Cucumber Salad - Feast Your Eyes

by Nanette Maxim, Posted May 25th 2010 @ 10:00AM

Thirsty? Eat a cuke. Heat getting to you? Reach for a cuke. Puffy eyes? Throw a couple of chilled cucumber slices on your closed lids and you'll be puffy no more. Unless, of course, you're that Puffy. Liquid rich and with only 13 calories a cup, cucumbers are made for days when just the thought of a hot meal makes you sweat.

This cucumber salad, from blogger erincooks, is a simple combination -- her recipe calls for English cukes, red onion, dill, apple cider vinegar, sugar and water. Curtis Stone mixes cucumbers and dill as well, but in his recipe he uses olive oil and lemon juice. Gail Simmons is another cucumber fan, and in her recipe she pickles the cukes and pairs them with glazed salmon. You can also go tropical, as in this recipe, which throws in mangoes, avocado and cilantro. And so goes the daily prescription for keeping it cool.

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