Adorable Vegetable

Most things are cuter when made smaller, like baby elephants, or tiny cars, or even a teeny wart...maybe not. But, you get the idea. So you can imagine my delight at finding mini cucumbers at my local Costco.

Oh how I love them. They are the perfect size for quickly chopping up and throwing in a salad or throwing in a tupperware to take to work. And the best part is you don't have any leftover parts of half cut up cucumber that you put in a baggie and then it gets all mushy and weird.

Cucumbers are an excellent vegetable because they are low in calories (if you worry about that sort of thing), and they taste great (if you like things that don't taste like shit). You should try cucumbers in the following ways:

• in a salad
• in a pasta salad
• with Italian dressing
• pickled (also known as a pickle)
• on a sandwich
• a sandwich made of cucumbers