Lettuce, cucumber and tomato.

Yikes

If you are feeling particularly adventurous, I'd recommend SOUP! I did two separate Google searches on "lettuce soup" and "cucumber soup" and got some really interesting results. Also, gazpacho will address both your cucumbers AND your tomatoes!

Using the lettuce as a wrapper for a roll-up snack or appetizer is nice, too. After all, what are sushi, dolma, and holopchi, but stuff wrapped up in a leaf!? I'd keep this as a cold dish, but that's just my preference.

If you do decide to go the salad route, here are some of my favourite ways to fancy up a salad:

- Sprouts (radish and mustard are good for some zing!)
- Nuts (almonds, cashews, walnuts, pecans, pine nuts if you can afford them)
- Seeds (sunflower, sesame, poppy)
- Cheese (anything crumbly and reasonably strong-flavoured)
- Black olives
- Fruit (tinned mandarin orange sections, sushi ginger, chopped apple, halved grapes, strawberries, dried fruit (e.g., raisins, chopped dates or figs, dried berries) -- A fruity dressing is nice, too -- if I'm feeling lazy, I'll just take a bit of jam or marmalade, a drop of oil, a bit of citrus juice or balsamic vinegar, and shake it all up -- adding sesame or poppy seeds to the dressing is a nice way to get them into the salad.

Good luck with it! I'll be interested to know what you tried, and how it turned out!

Gingham_Ribbon

My toddler and his friend scoffed half the tomatoes today while playing in the garden. But I'm off to experiment now. I meant to get a cabbage this morning when I went shopping (at 6am cos I couldn't sleep) but I forgot. I did manage to get some spring onions though.

I think I'll make some hummous tomorrow and use carrot, lettuce and cucumber as crudites. But tonight it's just going to be a big bowl of salad with home made pizza.

HopeElizzy

We had veggie chilli, guacamole and chopped salad for dinner tonight.
I put tomato in with the onion, avocado, lemon juice and creme fraiche to make the guacamole. Also used tomato, cucumber,celery, apple and banana all chopped small and combined with a spoon of mayo to make the salad. The littlies love this salad and it means they eat all of it looking for their favourite bit which is the banana!;)

Gingham_Ribbon

That sounds lovely!

I made it! I'm so pleased with it, I've brought the bowl upstairs so I can eat and type. I tore up the lettuce, roughly chopped the cucumber, grated a carrot and chopped some spring onion. Then I added some parmesan (using the veg peeler) and sprinkled some onion seeds on top with some crushed sea salt.

I'm all inspired. DH likes it but says I added too much salt. (I never use salt and had to fetch it out of the cleaning cupboard.) But I like it with the salt on. Feels very snackish. Salty and crunchy like a crisps substitute. LOL

MATH

Anne_Marie wrote:

I like to make a wee bowl of salad up with a lot my food, whether it be pizza or pasta, mexican...........:D

Hehehe I do this too. The MATHLETTS hate me for it and if there is any left they get it in this lunch boxes:rotfl:. I keep tossed salad bowls for the spring and summer months. During the winter months I like to do a 1950's OS plated salad like my Grandmother used to make served with sliced ham, pork pie, scotch eggs, pickles, boiled beetroot, hot new pots, crusty bread and a pile of ready salted crisps. YUM YUM!

Gingham_Ribbon

Organic cucumber is MUCH less watery than the stuff I've eaten in the past. Very pleasant.

Gingham_Ribbon

Well, I tried seeds, fruit and ricotta cheese in it tonight.

I am hoping I get lettuce, tomato and cucumber next week too.:j

Mirtos

well done! I'm so hungry now, i'm off for a gigantic sald fest!

Gingham_Ribbon

I'm having carrot and home made hummous now.

Loving the veg box.

Debt_Free_Chick

Gingham_Ribbon wrote:

Organic cucumber is MUCH less watery than the stuff I've eaten in the past. Very pleasant.

It really shouldn't be anything to do with organic or not

A ridge cucumber is grown outdoors (or probably in a polytunnel at this time of year) and it's a slightly different "species".

I only grow ridge cukes and they are much firmer - yes, less water. Hothouse (Greenhouse) cukes do take on more water and have a lower "cucumber" taste.

Ridge every time for me ... very difficult to find in a supermarket.

I grow "Marketmore" - not the best, but very easy and very successful