Laura's Thai Cucumber Salad for July 14th

Here's the cuke salad recipe....

Thai Cucumber Salad

Dressing:
1/2 cup brown rice vinegar
2 tsp sugar
1 tsp curry powder
1 lrg clove garlic
2 stalks lemongrass, white part only (minced). (I used one large one)
1/2 tsp salt

Combine above ingredients

Salad:
2 lbs cucumbers, thinly sliced
1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and minced
3 scallions
1/4 cup cilantro
3/4 cup dry roasted peanuts

Combine above ingredients (except nuts) in a large bowl. Add dressing
and marinate for 15-20 mins. Roughly chop peanuts and sprinkle over
top before serving

Yum!

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Amy Wheeler's Banana Oatmeal cookies

Amy told a great story about why she chose this recipe.
I won't do it justice here, but I'll offer the gist.
She knew she had to work all day; so she needed something that would store well and was quick n' easy to make. She recalled (yet again) her mother's fine ol' recipe. Here, here for "Heritage" recipes!



1 1/2 C sifted flour
1 full C. sugar
1/2 t. baking soda
1 t. salt
1/4 t. nutmeg
3/4 t. cinnamon
1 1/2 sticks butter
1 egg
2 mashed bananas - very ripe
1 3/4 C.quick cooking oats
1 C. chopped pecans

sift together dry ingredient in a large bowl, cut in butter, add bananas, egg, oats and nuts - drop tsps.on an ungreased cookie sheet

bake at 400 about 15 minutes