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Cucumbersome recipe
Published: 6/9/2008 4:24 PM
Last Modified: 6/9/2008 4:24 PM

I really hope y'all haven't been scouring Tulsa for cucumber extract.

It was one ingredient from a make-it-yourself facial spritz in my Fashion Flash column this Sunday. A reader went looking for it and, perhaps not surprisingly to those of you who spend more than two minutes in your kitchen, couldn't find it. Sorry, I only buy Diet Coke and cat food at the grocery store, so I just assumed cucumber came before orange and vanilla in the extract department.

Anyhoo, so my two food experts within hollerin' distance -- food writer Natalie Mikles and assistant Scene editor Ashley Parrish -- suggested that, in lieu of cucumber extract, just puree some cucumbers, set them over a sieve, and let them drain. Voila, Mary, you've got extract -- a bit chunky, perhaps, but whatever.

Here's the recipe, a soothing cleansing mist for face and body, which you can make yourself at home.

Ingredients:
1 teaspoon hydrogen peroxide (2.5 percent active, or less)
1 teaspoon lemon extract
1 teaspoon cucumber extract (whiz it up in a blender; watch out for chunks, though, as it won't spritz from a bottle so smoothly)
1 cup of water

Directions:
1. Combine all ingredients together in a small spray bottle, and shake for 10 seconds.
2. Spray onto face and body periodically during hot weather.
Note: Vanilla extract is NOT an appropriate substitute.

Peace, love and extractions ... xoxo


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While other kids were watching "The Smurfs," Scene Writer Jason Ashley Wright was tuned in to "Style with Elsa Klensch." By fourth grade, he knew he wanted to write, and spent almost three years publishing a weekly teen-oriented magazine, Teen-Zine -- circulation: 2. After earning a degree in journalism from the University of Southern Mississippi, he became the medical reporter and teen board coordinator for the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American, a Gannett newspaper. Eight months later, with visions of Elsa dancing in his head, he applied for the fashion writer position at the Tulsa World, where he began working on Aug. 3, 1998. He is now a general assignment reporter for Scene.

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