Last night was book club with some of the teachers from school. We discussed the book Cold Snap. Yep that's the book that I was in love with this fall--here's my review of the novel <a href="../2010/10/22/cold-snap-and-cynthia-morrison-phoel/">Cold Snap</a>. The meeting last night made me want to re-read the book, like tonight.

There are a lot of wonderful moments in the book but one of them is this dog named Krastivtsa (or cucumber in English).  We we meet him in the book he kind of looks like a cucumber--long, skinny and fur-less.

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Anyhow in honor of Krastivtsa, I made the yummiest cucumber appetizer.  I've been trying to figure out what to call it since I made it. Most descriptive might be stuffed cucumber bites. Then there's deviled cucumbers--that's a take a deviled eggs. Or garlic-cream cheese logs.

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I thought about some play on twice baked potatoes but this dish never saw the oven.

Then I realized that if I'd added some dill to the mix I basically had a tarator-soup dip which one can convey to her mouth on a cucumber.

Yeah. These cucumber appetizers were very tasty.

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Want to make your own?