Dear friend Pat sent me this recipe.  It is originally from the Food Network’s Cooking Live show.  Sweet Mother of Pearl!  Cucumber Salsa is now my new favorite recipe for cucumbers and tomatoes.  I honestly would call this a salad rather than a salsa, but let’s go with what the original recipe called it.  When the […]

I read a version of this recipe – Mango Cucumber Salad – on Mennonite Girls Can Cook’s blog this week and could not wait to try it.  Mainly I wanted to make it because Ever-Lovin’ likes mangos, and I was trying to impress him on Father’s Day.  He declared this salad “good stuff” – which […]

It seems impossible to have an English tea party or any tea party for that matter without having cucumber sandwiches.  I have had cucumber sandwiches so many different ways, and have loved most of them. This is a no frills recipe, and I love it. It is the recipe for the Basic Butter Spread (from […]