Always Green on Your Side

I used to despise any kind of salad there was. I don't know what happened, but one day I tried some sort of salad and I loved it. I know I'm being pretty vague here with details, but I'm going to guess it was a caesar salad. I love caesar salad, I order a plate almost every time I go out to eat. Now that's changed of course with my mentality of wanting to try everything else, but I still stand by my favorite.

Today I am not giving you a fancy salad or a caesar salad, it's something simple. Something I have been wanting to try ever since I saw Jamie Oliver do it on his 30 minute meals show.

Cucumber Ribbon Salad

1 English cucumber or field cucumber

About a handful or two of baby arugula

Any dressing that you desire (today I did the creamy french dressing again, but added some lemon to the mix, quite good, but I put too much pepper in there)

What I did was sprinkle the dressing on the plate first, laid out a bit of baby arugula, and then came the fun part. Take your cucumber and cut the ends off, take a potato peeler and start peeling your cucumber from end to end, don't worry about the skin being on there, it's good flavour. Stop peeling just before you hit the core with the seeds, rotate and start again. I put a little bit more arugula on top and then sprinkled a little more dressing on top. It was quite good, and much better than the last time I tried it, last time it was slimey, this time it had a good crunch to it, which I like, and it reminds me of the good crunchiness that caesar salad has.

Enjoy!