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A Bowl of Chilled Cucumber Soup to Cool Down on a Sweaty Summer Day
A no-cook Korean chilled cucumber soup (oi-naengguk) made with garden-fresh cucumbers — tangy, refreshing, and ready in minutes for hot summer days.
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Quick Refrigerator Pickles from Your Misfit Cucumbers
Summer cucumbers ripen all at once, and plenty of them come out crooked or uneven. They taste just fine, so when you can't eat them all fresh, turn them into quick refrigerator pickles. They're ready in a day — all you need is the right brine ratio and to pour it on hot.
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Five-Minute Pesto from Just-Picked Basil
As summer deepens, balcony basil grows faster than you can keep up with. The easiest answer is a fresh pesto you can whip up in five minutes with nothing but a blender.