Marinated Cucumber Salad

[Guest guest]

Marinated Cucumber Salad

 

1/2 cup Italian dressing (low-calorie)

1/8 teaspoon pepper

1 medium cucumber, peeled and thinly sliced

1/4 cup radishes, thinly sliced

2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped

 

Combine Italian dressing and pepper in a medium bowl; stir well. Add

cucumber, onion, radishes, and parsley. Toss gently to coat.

Cover and marinate in refrigerator for at least 4 hours.

 

Servings: 5

Calories: 21

Protein: Trace g

Sodium: 5 mg

Fat: Trace g

Carbohydrates: 4 g

Exchanges: Free

[Guest guest]

A variation on that theme:

*Quickles*

 

This was one of my favorite dishes as a kid. Like corn on the cob, marinated

cucumbers mean it's summertime. When my husband tasted them he dubbed them

Quickles, which is a perfect name for them, because that's exactly what they

are.

 

1/3 cup *distilled white vinegar*

2 T *water*

2 T *sugar*

1 T finely chopped *fresh dill* (more is OK)

2 tsp *salt*

1/8 tsp freshly *ground white pepper*

3 medium *cukes*, peeled, sliced very thin

(thinly sliced sweet *onions*)

 

Whisk all ingredients until sugar dissolves. Toss cukes and refrigerate

covered at least four hours.

 

Note that if you have a mandoline slicer (or a fake one, like I do, but

which seems to work just as well as the ones that cost several hundred

bucks), slicing will be a lot speedier. Plus, the thinner the slices the

better. You can slice the onion on the mandonline, too.

 

 

On 10/19/05, PunkinPie68 <PunkinPie68 wrote:

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[Guest guest]

Hey, Craige, a family friend I know used to put all sorts of stuff in

a brine like that - drained baby corn, cauliflower, mushrooms...