ISO: ISO Cheezz, your cucumber sandwiches are amazing. I gave them a trial run tonight,

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I used squaw bread, and at first I assembled them like a big 2-slice sandwich and cut the crusts off, then cut them into triangles. It's how I do my pink salmon spread on white bread, and the green cucumber filling on dark bread, also cut in triangles, would have been the reverse visually.

They would have looked great on the same platter, but it was too much bread for the delicate taste of cucumber and cream cheese, and we ended up discarding the top. I will make them open face on rounds as you suggest, or maybe squares. Symmetry be damned--they'll just have their own platter.

I put a little paprika in the cheese mixture for color instead of sprinkling it on the cucumbers.

Thanks again for a great recipe.

http://eat.at/swap/forum1/139130_I_have_made_them_the_night_before_with_no_problem

 
This is one that everyone asks for - sort of an "elevated status" cucumber sandwich

Glad you liked them! And stick with the wimpy white bread - open-faced... it's the only way too go smileys/smile.gif

 
I need the dark bread for visual reasons. It's really good! We had them for lunch again

I decided on spreading a whole slice with the cream cheese, topping with overlapping slices of cucumber, and then slicing into crustless triangles. I sprinkled with paprika. I'll take a picture for you at the party.

The leftover crusts were good as a dipper for cleaning out the cream cheese bowl afterwards.

 
I find a lot of little fingers coming in and stealing the crusts just for that reason smileys/smile.gif

 
Cheezz, I never got a picture taken, but the platter was beautiful. I piled salmon sandwiches

cut in triangles in the center of a long platter. Then I did your open-face sandwiches, also cut in triangles, as a border, like a line of arrows. They were a hit.

This was a baby shower and when it was over, the pregnant honoree was suddenly hungry! I had put the leftovers into clamshell to-go containers and she meekly asked if she might open them. She'd been meeting and greeting all afternoon and had hardly eaten She just scarfed up those sandwiches.

 
Thanks, Barb. December has always been a good month, except for last December, which was a bust.

Usually even the worst caterers on the planet were busy in December. Last December I had absolutely nothing. This year, the shock of the economy seems to have worn off and people are cautiously starting to hire again.

"Sigh."

Wish us all luck!

 
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