Nina's Cucumber Salad

i added a bit more sour cream and instead of using fresh dill i used dried dill to give it more flavor

Perfect!

Cucumber salad just the way we like it - with fresh and light lemon juice rather than vinegar, and no sugar. I also loved the addition of the very thinly sliced red onion which gave it just a little bit of a bite.

Here's the good and the bad. What I like about this is the taste...it's good. What I don't like about it is that the sour cream dressing is so liquid-y that it just doesn't coat the cukes well. I used Publix house brand sour cream which tends to have more liquid than the brand names, so this may have contributed. Next time (yes, I'm going to try again) if I use the Publix brand, I will let the sour cream drain for a while (like you do with yogurt) to see if that will thicken it. It certainly is a nice cold side dish for summer and its heart healthy nutritional breakdown is fantastic.

The original recipe for this called for 3 cucumbers. Because my grandparents had their own garden, they always used homegrown vegetables, which were grown without pesticides and picked before the deer and animals could get them. This means that they were smaller than the cucumbers you often find in the grocery store today. Because of this, you may need to increase the sour cream in this recipe, depending on how much cucumber you have. When I mnade this using 3 large cucumbers from the grocery store, I ended up putting a cup of sour cream. Adjust accordingly and also to your personal preferences. The best way to make this is to add what you like! More dill, less onion, greek yogurt... This is very versatile.