Cucumber Cylinder Salad

What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? Uplifting Aromas: Cucumber Cylinder Salad! How do you turn a salad from Humdrum to Aha? Keep it interesting and appealing to the eye. Or, if you’re like me…..think portion control. My husband tells me all the time I cannot keep a salad small. If I begin with a larger bowl (so he can toss the ingredients once the dressing is applied), I inevitably add more “stuff” and end up with the same results: too much salad for the size of the bowl. Now I have the solution. The cucumber cylinder becomes the bowl, so to speak. Problem solved. I guess living with an engineer has its benefits. 

CUCUMBER CYLINDER SALAD

Ingredients:

1 English cucumber

1 cup shredded lettuce

6 cherry tomatoes, cut in half

1 slice of red onion, chopped 

1/4 cup parmesan cheese, hand grated

Pinch Italian herbs

Instructions:

Using a sharp knife, cut along the length of the cucumber using the middle elongated slices. Chop the reserved outer sections to add as filling on the salad. Place each elongated slice upright onto a salad plate; secure with a decorative pick. Fill each cylinder with shredded lettuce. Arrange cherry tomato halves and red onion pieces. Top with roughly grated parmesan cheese. Sprinkle with Italian seasonings. Serve with your choice of salad dressings. 

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  2. Looks so delicious and fresh! Oh, I wish we had fragrant, juicy, and delicious summer cucumbers in the store. The ones in the store now (it’s winter time here) are tasteless and terrible!

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