The Friday Funnies – EARTH-SHATTERING CULINARY NEWS!

While divesting individual cucumber slices of their thick, deep-green skin – which was laborious and time-consuming at best – I thought to myself, “Self, there’s gotta be a better way!”

It was then that the Food Fairy (the Tooth Fairy’s weight-challenged sister) sprinkled me with her magic dust ( Sorry to my Evangelical friends for the fairy and magic references. ) That sprinkling (Sorry to my Catholic friends for the sprinkling reference. ) bequeathed me with the following knowledge: Cut both ends of the cucumber with a sharp knife, dull ones take forever!

Then use one of those handy-dandy food peeler-thingamajigs to scrape the thick, deep-green skin from the unsuspecting cucumber! Done correctly, the cucumber will not know what has transpired and will still be as fresh as a daisy.

Hummmm, speaking of daisies, I wonder if I could use that same technique on their stems, which make good salad filler? But that’s another culinary tidbit for another day. For all you up-and-coming chefs like me, remember my old saying: Today the Kitchen… tomorrow the hotplate at Maison des Gaufres. (That’s Waffle House for you hayseeds that don’t know no French. )

Big hug, y’all!