Letter C: Cucumber Salad

We decided to tweak our cooking project just a little. So, we are still picking one ingredient and creating a new recipe, but NOW we are going to go through the whole alphabet using a new ingredient for each letter! Pretty creative of us, huh? I know! We started off with C...but that is only because C stands for CORBETT!!! Okay, here it is....

Cucumber & Egg Salad

**Sorry for the picture quality, I will get better at photographing food**

INGREDIENTS

• 2 eggs
• 2 small seedless cucumbers
• 2 small dill pickles, chopped
• 1 1/2 tablespoon mayonnaise
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. black pepper
• 1 tsp. paprika 
• 1/2 cup of shredded chicken or tuna (optional)

DIRECTIONS

1. Place eggs in a saucepan and cover completely with cold water. Bring water to a boil. Remove from heat and let eggs stand in hot water for 10 minutes. Remove from hot water and cool.
2. Peel eggs. Chop into eighths and transfer to a medium size bowl.
3. Cube cucumbers and chop pickles, then add to eggs. 
4. Add shredded chicken or tuna (optional). 
5. Mix in mayo, salt, pepper, and paprika (add more or less depending on taste). 
6. Refrigerate until cold. Serve over bread.

Serves 2.

Adapted from All Recipes

***Note: This is a perfect meal for lunch or early dinner. It's very light and tasty. We used chicken the first time, but tuna would also make a lovely combination. This was so easy and quick to make. It only took us 15 minutes to prepare and it was so fun taste-testing and trying to figure out the best combination of spices to use. Next time, we'll remember to dry out our cucumbers, so it's not too watery. Overall, a good start to our cooking project!! 

Next week's ingredient: A = artichokes