I bought five different cucumber seedlings a few months back and got them planted in the tunnelhouse and wow!! In the last week they have all taken off, with lots of growth…

So far I’ve harvested six big cucumbers from them – gave half them to my sister.. But interesting how in the photo above, the two you can see forming were the size of my little finger only 2 days ago – you can almsot see them grow in real time….

Apart from using them in salads, having lots available is making me research other recipes and uses… I was remidned of having this entree in Osaka: cucumber with bonito & sesame

And I saw this set of recipes posted by some nutrition spammer:

Please let me know if you have a fave use for cucumbers? I also have a gherkin plant thats producing now, so some pickle or relish is going to be happening with them… One tip for recipes I heard of ages ago is that any time you are in a small town junk store, check their book section for old community cookbooks as they often have classic old school recipes… When we were sorting out my parents home, I put my hand up for all of my Mums old cook books and some of them fall into that category – Plunket or community group fundraiser books, and the recipes are classic!

Its funny – one of the cookbooks has a section called – ‘Invalid Cookery’ and I started reading it, wondering what had invalidated these recipes (thinking invalid as cancel) – too much Internet, of course it means invalid as an ill or recovering person.

Here are some cucumber recipes from Mums cookbooks:

old school recipes from NZ in the 1960s and 1970s
will try them out!