30 Ways To Use Those Never-ending Cucumbers
We love these veggies that are 90% water! However, as any home gardener knows, cucumbers tend to multiply rapidly. Here are 30 different ways to use up those cool, crisp cukes.
- Peel, slice, and freeze them to use keep your smoothies cold without using ice throughout the year.
- Cold cucumber soup.
- Make batches of delicious refrigerator pickles for all of your neighbors.
- Donate them to a local food bank.
- Cucumber shrub.
- Set up a cucumber-infused water cooler at work.
- Use them up for pest control.
- Cucumber stir fry.
- Batter and fry them, State Fair style.
- Experiment with fermented cucumber kimchi.
- Apple cucumber chutney (it tastes better than it looks).
- Give them away to your friends.
- GAZPACHO.
- Return them from whence they came by composting them back into your garden soil.
- Two words: Cucumber Granita.
- Blend them, strain the juice, and make a mixer (add soda water, sugar, and spirit of your choosing).
- Build the perfect cucumber sandwich.
- Cucumber infused vodka.
- Get rid of that bad breath – hold a slice of cucumber between your tongue and the roof of your mouth for about 90 seconds.
- Cucumbers are good for chickens – find a local farm or urban homesteader to donate them to.
- Marinate them.
- Spiralize them for cucumber spaghetti – the kids will love it!
- Cucumber salsa.
- Carve them into edible cucumber cups for your next party.
- Put them in salads.
- Cucumber pizza.
- Make cucumber puree, freeze in cubes, and enjoy cucumber margaritas all summer long.
- Tzatziki.
- Plan a spa night – cucumbers are full of antioxidants.
- Cucumber ice-pops.