cucumber salad sandwich

Banana Bread

Cucumber Salad Sandwich

Drescription

Who said you couldn't put a salad on a sandwich? Flavor this creamy cucumber filling with your favorite fresh herbs, tangy feta cheese and lemon. Salting the cucumber then patting it dry removes some of the moisture from the cucumber so the filling doesn't make the bread too soggy. If you like crispy bread, toast it first for extra crunch.

Ingredients

1 cup chopped english cucumber
⅛ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons low-fat plain strained yogurt, such as greek-style
2 tablespoons crumbled feta cheese
1 tablespoon herbs, such as dill, parsley or mint, chopped
¼ teaspoon lemon zest
½ teaspoon lemon juice
⅛ teaspoon ground pepper
½ cup alfalfa sprouts
4 slices whole-grain bread, toasted if desired
2 thin slices red onion

Directions

Stir together cucumber and salt in a medium bowl; let stand for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, combine yogurt, feta, herbs, lemon zest, lemon juice and pepper in a large bowl.
Drain the cucumbers; spread on a paper towel and pat dry. Add to the yogurt mixture; stir until well coated.
Divide sprouts between 2 bread slices. Spread cucumber salad on top of the sprouts. Top each with an onion slice and another bread slice; cut in half. Serve immediately.

Made with Love Lillikoi Pancakes

While traveling, I make it a point to try food locally available and at times I research and find out best food joints a place has to offer. Last year, we been to Oahu for our honeymoon and on the last day of the trip we went crazy on trying all the famous stuff that we had made a list of like Leonard bakery's malasada(fried yeast doughnu Portuguese origins), Liliha bakery's cocoa puffs etc etc and Moke's Lillikoi pancakes. You might wonder what is LIllikoi? Lillikoi is nothing but passionfruit in Hawaii. Moke's place is very small joint but serves it's patrons with a big heart. I was so excited to have these pancakes. It was 3 o'clock at noon , they were out of pancake batter, but all of a sudden they told us they would manage to serve us a small stack of pancakes! That's all we wanted! These pancakes were a deal especially the sauce. Not only did we had second serving of the sauce but also did they pack us it in a container, which we later on enjoyed on the beach. I do not know the recipe but I am trying to do some justice what we had at Moke's . So enjoy my version of Lilikoi pancakes in the pancake month February!