Cucumber sauce

Oh pshaw, on Sun 11 Nov 2007 08:38:04p, meant to say...

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I bought some beautiful Persian cucumbers today. Just perfect for
cucumber salad. Then I remembered that Nick on abf had mentioned in
one of his posts a sauce, like the one I'm posting, but made with soy
sauce and fish sauce and topped with fresh cilantro.
I used his wife's cucumber sauce recipe and added 2 tsp of soy sauce
and 8 shakes of fish sauce. Pretty danged good. I don't have any fresh
cilantro so I crushed a couple of coriander seeds and added them. I
was tempted to add some fresh dill or basil.
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I had that with some cold salmon and cold chicken for a snack tonight.
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Thanks to Nick for being so generous in sharing his wife's recipes
with us.

Here's Nick's wifes recipe
Thai Cucumber Sauce (Nam Jim Tang Quai)
Nam Jim Tang Quai I for fish cakes
1 lb cucumbers
2 serrano chiles
1/2 medium onion
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 cup white vinegar
1/2 tsp salt

Peel the cukes and slice them crosswise into 1/8th " slices. Remove
the stems but not the seeds from the chiles and slice them into rings.
Peel the onion and remove the root part and slice into thin vertical
slices.
Combine all mixing 'til the sugar is dissolved.
Use within 2 hours.

Note: If allowed to stand longer that 2 hours the cukes will start to
become soggy.

koko
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Sounds good! Vaguely reminds me of a cucumber sauce that my mom used to
make to serve with salmon croquette, the only common demoninator being the
cucumber. <g> It was nothing more than a well-seasoned medium white sauce
with peeled, seeded, and finely diced cucumbers stirred into the sauce just
before serving, and a healthy shake or two of dried dill weed. A neighbor
told her how to make back in 1956. It was a vast improvement over white
sauce with peas. <g>

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Wayne Boatwright

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koko said:

I bought some beautiful Persian cucumbers today. Just perfect for
cucumber salad.

I love those cukes. I discovered them a few years ago and buy
them every time I see them (which includes thew 2lb bag at
CostCo). They call them something else there, but they're the
same thing. They're basically miniature English/Hothouse
cucumbers, but better.

They make an excellent kimchi, too.

-sw

"Wayne Boatwright" <[email hidden]> wrote in message Vaguely
reminds me of a cucumber sauce that my mom used to

Quoted message said:

make to serve with salmon croquette, the only common demoninator being the
cucumber. <g> It was nothing more than a well-seasoned medium white sauce
with peeled, seeded, and finely diced cucumbers stirred into the sauce
just
before serving, and a healthy shake or two of dried dill weed. A neighbor
told her how to make back in 1956. It was a vast improvement over white
sauce with peas. <g>

--
Wayne Boatwright

Wayne,
I usually buy cucumbers (3 of them in a package at Costco) and after the 1st
one is gone, I wish and wish and wish that I knew of a way to serve them
that wasn't always a cold dish, but then I end up everytime putting them in
yogurt (a raita) to serve with salmon or other Indian dish. Darn!

I definitely will use this idea to make a bechamel mit cucumbre next time
for salmon. Yeah, peas and salmon get old after a while. :-))

Koko, that looked like a pretty good dish - fish sauce added, yum! I'll try
that, too. Thanks for the pictures. Photos really make your dishes and
recipes come alive!

Dee Dee