And here I am with cucumber plants that have been going crazy and more than my wife and I can eat or preserve.
Oh no !It’s summer ! People are eating cucumbers (with soy sauce) and (frozen) tomatoes! Something broke the supply chain !
Ok, it’s time to spill those recipes; whose got’em?!
Cut cucumber in thin slices and put in a bowl. Mix the following: 2 tablespoons of water 2 tablespoons of vinegar (preferably apple cider) 1 tablespoon of sugar 0.5 teaspoon of salt 0.25 teaspoon of pepper
Pour it over the cucumber slices and leave it alone for 10-15 minutes.
The TikTok trend is roughly as follows:
- smash a cucumber and cut in chunks
- add salt, mix and put in the fridge for a while to remove some water from the cucumber
- rince
- make a sauce with soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic, fresh ginger
- add some topping, like green onions, sesame seed, wakame seeweed, pepper flakes, cilantro, crushed peanuts
smash ? like, slap the wall with it ? I can’t picture what this means (thanks for the recipe)
Maybe smash isn’t the right word (I’m not a native English speaker).
You put the cucumber on a cutting board, lay a large knife flat on it and strike the flat of the blade with the underside of your fist.
As someone who doesn’t use TikTok and was under the impression that it was a young person’s game, I did not expect the “trend” involving a notoriously phallic vegetable to be a recipe.
The article seems to be saying that despite some blaming TikTok, local experts are saying it’s not all because of TikTok.
