{"id":84,"date":"2013-10-23T15:12:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T15:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2015-07-08T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T16:08:08","slug":"cucumber-avocado-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Cucumber Avocado Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want fresh?\u00a0 And delicious?\u00a0 We got it!\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cukepre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-87\" alt=\"cukepre\" src=\"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cukepre-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cukepre-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cukepre.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0I don&#8217;t know\u00a0why it took me til <em>this year <\/em>to make this.\u00a0 It&#8217;s crunchy and citrus-y goodness.\u00a0 And simple.\u00a0 Did I mention SIMPLE?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n<p>4 small English cucumbers (about 4 -5 inches in length)\u00a0 if the little gourmet ones aren&#8217;t available, substitute 1 large English cucumber.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1\/4 red onion, sliced thin then chopped<\/p>\n<p>1 large, ripe avocado<\/p>\n<p>1 lemon or lime<\/p>\n<p>salt<\/p>\n<p>extra virgin olive oil<\/p>\n<p>Cut the cukes\u00a0in half, and then quarters,\u00a0lengthwise.\u00a0 Then chop the long quarters into small quartermoon shapes.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cuke1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-85\" alt=\"cuke1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cuke1-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cuke1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cuke1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cuke2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-86\" alt=\"cuke2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cuke2-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cuke2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cuke2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Dice up the onion slices.\u00a0 Then, halve your avocado.\u00a0 Keeping it in the shell, use a small paring knife to dice the avocado, scoring all the way to the skin.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cuke4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-89\" alt=\"cuke4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cuke4-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cuke4-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cuke4.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cuke3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-88\" alt=\"cuke3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cuke3-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cuke3-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cuke3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> Then, use a spoon to scoop out the diced up avocado.\u00a0 Everything goes into your bowl.\u00a0 Add salt to taste (for us, about 1 tsp. Himalayan pink salt).\u00a0 Squeeze the lemon or lime juice into your bowl.\u00a0 Drizzle\u00a0a circle of extra virgin olive oil into and gently fold it all together\u00a0(to keep from destroying the avocado).\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cukepre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-87\" alt=\"cukepre\" src=\"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cukepre-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cukepre-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cukepre.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>And, there you have it!\u00a0 You can thank me later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want fresh?\u00a0 And delicious?\u00a0 We got it!\u00a0 \u00a0I don&#8217;t know\u00a0why it took me til this year to make this.\u00a0 It&#8217;s crunchy and citrus-y goodness.\u00a0 And simple.\u00a0 Did I mention SIMPLE?\u00a0 Ingredients: 4 small English cucumbers (about 4 -5 inches in length)\u00a0 if the little gourmet ones aren&#8217;t available, substitute 1 large English cucumber.\u00a0 1\/4 red [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,26,9,3],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-avocado","tag-bali-friendly","tag-salad","tag-vegan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.downdogsaltydog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}