It's Cucumber Time! Ideas?

[kayb]

Two standards: 

 

1. Cucumbers and onion (and cauliflower and par-boiled carrots, if I get ambitious) in cider vinegar with sugar, white papper and coriander.

 

2. Just cucumbers in rice vinegar, mirin, a dab of hone, grated ginger (lots) and soy sauce. A dash or two of Sriracha to perk it up. (Edamame is also good like this.)

[Beebs]

My usual way is roll cut or smacked cukes, big dollop of hot chili oil or Lao Gan Ma, soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, Chinese black vinegar, bit of sugar. This sauce is also good on cold tofu. 

 

I've also been enjoying it dressed with gochugaru (Korean pepper flakes), minced garlic, green onions, toasted sesame oil, soy or fish sauce, bit of rice vinegar and sugar, sesame seeds. 

 

One of these will be tonight's dinner!

[lindag]

I bought a bag of pickling cucumbers (for eating), is there a preferred way to store them so they don't go slimy?

[weinoo]

18 minutes ago, lindag said:

I bought a bag of pickling cucumbers (for eating), is there a preferred way to store them so they don't go slimy?

 

As I do with herbs and a bunch of other produce stuff (scallions, leeks, greens), I remove them from original packaging, dry them off, wrap them individually in paper towels, and they go into a zip lock bag that way.