Day 3. A short and sweet kinda day. The only thing to report is that today is another errands day, and a busy soccer night at our house. Plus it was pretty gloomy out there, so my intention in picking the salad for tonight's dinner was based on bringing zing and colour and big tastes to the table, with few ingredients and easy prep. The pickings for today herald from a lovely blogger out on the west coast of Canada, Elaine at Flavour & Savour. Witness, The Cucumber Mint Salad with Thai Dressing.

It was an easy choice. I needed something simple and easy, and wanted to use up cucumbers I had purchased at my local Coop a few days ago, courtesy of local produce fellas The Cucumber Man. They're purveyors of locally grown biologically controlled fresh scrumptious green house produce. This salad was the perfect side to our miso soup (by request, and why yes, it was a short-simmered beef bone broth as the base with a dollop of chickpea miso, and chives from the garden, and ground up powder from my fire cider last fall. (That's for another post now, innit!)) and Korean-flavour inspired beef meat balls. The bold flavours of the salad complemented the meal; I only wish I had sliced more cucumbers, as I had a lot of dressing leftover. Ah, but this will be good again for lunch tomorrow! Other tweaks: I used the fish sauce and used more than they called for, and added my house-fermented hot sauce. Because if you know me, you know I'm going to slip in some fermented something in there...

Thanks to The Cucumber Man today for the local cukes and to Elaine at Flavour & Savour for her recipe. Link below!