The Rain Notebook

This has been one of my favorite snacks for years! And come the start of my diet I was glad to hear that cucumbers were on my menu. This is a healthy perspectives recipe but how I grew up eating it was adding jicama. You can do the recipe either way but in the future I will be reposting it with the jicama included.

This is a very refreshing snack and the cucumbers are great for balancing out your PH levels. But it tastes great too! Especially if you like the tart/salty snacks, this one is for you. I introduced this to my girlfriend and she isn’t on the diet but is obsessed with this snack. Try it… I think you’ll love it too!

Refreshing Cucumber Snack

1 cucumber
1 lime (since I didn’t have a lime I used a lemon)
salt to taste

That simple… now on to the recipe

Start with slicing your cucumber all up.

Then bring out the lime, or in my case lemon. Either that or a funny looking lime! I prefer the flavor of a lime but you can use the lemon instead if you like the flavor instead.

Slice the lemon in half

Now get a plate and layout some of the cucumbers to fill up the plate but make it a flat layer.

Squeeze some of the first half of the lemon all over the cucumbers.

Now sprinkle some salt onto the cucumbers. Now this is entirely up to you on how salty you want it. I like a lot of salt on mine. Plus for the diet its a great and easy way to get your salt in for the day.

Looks good, doesn’t it?

Now here is a little suggestion. To go along the lines of salty/tart, spicy makes it taste really good. You would want to use crushed red peppers.

Sprinkle to your taste

Now that you finished this layer, keep going until you use all of your cucumber. Repeat all of the steps above. You can use all of your lemon if you want to, I personally love to use it all.

A beautiful close up

A cleanup is a snap… I personally save the rinds of the lemons so I put them in hot water to make a “tea” without all the added preservatives that some teas have. Its really good… you should try that!