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Creamy Cucumber-Tomato Salsa ♥ Recipe

Today's quick and easy cucumber and tomato “salsa”: It’s a quick mix of cucumber and tomato plus a little radish for bite and crunch. Serve it as a healthy dip or on the side. Weight Watchers Friendly, WW 0 or 1 PointsPlus. Low Cal. Low Carb. Gluten Free. Vegetarian. "Out the ying-yang.” That’s what I’m thinkin’ about the garden’s dutiful presentation of a basketful of cucumbers one morning after the next now that the temperatures here in eastern Missouri have climbed into the more-seasonal if less-welcome 90s. I’m ruthless about rejects: if there’s even a hint of bruising or biting from creatures-of-the-night, bam, into the compost box those babies go. (And have I told you about the cucumber-loving woodchuck? Okay, encourage me and I will. Tee hee ...) But even the perfect ones stack up, so many we can barely give them away. Some times I fear that if I see even one more cucumber, I might just start wishing away the summer. Instead, I peel and chop and voila, the cucumbers

Garden Eggs "Benedict” Recipe ♥
with Giant Squash, Summer Tomato, Bacon, Cheese and an Egg on Top

Today's tasty breakfast recipe, straight from the garden: It’s a garden version of Eggs Benedict. Low calorie. Low carb. Paleo if you leave out the cheese, primal if you leave it in. Weight Watchers friendly. Gluten free. Okay, so you’re right, of course. This isn’t really eggs benedict, because there’s no English muffin, no Canadian bacon and no hollandaise. Even the egg is fried, not poached. But that’s why I call it Garden Eggs “Benedict”. And it’s closer to traditional eggs benedict than you might think, given all that’s missing! It starts off with a slice of a large zucchini, a good way to use those "baseball bats” of zucchini that emerge from the garden this time of year. Then there’s a layer of warm tomato, isn’t it so good to have tomatoes again?! Crispy bacon is an easy substitute for Canadian bacon. If you keep the yolk runny, it makes a “sauce” that spills all over the whole pile once you dig your fork in. So phooey on the classic version, Garden Eggs “Benedict