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“There was something green between slices of soft bread. Otoha took a bite and sure enough the blend of cucumbers and butter leaped out into her mouth, with a simple, yet deep taste. "Mr. Kinoshita, this is really delicious! It's hard to believe the ingredients are that simple." "Thanks. I just sliced the cucumbers very thin and rubbed them with salt." Otoha tried the roast chicken sandwich next. "This is wonderful too. The chicken is so moist." "I simply added salt and pepper to the chicken breasts as I roasted them, and then a little French dressing before I put it in the sandwich." "They're all very simple flavors. You can really savor all the ingredients." "I think that's how things were back in those times. Plus, I don't think Montgomery, a pastor's wife, would like writing long descriptions of how food tasted." "That makes sense." On top of the flat plate of sandwiches was a small dish with green peas. Otoha tried them and found them softly boiled, with a taste of butter. "Those are green peas sautéed in butter. I finished them by adding a spoonful of sugar. Do you remember how, when they invited Mrs. Morgan to Green Gables, Anne added too much sugar and spoiled the peas?”

Simple Peas Bread And Butter Cucumbers Anne Of Green Gables Recreating

Book:Dinner at the Night Library

Source: Dinner at the Night Library

“The owner comes back, makes tea for them and says, 'I'm sorry I only have bread, butter, and cucumbers,' but Anne and Diana are so starving that the bread, butter, and cucumbers taste delicious. And it really does sound delicious. I don't know that much about Anne of Green Gables, or about novels in general, but that scene really stands out for me, the way it describes how wonderful the food tasted... Especially the way it describes the joy of eating." "You may well be right." "I thought about this a lot and I believe that the cucumbers mentioned may have been pickled. Though other translations of the book only say it's bread, butter, and cucumbers. But I can't picture them crunching on fresh cucumbers... So anyway, that's how I came up with my own version, which is this. Bread, butter, and cucumber sandwiches. That seemed a bit inadequate, though, so I also made roast chicken sandwiches. I think they must have eaten those as well.”

Sandwiches Recreation Bread And Butter Cucumbers Anne Of Avonlea

Book:Dinner at the Night Library

Source: Dinner at the Night Library

“For my first home-cooked meal in Tokyo, I took an assortment of beautiful Japanese ingredients and did what came naturally: I made Chinese food. I stir-fried some beautifully marbled kurobuta (Berkshire breed) pork with bok choy, ginger, and leeks, sauced it with soy sauce, mirin, and vinegar, and served it over rice, sprinkled with shichimi tōgarashi seven-spice mixture. This seemed like a reasonable act of Japanese-Chinese fusion. I made some quick-pickled cucumbers on the side. This was before we discovered that anything you do to a Japanese cucumber diminishes it. I should have known this; once I interviewed a Japanese-American farmer who grows more than a hundred Asian vegetables in Washington state. Naturally, I asked him about his personal favorite. Cucumber, he said. "How do you prepare it?" I asked. "Slice and eat." The whole meal was about the same as something I'd make at home, but I cooked it in Japan. It was like the SpongeBob SquarePants episode where SpongeBob has to work the night shift at the Krusty Krab, and he keeps saying things like, "I'm chopping lettuce... at night!" I was slicing cucumbers... in Tokyo!”

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Book:Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo

Source: Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo

“In this day and age, it is hard for a saint to trust the cucumber.”

Fruit Saint 21st Century Masturbation Saints Cucumbers Masturbate Generation Z Dildo Cucumber

Book:Song of a Nature Lover

Source: Song of a Nature Lover

“...keep cool--cucumbers is the word.”

Calm Cool Cucumbers

Book:Moby Dick

Source: Moby Dick

“Cucumbers are better, motherfucker,” Vic told the corpse.”

Cucumbers Corpse

Book:A Quantum Mythology

Source: A Quantum Mythology

“Suffice to say, the dream writer had a way of phrasing things. She could depict the curve of a cucumber, the shape of a sunbeam, the endearing, velvety tilt of a peach, in just such a way that she earned her living selling dreams. One simply made a selection, read it in solitude, and let it percolate till sleep. People swore they fell directly into her renderings, and one even asked if the dream writer could write a dream of dreaming forever. The dream writer could not do this, but she hired dream apprentices to expand the reach of her dreams and she wrote dreams for herself in which she would sit at a desk, pen in hand, and write even more dreams. This nearly doubled her output.”

Writing Dreams Productivity Dreaming Vocation Peaches Sunbeams Cucumbers

Book:The Little Queen

Source: The Little Queen

“She returned to where I stood, and handed over a flower. I inspected the borage, holding it up like a culinary scientist, noting the blue petals, offset by white stamens, and a raised white ball-like structure in the center, decorated with a purplish-blue pattern with hints of red that resembled a planet or a galactic moon. My heart skipped a beat. Aside from Marie's desserts, I'd never seen anything so beautiful. "This flower is mystical and magical," I said. "Did fairies or aliens create them?" "I'd go with fairies. The thought of aliens flips me out. Eat it," she said, and I did. The flavors of this edible flower rolled on my tongue in waves. A crunch. A bitterness. And sweetness. I closed my eyes, reveling in the magic, the flavor, thinking about what we could do with this. I met her gaze. "Oh my god. You're so right. They taste like cucumbers," I said, licking my lips.”

Flower Cucumbers Colors Of Nature Borage

Book:Sophie Valroux's Paris Stars

Source: Sophie Valroux's Paris Stars

“As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.”

Firsts War Hands Able Fronts Glasses Officers Vodka Cucumbers

Author:Asne Seierstad

“The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad.”

Ifs Men Law Eating Criminals Silly Beer Jail Consumption Salad Drunkenness Cucumbers

Author:Stephen Leacock

“No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums of Paris . Beginning with the market - where, for lack of money, I bought only a piece of a long cucumber - the workman in his blue overall, the most ardent followers of Cubism , everything showed a definite feeling for proportion, clarity, an accurate sense of form, of a more painterly kind of painting, even in the canvases of second-rate artists.”

“Coming from New York, I know that if you go by a delicatessen, and you put a sweet cucumber in the vinegar barrel, the cucumber might say, "No, I want to retain my sweetness." But it's hopeless. The barrel will turn the sweet cucumber into a pickle. You can't be a sweet cucumber in a vinegar barrel.”

Ifs Knows Want Might Turns Environment New York Sweet Hopeless Sweetness Barrels Vinegar Pickles Cucumbers

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.”

Father Food Cooking Breasts Culinary Chill Coldness Cucumbers

Book:The Ingoldsby Legends Or Mirth and Marvels

Source: The Ingoldsby Legends Or Mirth and Marvels

“You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.”

Feels Sometimes Pieces Food Cooking Bread Culinary Wet Damp Bread And Butter Cucumbers Handkerchiefs

Author:Compton Mackenzie

“If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the frost, without any perceptible motive, any hope of personal gain, has quietly killed your strawberry blossoms, tomatoes, lima and green beans, corn, squash, cucumbers. A brilliant sun is now smiling at this disaster with an insenstive cheerfulness as out of place as a funny story would be if someone you loved had just died.”

Source: How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening

“My fridge is really just vegan: coconut water, Gatorade (my favorite!), cucumbers, mint, kale, vegetables, ginger, and wheat grass.”

Water My Favorite Grass Vegan Vegetables Wheat Mint Fridges Ginger Coconuts Kale Cucumbers Gatorade

Author:Serena Williams

“July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden - first sweet corn on the cob dripping with butter, first tomatoes dead ripe and sunwarm, string beans, squash, crisp cucumbers. July can also be hard and shiny, brassy and sharp. Some days are like copper pennies in the sunlight.”

“I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.”

Five Wonderful Produce Source Green Strings Vegan Milk Cheese Chef Beans Protein Powder Broccoli Kale Cucumbers Avocados Smoothies

Author:Larry Hagman

“Nothing ruins the mood during foreplay more than the recurring image of your sixty-five-year-old homeroom teacher trying to stretch a condom over a cucumber.”

Trying Years Five Teacher Mood Ruins Five Years Sixty Five Year Olds Condom Recurring Cucumbers

Book:Ranting Again

Source: Ranting Again

“I love to create this green juice shake made from kale, spinach, cucumber and wheatgrass. The nutrients in the juice help me recover after a tough workout. The Kale Banana Smoothie at LYFE Kitchen is very similar to my recipe and is fantastic.”

Made Helping Tough Green Fantastic Kitchen Shakes Help Me Workout Recipes Juice Bananas Nutrients Kale Cucumbers Spinach Smoothies

Author:Troy Polamalu

“Heaven is a homegrown cucumber”

Heaven Cucumbers Homegrown

Author:Alys Fowler

“Fighting is spiritual. It appears to be physical from the layman's eyes. In my fights, I seemed to be angry and mad - all that stuff you saw me doing, the yelling and screaming and being mean in the ring - but I'm cool as a cucumber. I can hear everybody talking around me outside of the ring. I can see everybody. I know what is going on.”

Knows Mean I Can Eye Spiritual Fighting Stuff Talking Saws Angry Mad Rings Being Me Yelling Layman Cucumbers Being Mean Yelling And Screaming

Author:Mike Tyson

“I slice up a ton of cucumbers, celery, carrots and red and yellow peppers. Keep them in your fridge so you always have something handy to curb your snack attack.”

Red Yellow Carrots Curb Handy Peppers Snacks Fridges Cucumbers Celery Red And Yellow

Author:Summer Sanders

“I like a pickled cucumber. A regular cucumber I'm not so interested in.”

Cucumbers

Author:Jeff Goldblum

“I think pickles are cucumbers that sold out. They sold their soul to the devil, and the devil is dill.”

Thinking Soul Humor Funny Devil Pickles Sold Out Cucumbers

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I'm sorry, was that homophobic? No--I think it was, 'cause I hear that a lot. Dave, What?, You're talking about being gay. You probably secretly are gay. And I'm like listen voice in my head, I'm not! HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU WOULDN'T LIKE IT? HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU WOULDN'T LIKE IT? I know I wouldn't like it, other scarier voice in my head! 'Cause one time while making a sandwich, a cucumber went up my ass. Three times.”

Thinking Knows Humor Funny Three Causes Voice Talking Gay Sorry Ass Do You Know One Time I'm Sorry Three Times Sandwiches Dave Being Gay Homophobic Cucumbers Voices In My Head

Author:Dave Attell

“I think pickles are cucumbers that sold out.”

Thinking Humor Funny Pickles Sold Out Cucumbers

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“The organic gardener does not think of throwing away the garbage. She knows that she needs the garbage. She is capable of transforming the garbage into compost, so that the compost can turn into lettuce, cucumber, radishes, and flowers again...With the energy of mindfulness, you can look into the garbage and say: I am not afraid. I am capable of transforming the garbage back into love.”

Thinking Knows Needs Looks Doe Turns Energy Flower Mindfulness Capable Throwing Not Afraid Garbage Transforming Gardener Lettuce Cucumbers Compost Throwing Away Radishes

Author:Nhat Hanh

“The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need to know. Nothing more. Don't demand to know "why such things exist." Anyone who understands the world will laugh at you, just as a carpenter would if you seemed shocked at finding sawdust in his workshop, or a shoemaker at scraps of leather left over from work.”

Ifs Knows World Needs Left Laughing Path Demand Findings Bitter Shocked Leather Scrap Workshops Carpenter Cucumbers Sawdust

Book:Meditations: A New Translation

Source: Meditations: A New Translation

“I don't like to leave what I'm going to eat in other people's hands, so I'll pack my own lunch. I chop up a salad with lots of greens - everything from spinach, baby spinach, arugula, cucumber, avocado, radish, cauliflower, and green olives to parsley and cilantro, all chopped really fine - with a piece of wild salmon. I even bring my own tea in a Thermos.”

People Hands My Own Pieces Baby Fine Green Tea Lunch Packs Salad Olives Salmon Cucumbers Spinach Avocados Radishes Cauliflower Thermos Parsley Arugula

Author:Miranda Kerr

“I have either a cucumber martini, gin martini, or a vodka martini. That's it. Simple.”

Simple Gin Vodka Martini Cucumbers

Author:Robert De Niro

“My mom makes this amazing little snack that, to this day, I still think about. It's pita bread wrapped with melted butter, feta cheese, and cucumbers. That, to me, is still heaven. It's my childhood.”

Thinking Littles Stills Heaven Childhood Mom My Mom Bread This Day Cheese Snacks Cucumbers Feta Cheese

Author:Masiela Lusha

“I had to wear a fat suit to play Mma Ramotswe in 'The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.' She's described as being like a small elephant, but she loves her body and size. When we were filming in Africa, it was 110F. It was torturous. I drank a lot of water and ate cucumbers all the time, and underneath the fat suit I shed pounds - I couldn't help it.”

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Author:Jill Scott

“And talking about dark! You think dark is just one color, but it ain't. There're five or six kinds of black. Some silky, some woolly. Some just empty. Some like fingers. And it don't stay still, it moves and changes from one kind of black to another. Saying something is pitch black is like saying something is green. What kind of green? Green like my bottles? Green like a grasshopper? Green like a cucumber, lettuce, or green like the sky is just before it breaks loose to storm? Well, night black is the same way. May as well be a rainbow.”

Thinking Way Wells Kind May Stills Moving Night Black Dark Talking Break Five Sky Color Six Empty Green Fingers Storm Just One Bottles Rainbow Lettuce Cucumbers Grasshoppers Pitch Black

Author:Toni Morrison

“Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .”

Ifs Thinking World Mind Soul Enough Body Pain Turns Evil Imagination Attitude Path This World Goes On Limits Bitter Bitterness Serenity Tranquility Everlasting Cucumbers Briars

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right over.”

Thinking Heart Kind Mother Turns My Heart Died Steam Mother Died Cucumbers Zucchini

Book:The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

“Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.”

Persons Made Book Remember Wonder Feet Return Library Admire Pulling Funny Things Library Books Splinters Cucumbers

Book:The Last Summer (of You and Me)

Source: The Last Summer (of You and Me)

“HOROSCOPE: Today is a good time for making new friends. A good deed may have unforeseen consequences. Don’t upset any druids. You will soon be going on a very strange journey. Your lucky food is small cucumbers. People pointing knives at you are probably up to no good. PS, we really mean it about the druids.”

Source: All the Discworld's a Stage

“Sometimes from this hillside just after sunset The rim of the sky takes on a tinge Of the palest green, like the flesh of a cucumber When you peel it carefully.”

Sometimes Sky Green Flesh Sunset Rims Cucumbers

Author:Robert Hass

“The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.”

Firsts Food Months Fruit Chickens Vegetarian Nuts Vegetables Requirements Tuesday Tomatoes Cucumbers Avocados

Book:Shades of Grey

Source: Shades of Grey

“The secret weapon is cucumber.' Solange sat all the way up. 'Jasmine, cover your ears.' MaryAnn, Juliette and Jasmine burst out laughing. 'Sheesh, Solange. Get your mind out of the gutter.' 'MY mind is just fine, thank you. It's MaryAnn's I'm concerned about.' 'You put them on your eyes,' MaryAnn said, laughing even harder.”

Way Mind Said Eye Secret Laughing Fine Weapons Concerned Ears Harder Sat Gutters Jasmine Cucumbers

Book:Dark Possession

Source: Dark Possession

“It's funny how cucumber water can taste so much better than pickle juice, even though they come from the same source.”

Water Source Taste Juice Pickles Cucumbers

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“Cucumber and bergamot," Clary said. "Is there anything else you hate that I ought to know about?" Jace looked at Dorothea over the rim of his teacup. "Liars," he said.”

Knows Said Hate Ought Liars Jace Rims Cucumbers

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

“Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“The play account rule is that it must be spent every month. That's right! Each month you have to blow all the money in that account in a way that makes you feel rich. For example, imagine walking into a massage center, dumping all the money from your account on the counter, pointing to the massage therapists, and saying, "I want both of you on me. With the hot rocks and the frickin' cucumbers. After that, bring me lunch!"”

Way Want Feels Play Age Secret Rich Imagine Rocks Example Months Walking Accounts Hot Blow Lunch Pointing Therapists Massage Cucumbers Each Month Massage Therapists

Author:T. Harv Eker

“Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'”

World Enough Problem Turns Path Goes On Bitter Problem Solving Cucumbers Briars

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control! O for a vale that at midday the dew cumbers! O for a pleasure trip up to the pole!”

Two Pleasure Summer Garden July Dew Iceberg Lodges Cucumbers

Book:Morning Lights and Evening Shadows

Source: Morning Lights and Evening Shadows

“He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.”

Years War Science Air Projects Summer Scientist Eight Warm Invention August Sunbeams Cucumbers Summer Rain Gulliver

Author:Jonathan Swift

“The best Mother's Day gift I ever got was just a full day with the kids where they did their mommy pampering. They cut cucumbers and put them on my eyes and my daughter gave me a facial. I'm not even sure what was in it!”

Eye Kids Mother Cutting Daughter My Daughter Mothers Day Facial Best Mother Cucumbers Pampering

Author:Elisabeth Hasselbeck

“I just did a five-day raw-food diet, but I'll never do that again. It's really hard! I'd wake up in the morning feeling great and go to bed feeling miserable, because dinner would be cucumbers, kale, and dressing. I mean, at the end of the day, if you can't have a Girl Scout cookie and a piece of cheese, what is life all about?”

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