Store any leftover cucumber hummus bites in an airtight container in the fridge. I stack them on top of each other in a round container (like what Chinese food soup comes in) and that works for me. They’ll be good for about two days that way.

The cucumber at the bottom will get a little soggy because of all the moisture leaving the cucumbers and accumulating at the bottom of the container, but the rest will be nice crisp cucumbers.

I don’t peel the cucumbers when I use them as appetizers. The green ring around the cucumber just gives them such a nice color.

Many people comment that cucumber has a thicker skin than other vegetables and should be peeled, but I don’t agree with that.

English cucumbers, the ones that come wrapped in plastic, give you really crisp cucumber slices when you cut them. That’s great.

However, those slices (although they are a perfect round shape and they’re all pretty much uniform) are so small, so you don’t get as much satisfaction out of eating one as you do with the regular, large cucumbers you buy in your grocery store. So, if you’re making these for your next party, you’ll need to make so many from a long, thin English cucumber to fill your serving tray, and it will just be more time consuming and you won’t love this recipe and it won’t become your new favorite. And that would be really sad.

So stick with the traditional cucumbers. Trust me.

If you don’t like cucumbers, or if you have a ton of zucchini in your garden instead of cucumbers, you can use that as the base of this delicious appetizer instead. It just, well, wouldn’t be considered a cucumber appetizer since you’re not using cucumbers.

I mentioned this above, but you can use any hummus in this. I use dill hummus because dill weed goes really well with cucumbers, but you can use your favorite hummus, whatever that is.

I made these for our July 4th party, where one of our friends who is vegan is coming. So, I didn’t add the feta cheese to some of them.

She told me that you can actually buy vegan feta cheese at Whole Foods, which is very good. So, you can make these either without feta or with vegan feta.

This is definitely an appetizer. However, if you have leftovers and don’t want to just eat this as is, you could throw the leftover cucumber bites into a piece of pita bread for a Mediterranean cucumber sandwich. A little schmear of tzatziki or fresh yogurt dip on the inside of the pita would be really good to add so this isn’t so dry as a sandwich.