Since I’ve had to go back to my So Not Organized blog twice now for the recipe, I decided to just add it over here. Hindsight is 20/20 and all that but if I could go back, I’d have stayed on my path to slowly just repost my favorite blog posts here instead of trying to transfer it over to the free word press version in one swoop. The content is still there but all my photos from many years of blogging: gone. SIGH.
Wait, did I say something about a recipe? Yes. It’s a simple one, too. I think everyone has a version of cucumber salad. This is mine. Actually, it’s my late mother-in-law’s recipe as it was usually on the table at any summer family dinner. I loved it and still do. G likes it as well and actually requested it again.
So, once again here is (with brand new updated photos!):
Cucumber Salad
Just four ingredients needed: cucumbers, fresh from the garden if you have some! Thinly sliced red onion. Rice vinegar. And sugar.
I was chatting with an older gentleman in the store a few weeks ago and he said they made their cucumber salad with apple cider vinegar. I’m not so sure about that. Might be because it makes me think of fruit fly traps. Rice vinegar is our go to here.
The basic steps:
Thinly slice cucumbers. I peel mine though sometimes if I feel fancy I leave stripes of the peel.
I bought this last year and I love it! All the tools (mandoline, two different size graters, and the guard) store inside it. And it’s dishwasher safe. OXO Good Grips Mini Complete Grate and Slice Kit. 
(Note: I’m not an Amazon affiliate and get no sort of credit for sharing this, just something I like and thought you might as well.)
Place the sliced cucumbers in the a shallow container.
Layer with the thinly sliced red onion (mine is a bit too thick here but we pick around it anyway).
Mix together rice vinegar and sugar. One cup of each. Pour over layered cucumber and red onion slices.
It’s okay if some onion slices are poking up above the liquid but the cucumbers should be covered. Finally, the hard part. Wait several hours to let flavors set in and mingle.
No judgement here if you find yourself getting a fork and eating this straight out of the container when nobody is looking. Do you have a version of cucumber salad?
This is the basic recipe that I found somewhere, and tried for the first time, this summer, except the recipe that I found calls for red wine vinegar instead of rice vinegar. Either way, is good, I’m sure. In fact, so good that I’ll never go back to my old recipe! Sorry about losing your pictures. Glad you still have the basic posts, though. Maybe some of the old pictures are still hanging around on your computer somewhere or on an old card perhaps? Hope your week is going well. Happy last day of August!
Red wine vinegar sounds like it would be interesting. The old pictures might be on the computer in a zip file (what I used to transfer it). Maybe I’ll check or have one of the boys help me. Thanks for the idea. Hope you’ve had a great last week of August/First of September. Your favorite season is almost here 🙂 Of course, it’s still hot so hard to get too excited yet. Have a great weekend!
I do alot of transferring content from one blog to another. I just copy the entire page, pics and all and paste to another blog. It is so easy. I ran out of storage space on the free version of WordPress. So I created another blog with blogspot. Unlimited storage. I copied all my content page for page and pasted it onto blogspot. Now, i post on blogspot and transfer to WordPress for my followers there. There is a difference copying and pasting then uploading photos. Maybe you can do that and transfer over.
My original blog is gone now so that’s not an option though I might have it on a zip file as I used the Word press stuff to transfer it. Thanks for the suggestion though. Hoping to not transfer to another blog any time soon. Have a great weekend!