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Maui Onions
Two characteristics set the Maui onion apart from other yellow onions: the high sugar and high moisture content of its flesh.
White Corn
White corn is a sweet corn variety. Its ears are wrapped in tightly layered pale lime green to white husks. One ear of corn can contain up to 400 kernels growing in rows lengthwise.
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Seasons/Availability
Hot House Cucumbers are available year round.
Current Facts
Cucumbers, Cucumis sativa, are members of the important food plant family, Cucurbitaceae, which also includes melons, squashes and gourds. For culinary purposes, cucumbers are defined as either a slicing, burpless or pickling cucumber. The Hot House cucumber is classified as a burpless cucumber. It received its name specifically because it is grown in greenhouses under controlled environmental conditions, specifically heat and light. To preserve the cucumber's texture and water weight, it is shrink wrapped in air-tight plastic wrap, which doubles as visual recognition in the supermarket. Plastic sealing is an alternative method to waxing cucumbers, which is conventionally done to larger common slicing cucumber varieties to extend shelf-life. The Hot House cucumber is commonly referred to as an English cucumber and European cucumber.
Description/Taste
Hot House cucumbers distinguish themselves from common garden cucumbers by their texture, taste and edible skin. The skin is thin, furrowed and forest green in color. Though they are often marketed as seedless, which implies a sweeter cucumber, the pale green to translucent white flesh does contain seeds, though the seeds are underdeveloped and non-bitter. Hot House cucumbers can reach a length of two feet and still maintain a bright clean and sweet flavor, favorable moisture content and crisp texture.
Applications
As Hot House cucumbers' skin is thin, they make an ideal fresh slicing cucumber. They are a quintessential salad ingredient alongside mixed greens, kales and herbaceous greens such as arugula. Hot House cucumbers' crispness makes them a great textural component to chopped salads and pasta salads, sandwiches and sushi. They can be sliced lengthwise, widthwise, diced and julienned. Hot House cucumbers can be grilled, puréed or pickled. Complimentary ingredients include red and white fish, shellfish, lamb, beef, chiles, tomatoes, mint, oregano, yogurt, garlic, cumin, chicken, pork and fresh cheeses such as feta, ricotta and farmhouse style cheeses.
Geography/History
The first documentation of cucumbers being grown in a greenhouse-like controlled environment was during the Ancient Roman period. Cucumbers were stored in houses glazed with selenite crystals. The Romans were also attributed with developing the first modern greenhouses in the 13th Century. The use of greenhouses to cultivate cucumbers is due to two major factors. Cucumbers are a warm season crop with required growing conditions of 80 to 85 F and an abundance of full sunlight. Greenhouses can replicating those conditions in non-native or untraditional growing regions and during winter and early spring months, create additional seasons for cucumbers when they are naturally unavailable as a field crop.
Featured Restaurants
Restaurants currently purchasing this product as an ingredient for their menu.
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Seasons/Availability
Hot House Cucumbers are available year round.
Current Facts
Cucumbers, Cucumis sativa, are members of the important food plant family, Cucurbitaceae, which also includes melons, squashes and gourds. For culinary purposes, cucumbers are defined as either a slicing, burpless or pickling cucumber. The Hot House cucumber is classified as a burpless cucumber. It received its name specifically because it is grown in greenhouses under controlled environmental conditions, specifically heat and light. To preserve the cucumber's texture and water weight, it is shrink wrapped in air-tight plastic wrap, which doubles as visual recognition in the supermarket. Plastic sealing is an alternative method to waxing cucumbers, which is conventionally done to larger common slicing cucumber varieties to extend shelf-life. The Hot House cucumber is commonly referred to as an English cucumber and European cucumber.
Description/Taste
Hot House cucumbers distinguish themselves from common garden cucumbers by their texture, taste and edible skin. The skin is thin, furrowed and forest green in color. Though they are often marketed as seedless, which implies a sweeter cucumber, the pale green to translucent white flesh does contain seeds, though the seeds are underdeveloped and non-bitter. Hot House cucumbers can reach a length of two feet and still maintain a bright clean and sweet flavor, favorable moisture content and crisp texture.
Applications
As Hot House cucumbers' skin is thin, they make an ideal fresh slicing cucumber. They are a quintessential salad ingredient alongside mixed greens, kales and herbaceous greens such as arugula. Hot House cucumbers' crispness makes them a great textural component to chopped salads and pasta salads, sandwiches and sushi. They can be sliced lengthwise, widthwise, diced and julienned. Hot House cucumbers can be grilled, puréed or pickled. Complimentary ingredients include red and white fish, shellfish, lamb, beef, chiles, tomatoes, mint, oregano, yogurt, garlic, cumin, chicken, pork and fresh cheeses such as feta, ricotta and farmhouse style cheeses.
Geography/History
The first documentation of cucumbers being grown in a greenhouse-like controlled environment was during the Ancient Roman period. Cucumbers were stored in houses glazed with selenite crystals. The Romans were also attributed with developing the first modern greenhouses in the 13th Century. The use of greenhouses to cultivate cucumbers is due to two major factors. Cucumbers are a warm season crop with required growing conditions of 80 to 85 F and an abundance of full sunlight. Greenhouses can replicating those conditions in non-native or untraditional growing regions and during winter and early spring months, create additional seasons for cucumbers when they are naturally unavailable as a field crop.
Featured Restaurants
Restaurants currently purchasing this product as an ingredient for their menu.
| Wine Steals Point Loma | San Diego CA | 619-221-1959 |
| Prepkitchen La Jolla | San Diego CA | 858-875-7737 |
| Paradise Point Resort Main Kitchen | San Diego CA | 858-490-6363 |
| Truluck's Seafood Steak and Crab House | San Diego CA | 858-453-2583 |
| Barbarella | San Diego CA | 858-454-7373 |
| Leroy's Kitchen & Lounge | Coronado CA | 619-522-6890 |
| Kappa Sushi | San Diego CA | 858-566-3388 |
| Hard Rock Hotel Mary Janes | San Diego CA | 619-702-3000 |
| Finch's Wine Bar & Bistro | La Jolla CA | 858-456-4056 |
| Estancia Adobe | San Diego CA | 858-550-1000 |
| Trattoria I Trulli | Encinitas CA | 760-943-6800 |
| J six | San Diego CA | 619-531-8744 |
| Roy's San Diego | San Diego CA | 619-239-7697 |
| Crosby National Golf Club LLC | Rancho Santa Fe CA | 858-227-0172 |
| Cirque Du Soleil Totem | Del Mar CA | 702-513-2146 |
| Paradise Point Resort Purchasing | San Diego CA | 858-490-6363 |
| Bice Ristorante | San Diego CA | 469-450-3519 |
| Paradise Grille | Del Mar CA | 858-350-0808 |
| The Lion Share | San Diego CA | 619-564-6924 |
| D Bar SoCal | San Diego CA | 619-632-7644 |
| Toronado San Diego | San Diego CA | 619-282-0456 |
| Cody's at the Cove | San Diego CA | 858-459-0040 |
| We Olive La Jolla | San Diego CA | 858-551-8250 |
| The Bristol Hotel | San Diego CA | 877-784-6835 |
| Eddie V's La Jolla | San Diego CA | 858-459-5500 |
| The Tavern | Coronado CA | 602-628-5890 |
| Burger Lounge La Jolla | San Diego CA | 858-456-0196 |
| Blue Point / Coastal Cuisine | San Diego CA | 619-233-6623 |
| Crab Catcher La Jolla | San Diego CA | 858-454-9587 |
| Fishery | San Diego CA | 858-272-9985 |
| US Grant Hotel Main | San Diego CA | 619-232-3121 |
| Delta Zeta | San Diego CA | 858-337-7536 |
| El Dorado Lounge | San Diego CA | 858-361-4633 marshal |
| Solace & the Moonlight Lounge | Encinitas CA | 760-753-2433 |
| Point Loma Seafood | San Diego CA | 619-223-1109 |
| Pacifica Del Mar | Del Mar CA | 858-792-0505 |
| La Villa | San Diego CA | 619 255 5544 |
| Alchemy Restaurant | San Diego CA | 619-255-0616 |
| Rubicon Deli Pacific Beach | San Diego CA | 858-488-3354 |
| Prepkitchen Little Italy | San Diego CA | 619-247-0394 |
| Paradise Point Resort Baleen | San Diego CA | 858-490-6363 |
| Marriott Courtyard | San Diego CA | 619-446-3008 |
| Bistro West | Carlsbad CA | 760-431-9195 |
| Burlap Bar | San Diego CA | 858-369-5700 |
| Mille Fleurs | Rancho Santa Fe CA | 858-756-9085 |
| Waters Catering | San Diego CA | 619-276-8803 |
| Analog | San Diego CA | 619-233-1183 |
| Marine Room | San Diego CA | 858-551-4676 |
| Pantry in Rancho Santa Fe | Rancho Santa Fe CA | 858-756-1221 |
| Crush | Solana Beach CA | 858-481-2787 |
| The Keating Lounge and Restaurant | San Diego CA | 619-814-5700 |
| Sheraton La Jolla | San Diego CA | 858-453-5500 |
| Sorority Cuisine - Kappa Delta | San Diego CA | 510-512-2213 |
| Third Corner Ocean Beach | San Diego CA | 619-223-2700 |
| San Diego Culinary Institute Inc. | La Mesa CA | 619-644-2100 |
| Craft and Commerce Bar | San Diego CA | 619-962-5935 |
| Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center | National City CA | 619-434-4281 |
| Petco Park (Catering) | San Diego CA | 619-795-5917 |
| Prado at Balboa Park Kitchen | San Diego CA | 619-744-3732 |
| Saiko Sushi | Coronado CA | 619-435-0868 |
| Bernard'O Restaurant | San Diego CA | 858-487-7171 |
| Market Restaurant and Bar | Del Mar CA | 858-523-0007 |
| Whisknladle | San Diego CA | 858-551-7575 |
| Dolce Pane & Vino | Del Mar CA | 858-832-1518 |
| Saffron | San Diego CA | 619-574-7737 |
| Phil Barth | San Diego CA | 812-309-0033 |
| Claire's on Cedros | Solana Beach CA | 858-259-8597 |
| Terra Restaurant | San Diego CA | 619-293-7088 |
| Twisted Vine | San Diego CA | 858-780-2501 |
| Azul La Jolla | San Diego CA | 858-454-9677 |
| Del Mar Country Club | Rancho Santa Fe CA | 858-759-5500 x207 |
| Gabardine | San Diego CA | 619-398-9810 |
| Roppongi | San Diego CA | 858-551-5252 |
| Union Kitchen & Tap | Encinitas CA | 760-230-2337 |
| Bankers Hill Restaurant and Bar | San Diego CA | 619-231-0222 |
| Amici's East Coast Pizzeria | San Diego CA | 858-729-9988 |
| Cal A Vie | Vista CA | 760-945-2055 |
| La Valencia | San Diego CA | 858-551-3750 |
| Bleu Boheme | San Diego CA | 619-255-4167 |
| The Patio on Lamont Street | San Diego CA | 619-235-5606 |
| US Grant Hotel Grill | San Diego CA | 619-232-3121 |
| Snooze H.C, LLC | San Diego CA | 619-500-3344 |
| Croces | San Diego CA | 619-233-4355 |
| Solana Beach Presbyterian Church | Solana Beach CA | 858-509-2580 |
| Toast Catering | La Mesa CA | 619-464-0201 |
| Searsucker | San Diego CA | 619-233-7327 |
| Currant | San Diego CA | 619-702-6309 |
| Quality Social | San Diego CA | 773-456-1380 |
| Paradise Point Resort Barefoot | San Diego CA | 858-490-6363 |
| Vagabond | San Diego CA | 619-255-1035 |
| Blue Pearl | San Diego CA | 619-222-4198 |
| Villa Capri Cucina Italiana | San Diego CA | 858-720-8777 |
| Petco Park (Sushi) | San Diego CA | 619-920-8899 |
| Noble Experiment | San Diego CA | 619-446-0002 |
| Fish 101 | Encinitas CA | 415-308-5572 |
| Shimbashi Izakaya | Del Mar CA | 858-523-0479 |
| Lodge at Torrey Pines Grill | San Diego CA | 858-453-4420 |
| Tapenade | San Diego CA | 858-551-7500 |
| The Elegant Truffle | San Diego CA | 619-222-1889 |
| Firefly Beach | San Diego CA | 619-222-6440 |
| Golden Door | San Marcos CA | 760-744-5777 |
| La Costa Resort & Spa | Carlsbad CA | 760-930-7063 |
| Just Call Us Catering | San Diego CA | 858-461-3674 |
Recipe Ideas
Recipes that include Hot House Cucumbers. One
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