neglected garden reaps huge yellow cucumbers

We were away for a month and the cucumbers came in during our absence. Despite our pleas to our neighbors to eat whatever comes in there were just too many. Is there a recipie that we can use these humongous yellow cucumbers? Are they edible?

Pickles.

Some years ago I worked in a garden that had too many hills of cukes and zukes. We'd get cukes 2' long, and zukes close to 3', if we missed them, and they grew a few days too long. Like you, couldn't find enough people to take them off our hands.

The pickles we made from sections of big cukes were pretty poor in quality, but that may have been from a lack of pickle making skill. Our smaller pickles were pretty good tho'.

We would halve the zukes, and fill them with various things, and bake them as "zucchini boat." those were pretty good. I understand that cukes can be used for baking in a similar fashion,. and that they work well as a base for pancakes, like zucchini.

Our eventual solution was to just dump the excess into the compost pile, and be more vigilant in out picking. There was enough time left in the season to still get heaps of tiny 2 or 3 day old veggies. A few pecks a day instead of a few bushels.

I made a nice japanese style salad with a huge cucumber yeaterday.
I cut off most of the peel, leaving a few strips dor pretty-ness
I also scooped out the seeds, and cut the cuke in half lengthwise
I then sliced it very thin and dressed it with a mix of:
malt vinegar (I would have used rice vinegar if I had it)
honey
soy sauce
sesame oil

I adjusted the amounts until it was sweet-sour, with a hint of salt.
Let it sit in the frig an hour or so, turning it every now and then.
Very cool and refreshing.

Sesame seeds would have been a nice garnish, but I didn't have any...

I take my extra large pickles to the neighbor who then chops them up and feeds them to his pigs!

Once they've turned yellow they are seriously overripe. Peel and seed one and see how they taste, if they're palatable (and not too mushy) you can try using them as pickles or in relish - basically anything with a strong flavor where crispness doesn't matter too much. I uncoverd a couple I had missed this morning that were huge and fully yellow, I just tossed them in the compost - I have too many cucumbers right now to worry about ones that are past their prime.

I also like to run over them with my lawn mower

actually the one I used for the salad was very large but still dark green.
It tasted great, but the peel was very tough.

Peel, seed and slice them the long way into quarters. Then use them as a bed for baking fish fillets.

I was half watching some cooking show the other day and freely admit I stole the idea from it. The TV chef also added sliced zukes and herbs then covered the pan in foil. The cukes gave up their liquid which became the base for sauce. Looked quite tasty.

we have a cucumber plant in our backyard and it's a demonic thing grown up to the garage roof and not a cuke to be found on that sumbitch