Like most of Hungary, over the past weeks we’ve succumbed to the traditional torpor of uborkaszezon (“cucumber season”), that time of summer when so little happens that the media is obliged to publish stories about the size and character of the annual cucumber harvest. Unfortunately, we’ve been so damn busy doing nothing we actually managed to miss the two big cucumber stories of the season, namely that a shipment of more than 1,000 kilograms of cucumbers delivered to Hungarian supermarket chain CBA in early July was found to contain almost 20 times the allowed level of pesticides, and, more shockingly, that a 35-year old woman from Esztergom found the “penis cucumber” pictured above while shopping, and didn’t have the heart to cut it up because it “reminded her of her husband too much.” Which is almost a shame, because there are so many good things to do with cucumbers here in Hungary, as the following uborka-centric recipes we’ve just grabbed onto demonstrate. Enjoy, and see you sometime in the next week or so.