A quick refreshing cucumber salad

If you want something as a side dish to accompany your main meal, but you don;t have much in that fridge left, try this cucumber salad with walnuts (optional of course) It's easy and quick to make, but can really pimp up a meal. And nobody needs to know it didn't take you much effort to make, right ?

a cucumber, skin on
some white balsamic vinegar or some walnut vinegar
honey to taste
dill, fresh would be best, otherwise dried
some chopped walnuts
some freshly ground pepper





Simply use your cheese slicer to slice the washed cucumber into thin slices. You can also use the foodprocessor to do this for you. Make a dressing by adding the honey,dill and freshly grounded pepper to the vinegar of your choice. Do experiment with the different types of vinegar available nowadays. Since I added walnuts, I used walnut vinegar in this case. But white balsamic vinegar is good to use too. Just try to find a perfect balance of sweet and sour by adding the honey to taste. Dress the cucumber with the dressing. Leave it for at least 15 minutes aside so the cucumber becomes "pickled" by the dressing. Meanwhile coarsly chop the walnut. Sprinkle the walnuts over the top of the cucumber salad.

Some y'know's:
- Did you know that dill is classic combination with cucumber, but also eggs and fish.
- Dill was used by Hippocrates as an application on burns suffered by soldiers in ancient Rome.
- The green dill leaves have a sweet aroma and taste. When dried, the dill seeds are similar in taste to
  caraway seeds, and have a sweet and citric type flavor but slightly buttery as well. Derived from the Norse
  word dilla; it means to lull. Thus, this herb is used to induce sleep and is a great insomnia reliever.

Some variation tips:

- add some freshly chopped or dried flaked chili instead of pepper to the dressing.
- add some celery (chopped into 0.2 cm slices) to the cucumber.
- instead of walnuts use pine nuts.