Cucumber Cups

This week on pandagrub we are going to be making mango salsa cucumber cups.

The panda sunning himself in the picture above is named Spicy. Spicy is sitting with the ingredients used to make the cucumber cups. He is lying down with 1 cucumber, tomatoes, a mango, limes, and an onion.

Spicy is peeling the skin off of a cucumber. If you want a pretty cucumber design, peel a strip of the cucumber skin every half inch or so.

After your done peeling the cucumber, cut the cucumber into one inch slices. Doesn't this picture look like a vertebrae?

Now Spicy and I are scooping the insides of the cucumber out. It's easy to scoop the insides out of the cucumber if you use a melon baller. If you don't have a melon baller you can use a teaspoon. Make sure you don't scoop too much of the inside of the cucumber out or it will make a hole and all the salsa will fall out.

Now we are making the mango salsa. To make the salsa dice the onion, tomatoes,and mangoes. Add a dash of salt and the juice of one lime.

After you make the salsa, scoop it into your cut cucumbers.

Spicy loved the cucumber cups! He thinks that they're the perfect treat for Summer. I hope you enjoy this refreshing recipe. 

Homemade Quesadillas

Sorry that I haven't been on in a while. I went to Mexico City and Cancun for spring break. In honor of my trip to Mexico, let's make quesadillas!  This is one of my most favorite foods in the world. After a long gymnastics practice, I like to eat quesadillas because they aren't too filling, but they satisfy my hunger.

 To make the quesadilla, we layered cheese, tomatoes, and avocados on a tortilla and put it in a frying pan. Then we laid the other tortilla on top of it.  To reduce the fat content, my mom just sprays the pan with non-stick spray instead of using butter.  (However, as you probably know, butter tastes soooooo good.  Sometimes in Mexico, they used lard.)

 This is what the quesadilla looked like when we finished cooking it. The quesadilla was delicious, as the avocados were a perfect match for the tomatoes and gooey cheddar cheese. The smooth avocado really softens the tartness of the tomato.

The panda in the picture above is named Stuboom. Stuboom enjoyed the quesadilla almost as much as I did!  I brought Stuboom to Mexico.  He was a wonderful traveling companion.

This is the view from our hotel room in Cancun. From our hotel you can see the beach! I almost dropped Stuboom off of our hotel balcony!:o

This is a picture of me doing a handstand on the beach in Cancun. Look how clean and unpolluted the water is! The sand was so soft and smooth that it felt like a blanket! 

I hope you enjoyed this post!

I hope everyone had a great spring break!