
Lush tomatoes my friend and I love your marinated veges 😀
Yum!
Cheers
CCU
Thanks, Uru. Hope exams are still going good.
Your garden looks beautiful! I grew cucumbers this year as well and have been eating them every day. So have my turtles. 🙂 Tomorrow I’ll make your dish because it sounds perfect! I’ll have you another cucumber recipe in a couple of weeks.
Bring on the cuke recipes, MJ.
WOw, you go girl–what a great gardener. And a perfect recipe to use your produce. Lucky lady–wish I lived closer and I would make a a trade! I am sure I have something you want..
Tomatoes?
Not that this would make you feel better, but you are not alone…no maters for me either. There is nothing like a home grown tomato. I am very impressed with your marinated cucumber and onions!
I think that is why I am so disappointed. We love fresh tomatoes.
I like your marinated cucumber salad. It reminds me a little of the flavors of bread and butter pickles have. Don’t give up growing tomatoes. It has been a terrible year here in Maine…way too much rain. I had hundreds of wonderful tomatoes last year and way less than fifty this year.
It is a little tangier than bread and butter pickles. I have made a batch of them too, though.
We didn’t get any tomatoes a few years ago because we had really hot weather when the tomatoes were budding, and they didn’t set fruit. This year we have plenty of tomatoes, but the squirrels have been feasting on them – even eating the green ones. Grrrr! Anyway I love a salad like this. I do have my own cukes and make something similar – usually with tomatoes! I should try your onion idea. Good stuff – thanks.
Tell me how it is with real tomatoes.
My grandmother used to have pickled cucumbers on the dinner table every single day throughout the summer. Yum, I love them. Strange about the tomatoes. Any idea why they don’t do well?
We’ve had lots of rain and an unusually cooler summer, ?????
I could eat these by the bowlful!
Have done that.
I adore marinated veggies – and these look awesome!
Thanks, Sarah.
This is a southern staple. My cukes did not do well, my mother in law gave me a whole bunch and I canned them. What I didn’t can I marinated. Thanks for giving me another recipe to enjoy.
Sorry about your cucumbers. Mine seem to have acquired mites overnight.