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My daughter loves to cut cucumbers (Persian/English ones with limited seeds and a pretty solid core) into little serving vessels.
She gets a 5cm/2inch diameter cuke, chops it into 4cm/1.5inch cylinders, uses a melon baller to scoop out most of the middle - making a kind of cucumber-based cup, then she fills it up with whatever she's fashioned out of available ingredients.
She's done guacamole, egg salad, some kind of bizarre ham and soy sauce and carrot thing, a Philadelphia-cream-cheese-based mix, leftover fried-rice. Basically, whatever you can ram into a cucumber goes!
If you want a fun way to plate different taste sensations it's an attractive presentation option! It also serves to "revitalise" leftovers, providing an alternative serving platform to keep finicky-eaters engaged. It also also means you don't need a knife/fork and maybe not even another plate apart from the serving one, so saves you some washing up ๐
En Guete!