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My husband and I used to get all of our vegetables from a lady who lived down the road from our cottage. It's too much work for her now to keep a garden for selling vegetables, so now she just grows enough for her family. Occasionally she has a glut of something and she will put a sign out by the road indicating what she has on offer. This year my daughter dropped in when the sign went up for fresh garlic. She had 8 dollars in her pocket, and came away with 24 heads of garlic.

Then my husband called me and said he had dropped in because there was a sign for cucumbers, did I want any? Of course I did. However, I didn't expect to find myself faced with a bag of 20 cucumbers. Just imagine it in your mind, 20 cucumbers on your kitchen counter and you are going to have to eat them all. The only thing to do was to find some recipes where cucumber was the main ingredient. This recipe originally calls for mint, but I find mint a bit overpowering in salads, so I ended up using cilantro instead. I know a lot of people find it overpowering, but I guess I just prefer it's taste to mint. Use whichever one you prefer.

This recipe is from the website Kalyn's Kitchen.

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