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Recipe Club: Cool As A Cucumber!
Date: August 9 - August 13, 2004
Guest Host: David Nelson
Theme: Cool as a Cucumber - Monday: Cucumber Salad with Spicy Wasabi Dressing, Cucumber-Avocado Soup, Whole Barbecue Salmon with Cucumber Dill Sauce.
- Tuesday: Watermelon-Cucumber Salad, Chilled Cucumber, Yogurt and Mint Soup, Shrimp and Cucumber Stir-Fry.
- Wednesday: Gazpacho Salad, Cucumber Filled with Avocado Pesto, Fish Tacos with Cucumber Salsa.
- Thursday: Thai Cucumber Salad, Chinese Radish-Cucumber Salad, Thai Fish Cakes with Cucumber Sauce.
- Friday: Crab and Cucumber Rolls, Dilled Cucumber Dressing, Grilled Halibut with Tomato, Cucumber, and Lemon Sauce.
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Cucumber Salad with Spicy Wasabi Dressing
Makes 4 servings
Ingredients: 1 1/2 teaspoons dry wasabi (or to taste)
2 cucumbers
2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
2 teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoon sesame oil
salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 scallions, thinly sliced
1 tablespoon black or toasted white sesame seeds
Preparation:
Mix the wasabi with 1/2 teaspoon warm water in the bottom of a mixing bowl and let it stand for 5 minutes.
Peel the cucumbers, cut each one in half lengthwise, and use a melon baller or spoon to scoop out the seeds. Cut the cucumbers width-wise into 1/4-inch crescents.
Add the vinegar and sugar to the wasabi and whisk until smooth. Whisk in the sesame oil, salt, and pepper. Just before serving, add the cucumbers, scallions, and sesame seeds to the dressing and mix well.
Is a Cucumber a Fruit or a Vegetable?
It is technically a fruit. From a botanical perspective, a fruit is the mature ovary of a plant, such as an apple, melon, cucumber, or tomato. From the common, every day "grocery store perspective," we tend to use the word fruit with respect to fruits eaten fresh as desserts - apples, peaches, cherries, etc. - and not to items cooked or used in salads. So, cucumbers tend to be lumped in with vegetables because of the way they are used (cooked and in salads), but botanists will call them fruits because they develop from the reproductive structures of plants.
From the Cornell Department of Horticulture. |
