Making Use of Cucumbers

My coworker has been giving me a lot of Japanese cucumbers lately. After getting two or three of them almost every other day, and if you're the only one eating them, you'll eventually run out of how to eat cucumbers, let aside the fact that these cucumbers are organic, thus they rot very fast.


So what can I use for cucumbers?

There's a normal way - eat. I once dressed them with mozuku, which is what my mom often did back in home. I didn't like it back then, but after not eating her cooking for so long time, it did make me nostalgic and I appreciated the flavor. Other days, I made Bang Bang Ji - a supposedly-Chinese dish, with strips of boiled chicken breasts on top of cucumbers with special sauce. This was pretty yummy and I made it several times.

Another way to use it is for beauty. I don't know if it's true or not - but if you slice them and put them on your eyes, it's very soothing. Now that I think about it, there are some beauty products like that exists. Even in elementary school's science project back in Japan, we cut cucumber vines and collected cucumber water, and used it as beauty water of some sort (for mostly mothers).

Different coworker of mine asked me what I'm holding today, and when I told him they're Japanese cucumbers, he told me to try making cucumber drink. Just slice them and leave them in water for overnight, then add some lime and drink it. Pretty good, he said.


If anyone out there is reading this entry and actually know other healthy ways to make a good use of cucumbers, please comment and let me know.