Taco-Cucumber Salad

"I'm living in France right now, and my parents sent me a care package including taco seasoning mix! Tonight I was trying to figure out what to do with the 2 cucumbers someone sold me by mistake (I guess when you run out of courgettes you just sell cucumbers?!?!) because I'm not a big cucumber fan. I figured it couldn't hurt. Mmm. Tangy. Warning: do not try this if you don't like sour. I didn't add any sugar at all. Warning 2: I don't measure, I eyeball. I'll list ingredients, but it's up to you how much to add."
 
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Ready In:
5mins
Ingredients:
3
Serves:
2
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ingredients

  • 2 cucumbers (burpless, if possible)
  • 1 tablespoon taco seasoning mix
  • 12 lemon, juice of
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directions

  • Peel and slice cucumbers very thinly. Oscar Wilde-style thin, people.
  • Add taco mix and lemon juice.
  • Mix. Chill. Enjoy.

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Reviews

  1. Yum.. i like to halve the cucumber first depending on the size. Better portions. thanks!
     
  2. We love lemon on our cucumbers, so this wasn't tart or sour for us. I used half the taco seasoning, but it was still plenty. This would make a nice side dish for tacos or a taco like dish.
     
  3. We have a garden full of cucumbers. This was a pretty neat way to make them. You are right! These suckers are sour! Then there was the small bit of heat from the taco seasoning. I thought these 3 simple ingredients mixed very nice. Thanks!! :)
     
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I am a graduate student living, teaching, and studying in France for a year. I love cooking, especially baking, but I don't agree with all that jazz about how you need to be SOOOO careful with your ingredients and measuring and all that when baking. If I were making a millefeuille, yeah, I'd be freaked, but cookies and cakes and muffins are no biggie. Who cares if you don't beat it exactly two minutes? Argh, renegade cook! I have a very beaten, battered copy of Jane Garmey's fab Great British Cooking, although I just cannot bring myself to do the lard recipes (like half the book!). It really rocks, though. I love languages and I hate it when people think they are hot stuff in another language (I'm talking to YOU, Alex Trebeck!!!) but aren't. Actually I just dislike pretentious people altogether. That includes YOU, yes YOU, the American Tourist who bumps into me (American Incognita) on the streets of Paris (which is in FRANCE, remember) and says "Sorry." Sorry? Couldn't we just say Pardon with a French accent? geesh. Also, yelling in English at people does not comprehension make. I also have a major celeb crush on Anthony Bourdain. I think it's that whole bad-boy good-girl thing. Plus he's half-French. And majorly witty. Am on the lookout for him, but he's probably reclining in a palm frond beach chair in Tahiti filming an episode. Sigh.
 
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