Cucumber with Coconut Milk
Topic: Salad
One of our favorite salad at home especially when we had grilled milkfish or any fried fish.

Ingredients:
5 medium cucumber, sliced into thin strips
1 medium tomato, thinly sliced
1 stalk green onions, chopped
1 cup coconut milk
salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
1. Combine all ingredients in a bowl.
2. Mix well, chill for few minutes before serving if desired.

Tuna Cucumber Salad
Topic: Salad
This salad was made of 3 ingredients only:
Tuna flakes in oil, tomatoes and cucumber seasoned with salt and pepper. My husband’s favorite salad, actually he was the who introduced it to me during the early years of our marriage. He said this was one of his meals before we were married, he always prepare it when he was home after work because it’s very easy to prepare and very healthy also.

Now that I am here to cook for him, he was still requesting for it sometimes and I learned to like this dish also because of him.

Hot Cucumber Salad
Topic: Salad
It's Autumn season in Kuwait, few days from now we will be freeze with the cold winter, so if you still want to eat salad, then this will be the good summertime salad substitue.

Ingredients:
2 cucumbers, thinly sliced
1 tomato, thinly sliced
1/4 cup vinegar
1 tbsp. sugar
1 tsp. red chili, chopped
1 tbsp. chopped fresh corriander
pinch of salt

Directions:
1. Combine cucumber, tomato and corriander in a bowl.
2. Mix together vinegar, sugar, pepper and salt. Pour the mixture over the cucumber, mix well.
3. Chill before serving if desired.

Jackfruit with Shrimp Salad
Topic: Salad
Since we tasted the canned jackfruit in the Jackfruit Salad that I made last week, my husband bought again the other day, it seemed that he was starting to like the canned jackfruit now, tasted almost the same with the fresh one, that was he said. Now I add shrimp and cucumber to taste different from the one I made before.

Ingredients:
1 can 565 g boiled young jackruit
200 g shelled deveined shrimps
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 small onion, minced
1 cucumber, sliced very thinly
1/2 of small bell pepper, chopped
1 ripe tomato, sliced thinly
1 tsbp. fish sauce
1/2 cup coconut milk
1 tsp. sugar
salt and pepper to taste
2 tsbp. olive oil
1 lemon, sliced (optional)

Directions:
1. Drain the jackfruit in the can, wash with cold water, thin slice. Squeeze out all the water and set aside.
2. Heat oil in a skillet. Saute garlic and onions, then add shrimps, sugar salt and pepper. Cooked until the shrimps are done.
3. Combine the jackfruit, cucumber, bell pepper, tomato and the cooked shrimps in a bowl. Set aside.
4. Combine fish sauce and coconut milk, add this mixture to the jacfruit mixture and toss well. Adjust the seasoning accoring to your taste.
5. Serve with lemon sliced. (Some people like to add lemon, others may not)

Cucumber Salad
Topic: Salad
Our all time favorite salad in the house, always present in the fridge, I cannot remember a week in our life here in Kuwait withour eating cucumber salad, of course with many variations. Sometimes I made it into, Tuna Cucumber Salad, Cucumber with Coconut Cream, Cucumber with Thousand Island Dressing, Cucumber with vegetables, Cucumber with Olives, etc.

Ingredients:
2 medium cucumbers, sliced into small cubes
1 tomato, sliced into small cube
1 tbsp. olive oil
1 tbsp. soy sauce
1/4 tsp. black pepper powder
1/2 tsp. sugar
1 tbsp. lime juice
1/2 tsp. salt
Few slices of lettuce, small and large slices

Directions:
1. Combine cucumber and tomatoes.
2. Combine olive oil, soy sauce, black pepper, sugar, lime juice and salt. Mix well with the cucumber and tomato mixture.
3. Refrigerate for an hour.
4. Mix in the small slices of lettuce leaves and serve on top of large slices.