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- Editors' Picks (these are the ones we've tested -- congratulations!)
- Chilled Cucumber Soup with Yogurt and Fresh Mint
- Tangy Creamy Buttermilk Cucumbers
- Cucumber and Fennel Meze
- Spicy Smoky Sour Cucumber Salad
- Zesty Cucumber Salsa
- It's Hot to be Cool Thai-Inspired Cucumber Salad
- Preserved Lemon and Thyme x 2 Grilled Steak
- Warm Grilled Lobster Salad with lemon thyme butter
- Shish Taouk with Toum (Garlic Sauce)
- Editors' Pick Candidates (these are the ones we want you to test)
- Grilled Lemon Chicken with Feta Dressing on Grilled Thyme Bread
- Grilled Grape Leaves Stuffed with Lemony Goat Cheese
- Grilled Pluots over Lemon-Thyme Shortcakes with a Honey-Thyme Caramel Sauce
- Grilled Meyer Lemon Pizza with Chicken, Goat Cheese and Thyme
- Grilled Lemon cake with strawberries and lemon thyme cream
- Grilled Haddock Stuffed with Lemon and Herbs
- Fish Parcels Wrapped in Grape Leaves
- Lemon Steaks with Thyme Butter
- Peaches-n-Herb
- Lobster in Distress with Lemon and Thyme
- Grilled Double-Cut Lamb Chops, Garlic Herb Butter, Garlic Mashed Potatoes
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- Cucumber-Mint Ice Cream
- Cucumber Pachadi
- Cucumber, Dandelion and Barley Salad with Ume Shiso Dressing
- Grilled Ahi with Cucumber Radish Sauce
- Cucumber and Watermelon Salsa
- Lacto-Fermented Pickles with Garlic Scapes
- Felly's Favorite Panzanella with Burrata
- Screaming Viking
- Spicy Cucumber Quick Pickles
- Lime Cucumber Liquado
- Cucumber Blueberry Mint Smoothie
- Cucumber Agua Fresca
- Pickled Baby Cukes
- Cucumber and Watermelon Gazpacho
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45 Comments
AntoniaJames
June 18, 2010
Those Grilled Double-Cut Lamb Chops, Garlic Herb Butter, Garlic Mashed Potatoes look out of this world. My boys are both home for the summer, and I'm still contemplating a "big" weekend meal, so if no one else wants these, I'd love to try them. ;o)
TheWimpyVegetarian
June 18, 2010
If y'all are holding back on the grilled pluots, you can use plums just as well in the recipe....
Food52
June 18, 2010
To everyone offering to do a second test: thank you, thank you, thank you! We will give new folks till 5pm ET to call them and otherwise they're all yours.
drbabs
June 18, 2010
If no one else wants it, I'll take the grilled lemon cake with strawberries and lemon thyme cream.
Food52
June 18, 2010
UPDATE: The following recipes are still available for testing: Grilled Pluots over Lemon-Thyme Shortcakes with a Honey-Thyme Caramel Sauce; Grilled Meyer Lemon Pizza with Chicken, Goat Cheese and Thyme; Grilled Lemon cake with strawberries and lemon thyme cream; Grilled Haddock Stuffed with Lemon and Herbs; Lobster in Distress with Lemon and Thyme; Grilled Double-Cut Lamb Chops, Garlic Herb Butter, Garlic Mashed Potatoes; and Cucumber, Dandelion and Barley Salad with Ume Shiso Dressing
WinnieAb
June 18, 2010
I'll take the Cucumber, Dandelion and Barley Salad, too, if that's ok with you...
AntoniaJames
June 18, 2010
I'd be thrilled to make the Grilled Meyer Lemon Pizza with Chicken, Goat Cheese and Thyme. Thank you! ;o)
MrsWheelbarrow
June 17, 2010
Anything left?
MrsWheelbarrow
June 17, 2010
Fantastic! Pickling cukes are looking great at the farmers markets. I'll take Lacto Fermented Pickles.
AntoniaJames
June 17, 2010
I also plan to make these, too, and will leave comments. Already have the cukes, but have been tied up in meetings all week, out of the office, driving more hours in the day than I'd like, etc., so these are on the agenda for Saturday, if I can't make them tomorrow. So looking forward to making, and eating, them!! ;o)
drbabs
June 17, 2010
Winnie, I also plan to make them, but I want to wait till we have really good cucumbers.
WinnieAb
June 17, 2010
MrsW: They take a few days of sitting on the counter in the jar to be ready, so for testing purposes, I'd get them started tomorrow, if possible.
And thanks AJ and drbabs for trying them, too, whenever it may be ;)
And thanks AJ and drbabs for trying them, too, whenever it may be ;)
pauljoseph
June 17, 2010
Try A pachadi
Pachadi is a south-indian raita with coconut and green chillies
Pachadi is a south-indian raita with coconut and green chillies
AntoniaJames
June 17, 2010
I will very happily try the cucumber mint ice cream! Lucky me!! Thank you. ;o)
Lizthechef
June 17, 2010
Lucky you, indeed - looks good and I'm wondering which of the suggestions you will adopt in your version..
AntoniaJames
June 17, 2010
Ahhh, when doing my laps this evening, I came up with several wicked new ways to use this ice cream . . . . I plan to try it without the white chocolate, whose cloying sweetness ruins (to my mind) anything you put it in. So, I'll make the basic recipe .. . but what happens next, well, you'll just have to wait until next week to find out. ;o)
EmilyNunn
June 17, 2010
fish in grape leaves from Clintonhillbilly, for me. So many amazing recipes this week!
dymnyno
June 17, 2010
I would like to try the stuffed grape leaves with lemony feta...I have plenty of tender young grape leaves.
annalea
June 17, 2010
I will test Felly's Favorite Panzanella with Burrata - I need to take a dish to a birthday bbq this weekend and this sounds perfect. Thanks!
Lizthechef
June 17, 2010
Screaming Viking - how can I resist? Think I'm ready for one of these right now...
Amber O.
June 17, 2010
Grilled Lemon Chicken with Feta Dressing on Grilled Thyme Bread sounds like a perfect recipe for me to test!
AntoniaJames
June 17, 2010
I will very happily try the Cucumber Pachadi, please!! Thank you. ;o)
AntoniaJames
June 17, 2010
Okay, no worries. In a comment above, I selected the cucumber mint ice cream. I plan to make the Pachadi anyway -- always looking for new condiments with Indian spices, given how often we eat spiced dal and similar scrumptious dishes around here -- so I'll comment on it, too! ;o)
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