Cucumber and Tomato Salad

Remove the stems from your cherry tomatoes and rinse them. Lay them out on a cutting board. Holding the tomatoes down with your palm, carefully slice between your cutting board and your palm to halve the tomatoes. This is a bit of a sloppy shortcut. If you want to stay classy, cut the tomatoes individually for a much cleaner result, but this is just a quick salad to round out a barbecue, so we'll go the easy rout.

Now, to get a more interesting texture from our cucumber, we're going to beat it up a bit. Grab anything you've got that's sturdy and has some wait to it (a mallet, or a rolling pin or something. Pound the cucumber along it's length, just hard enough to split it's sides.

Now, toss in your tomatoes.

Tear off a handful of fresh parsley and rip it up. Add it to the bowl.