Cucumbers Boring? You’re Having a Laugh Mate

“You know what’s really boring?”, said my mate one evening whilst having a hot wings competition at Bunk on Stoney Street.

“What?”, I replied whilst wiping the sweat from my face after consuming another three hot chilli wings from the massive bowl of hot chilli wings we’d ordered for the competition.

“Cucumbers, their just fucking boring, I mean what can you do with a cucumber, or a zucchini or any other member of the cucurbit family when cooking?”

First off I was impressed he knew what genus and classification of family cucumbers belonged to, I mean ‘cucurbit’? (Although technically they belong to the Cucurbitaceous family, I Googled it).

Secondly he had a point I thought.

Apart from the obligatory side salad what the hell else could you do with a cucumber? (no pervs please)

I did some thinking and concluded actually I don’t think they are ‘fucking boring’.

I mean cucumbers are an important ingredient in some of my favourite foods, those foods that whisk you back to holidays in Greece, Turkey and the Med.

Just think about a lovely Greek Gyros.

Yes of course you may feel the dominant ingredient is that lovely fatty grilled pork, or maybe you feel the tzatziki sauce is the trump card in a full fat, mouth watering, deliciously greeky gyros bad boy.

But…….you ain’t looking at the detail, your root cause analysis is off by miles, think about it, what’s tzatziki made of?

Yes apart from strained yogurt, olive oil, garlic, lemon juice, salt and herbs, one of the main ingredients is shredded cucumber.

Yeah that’s right, the boring old cucumber.

Cucumber’s are also key ingredients in lots of different cocktails too, so f@&k off with your ‘boring’ label.

And just for good measure cucumbers have a nice dose of vitamin K which is good for brain function, endocrine function, anti-cancer effect, strengthening of bones and blood clotting agents.

We did a bit more Googling and found 37 recipes ‘That Are More Cooling Than Your Window AC Unit’ according to Bon Appétit.

So think on before you start slating a cucumber, its doing a great job and it’s multi-functional.

But again no pervs please.

#StandUpForCucumbers