CUCUMBER SPREAD Recipe

Slice a cucumber, leaving skin on, into 1/4 to 1/2 inch slices. Use a small cookie cutter to create garnishments for your salad or entrée.

Cucumbers balls are a great garnish for salads or desserts. Begin by slicing the cucumber in half. The seeds should remain in the cucumber for sufficient flesh. With a melon baller, make balls with the flesh of the cucumber.

Long, thin and narrow, this variety of vegetable is a common type of cucumber grown for the digestive qualities it contains.

A food spread that is made from roasted sweet peppers, which can use any variety of sweet pepper as the base for the spread.

A food spread typically made with Italian black olives that are pureed and mixed with olive oil and black pepper.

An oil that is extracted from the seeds or nuts of vegetable plants, such as corn, soybeans, peanuts, safflower seeds, sunflower seeds, and rape seeds (used for canola oil), that is turned into a spreadable form of margarine to be used as a replacement for butter.

A long, cylinder shaped vegetable of the gourd family that has rounded ends and grows on a creeping type of plant.