Cool as a Cucumber Salad 🥗

It's starting to heat up in the Northern Hemisphere. Sunday was grocery shopping, and I was starting to wilt from the heat. Fortunately, after we got home, I had the necessary ingredients to toss a salad.

Gather your coolest vegetables and get chopping!

At least 1 large cucumber
At least 1 large avocado
The equivalent of 1-2 medium tomatoes
Greek olives
Fresh white mushrooms
Parsley
Salt
About 1/2 cup vinaigrette of some sort (I assembled some from the oil at the bottom of the bucket of marinated cheese balls and a mix of vinegars and herbs, plus a prepared balsamic vinaigrette)
Dill
Chopped salami, ham, cheese, or something
A sprinkle of MSG if you want
Capers if you want

Mince parsley.
Halve olives.
Chop everything into easily forkable chunks.
Stir together.

Let sit in the refrigerator 5-10 minutes to let the flavors start to come together.

Serve on its own, or over something that needs flavor, like pasta or rice.


alexseanchai: I do not understand why this salad is food
alexseanchai: divide by avocado error, please reboot and retry


If the avocado content were lower, it would keep better. Despite all the vinegar it was a bit mushy by lunch.

If you enjoy bell peppers/capsicums, they are the kind of juicy and tangy thing that would be delicious in this if you like them. (I will never make this variation, because they taste like painful abdominal cramps.)

Other ideas: fresh corn kernels, baby corn, water chestnuts, steamed broccoli stalks.