Cucumbers in Sour Cream

Cucumbers in Sour Cream Two very simple ingredients plus just the time to slice some cucumbers and give them a little stir in a bowl is all it takes to make this dish. You truly couldn't ask for a simpler summer side.

Who's still got cucumbers coming from their garden? I absolutely adore those little garden-fresh, tender-skinned cucumbers ... so much better than the big, wax-covered ones we typically get in the grocery store. Don't you think? While I certainly enjoy "big" grocery store cucumbers, they just don't hold a candle to the smaller, home-grown garden variety.

And there are so many simple ways to enjoy those little garden-fresh tender-skinned cucumbers, too ...

My favorite probably being with just a tiny sprinkling of salt. I can remember my Mom cutting fresh cucumbers into sticks and sprinkling them just ever-so-slightly with salt, and serving them up as a tasty snack or summer side dish. Delicious. I could just never get enough.

Fresh cucumbers are also fabulous sliced and soaked for just a few minutes in a little dose of vinegar. Or, marinated for several days in the refrigerator to make Fresh Cucumber Pickles. Or as a simple little cucumber and onion salad. But if you want to get just a tad bit fancier? Try cucumbers in a wonderful Creamy Cucumber Salad with fresh herbs or tasty Cucumber, Tomato & Avocado Salad dressed with a fun citrus and honey vinaigrette.

But of all the simple ways to enjoy cucumbers, do you want to know one I had never heard of until just a few years ago?

Cucumbers in sour cream!

And let me just tell you, this is truly one of the simplest recipes around.

I was introduced to Cucumbers in Sour Cream by my then future mother-in-law just a bit after I had met my husband. My mother-in-law has always tended and grown a fairly large garden, that provides her a huge summer harvest of just about everything you can imagine. And with an entire long row of cucumbers, there seemed to be a never-ending summer crop to enjoy. She'd just go grab a few to enjoy with dinner {or lunch} just about any time she wanted.

One day early on in my husband's and my dating, we were visiting my mother-in-law for the weekend when she decided to whip up a quick bowl of Cucumbers in Sour Cream to go with dinner.

Well, I had never heard of such a thing ... which is quite simply, just thinly sliced cucumbers with a touch of salt and pepper slathered in a big dose of sour cream. To quote my mother-in-law, "You use right much sour cream."

And quite frankly, I was quite skeptical. I truly didn't think sour cream and cucumbers would compliment one another very well.

But of course, when you're eating at your soon-to-be mother-in-law's, you dutifully eat at least a little bit of everything on the dinner table.

Much to my surprise, cucumbers and sour cream do compliment one another! In fact they're quite tasty together, and are a wonderful way to enjoy that summer cucumber harvest. Light, crunchy, creamy, and just slightly salty.

You couldn't ask for an easier summer side. Two very simple ingredients plus just the time to slice some cucumbers and give them a little stir in a bowl is all it takes to make this dish. And it truly doesn't get any simpler than that.