3-2-1 Spicy Cucumbers

When I was in the Food Network TV cooking competition season of my life, I found Michael Ruhlman’s book Ratio to be really helpful. In fact, it was a relief to know that I’m not the only one who looked at recipes the way he does. Everything is all about ratios. In pastry school, we were trained to look at recipes based on percentages. The largest amount of ingredients would be assigned 100%. Everything else would be a percentage of that main ingredient. For