When the temperature is high, a crisp, refreshing salad can be just the thing when you know you need something, but it's just too hot to eat! Creating a salad is a simple process, far quicker to make the "real" thing than the miniature, inedible variety! Slicing and dicing the cucumbers and tomatoes takes mere minutes for the real life salad but, boy, making those tomato and cucumber canes from polymer clay takes almost as long as it takes the fruits - yes, fruits, as they have enclosed seeds and develop from a flower - to grow for real!