Comments on: Cucumber Salad in Two Grandmotherly Styles

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:01:48 +0000

Thanks, everyone!

arfi – I’m really starting to get into Indonesian cooking, actually.

Lyra – That sounds fascinating. What’s the recipe?

toadberry – No worries, I enjoy seeing your comments pop up!

By: toadberry

toadberry — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:41:58 +0000

When I was growing up in Hungary we used the same dressing for everything, cucumbers, lettuce, sliced tomatoes with sliced yellow peppers. It was made of water and vinegar as you say, but we also added a bit of sugar.

PS. Danielle, I’m not stalking you, just getting addicted to your blog. :)

By: Lyra

Lyra — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:33:06 +0000

My Pennsylvania German (Pennsylvania Dutch to most) Grandmother always made a cucumber salad with milk and vinegar which my Dad and now I make. Its hard to convince others to eat it since it contains both milk and vinegar, which curdles the milk, of course, but its delicious so I dont mind eating it myself.

By: Zsofi

Zsofi — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:48:52 +0000

Hi Danielle,
very authentic.now this is exactly the salad that is on every single restaurant menu during summer in Budapest. (With some paprikás csirke of course:)

By: ann

ann — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:38:53 +0000

“anything but heinz”
that cracks me up! any reason why?
i love cucumber salads too. Your Ima’s is a lot like my gramma’s except hers doesn’t have paprika, it has dill.
thanks for these variations.

By: mr.ed

mr.ed — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:37:55 +0000

This recipe, or one similar was almost the only vegetable Dave’s grandfather Sandy would eat voluntarily. Anything else he had been served “at lunch.”

By: arfi

arfi — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:16:59 +0000

Unfortunately, we don’t grow cucumbers in our garden, so I miss them a lot. Cucumbers are used a lot in Indonesian dishes, eaten raw or stir-fried. I just love to see your salad. Makes me craving for cucumbers! Oh, NO!

By: Kristen

Kristen — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:53:49 +0000

I love those salads, but more importantly I can’t get over those gorgeous bowls. Wow!

By: cindy

cindy — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:42:49 +0000

the glass bowls are all great! i have to admit i had to scroll through first and look at them, and then went back and read through! (sorry! they were just too beautiful!) the cucumber and sour cream one sounds luscious!

By: Rasa Malaysia

Rasa Malaysia — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 06:25:57 +0000

I love those two little flower buds thingy as your garnish, they are tooo adorable. I just love spring/summer where we can just pluck the flowers in the garden and use them for garnishing. Hehe.