This recipe for Okra Cornbread Fritters is a decade old, but it’s still delicious.
Cucumbers
(2021) Cucumber Basil Gazpacho
I think it was last week I shared a quick tomato gazpacho recipe. Here’s one from Aluma Farm that’s a cucumber version. I’m going to use yogurt and I’m sure it will remind me of tzatziki sauce. I love the combination of yogurt and cucumbers, but had never considered making it into a soup. Farmers do the smartest things with their produce.
(2021) Speedy Summer Gazpacho
For a recipe that won’t heat up the kitchen, I’m considering this easy gazpacho published in a story called “Eat to Beat Illness” by Rupy Aujla. It calls for a few more tomatoes that were in the box, but …. you could use some cherry tomatoes, you could just cut down on tomatoes, or maybe just like me, you bought some tomatoes last weekend at a farmers market and have a few to spare. The proportion of ingredients is totally up to you and what’s sitting on your counter. The recipe calls for serving right from the food processor, but I’m going to chill mine before serving. Which I guess defeats the “speedy” of the title, but I just like my gazpacho cold!
(2021) Kachumber Cooler
This one from Smittn Kitchen. We were away at the beach last week so missed the late June box, but I’ve enjoyed the cucumber lemonade recipe I shared two weeks ago over and over again.
To make simple syrup, heat 1 tablespoon water with 2 tablespoons sugar, stirring, just until the sugar dissolves. Pour into cup or bowl and 1 tablespoon ice-cold water to cool it somewhat, then chill in the fridge until needed. Scale up as needed. Leftovers keep in fridge.
(2021) Cucumber Lemonade
I just found this recipe but didn’t make a note of the source. So sorry not to be giving it proper attribution.
(2021) Salt-and-Squeeze Slaw
That bok choy may be stumping you. For some of us, it’s a challenge to come up ideas several weeks in a row. I dug out this old recipe from Bon Appetit – a salt-and-squeeze slaw. You could use almost anything in today’s box. The recipe is down below.
(2020) Smacked Cucumber ‘Quick Kimchi’
From the New York Times
(2020) Sichuan-Style Smashed Cucumber Salad
from Serious Eats
(2020) Aluma Farm’s Veggie Pickles
Love that the Aluma Farm recipe helps you understand how much brine to make, depending on how many pickles you’re putting up. Really helpful for those of us pickling on the fly.
(2020) No Cook Refrigerator Pickles
This one was published in the Farmers and Consumers Market Bulletin from the Georgia Department of Agriculture but I don’t remember when! It calls for onions, but I like making it with rounds of zucchini or yellow squash, and maybe some sticks of green onion for that onion flavor.