Cooking With Steve And Kim: Cucumber

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

ORIENTAL SHRIMP SALAD

Image by adactio via FlickrTo love Oriental Salads is to live life to it's fullest. Here's a recipe that will allow you to do just that. Oriental Shrimp Salad to die for.

INGREDIENTS:

4 cups of chicken broth or canned broth if you must
1 8-ounce package of buckwheat (soba) noodles
3 cups of fresh spinach leaves
3 cups of Bibb lettuce
2/3 pound of medium prawsn, cooked, shelled and deveined
1/2 pound of snow peas steamed 2 to 3 minutes or until crisp-tender
1/2 pound fresh asparagus, steamed 3-4 minutes or until barely tender
3 carrots, sliced diagonally into 4 or 5 pieces and steamed 3-4 minutes or until crisp-tender
1/2 English cucumber, peeled and thinly sliced
1 small bunch of radishes, trimmed and thinly sliced
1/2 cup canned water chestnuts, drained
Wasabi Vinaigrette

PREPARATION:

In a medium saucepan, bring chicken broth to a boil. Add noodles and boil 5-7 minutes or until noodles are tender.
Drain
Arrange spinach and lettuce leaves over chilled salad plates. Mound noodles to one side of each plate. Arrange prawns next to noodles. Surround with snow peas, asparagus, carrots and cucumber. Garnish with radishes and water chestnuts. Serve hot or cold with Wasabi Vinaigrette.

Now wasn't that simple? And just wait until you taste it... oh so good.
Steve and Kim

Saturday, July 9, 2011

CUCUMBER BITES

Fresh from the garden treats in the heat of the summer are refreshing and tasty. Here's a simple recipe that you'll enjoy long into the cooler days of Fall.

INGREDIENTS:
1 loaf of sliced coctail rye bread
1 16 ounce package of cream cheese
1 package of dry Italian salad dressing mix
2 medium sized fresh cucumbers, sliced
Dillweed

PREPARATION:
Spread the cream cheese mixture on bread slices, top with cucumber slice and sprinkle everything with dillweed.

Simple, tasty and good for you all at the same time.
Enjoy
Steve & Kim

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Cucumbers, A Great Way To Cleanse and Beautify Your Skin

Image via Wikipedia

Eating a cucumber is like drinking a glass of water. Bearing in mind that 96% of its weight is water, a 250-g cucumber contains 240 g of water. However this does not mean that it is of little nutritional value. Those 10 grams of solid material in a 250-g cucumber are of great biological value and healing power.

Eating cucumbers for most people is way to induce several healthy outcomes. For example;

1. Cucumbers are a great diuretic. They increase urine output.
2. As a laxative they can't be beat. Given their weight in water content (96%) they facilitate the movement of the feces through the intestine.

Most people are not aware of the other great things about the cucumber.

1. Skin conditions: Cucumbers hydrate the skin and provide the sulfur needed for healthy skin cells, nails and hair. At the same time, they "cleanse" the bloodstream of toxic wastes. They are recommended for all who are suffering from eczema, dermatosis and psoriasis. Applied directly on the skin, cucumbers are an effective beauty treatment.

The best results are obtained by combining cucumbers' internal properties and their external effect on the skin. This is done by:

1. Rubbing it directly on the skin.
2. Preparing thin slices and placing them on affected skin areas.

Cucumbers also help with obesity problems because they contain few calories and produce a certain feeling of satiety.

For anyone with diabetes the cucumber can be eaten often because of their low carbohydrate content while providing a certain amount of vitamins and minerals.

So, next time you want to eat healthy and cleanse and beautify your skin try a cucumber treatment. Inside and out you won't be sorry you did.

Steve and Kim
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