Welcome to my Blog

Hi, my name is Suanne and I am writing this blog to share some of the tips and recipes I have learned or created with our backyard garden. The garden itself is actually my husband John's but we have had a garden for over 25 years so I have picked up some garden knowledge along the way. We live in Austin, Texas so we are blessed with a year long growing season. We always have something to eat from the garden and this pretty much dictates what we eat. All of our meals are planned around what happens to be growing at the time. One of the biggest challenges is what I like to call crop maintenance. What to do with all of the vegetables? Beyond sharing with the neighbors and friends I am always trying creative approaches to preparing the bounty. So the blog seemed like a good way to both keep track of and share my recipes.

Monday, June 7, 2010

Cucumber Recipes

Well we have tons of cucumbers right now so here is one of my favorite recipes.


Cucumber Cream salad


I used to use sour cream for this but it works equally well to use greek yogurt or a combination of yogurt and sour cream.

2 -3 cucumbers peeled seeds removed and sliced.
1 cup sour cream or yogurt or half of each. You can also use low fat versions of both sour cream and plain yogurt.
2 teaspoons chopped dill
Juice of one lemon
1 onion (red or sweet white onion) about 1/2 cup chopped
salt and pepper to taste.

Mix all ingredients except cucumber together. Then add cucumber and mix.

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