Saturday, January 06, 2007
Unidentified Flying Vegetables!!!
Okay, so they're not flying. Whatever. But can you identify them? I'd love to learn the names in English for these Indian vegetables, if such names actually exist. I found them while wandering through the local wholesale outdoor market where the vegetable-wallahs and fruit-wallahs come to fill their carts.
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No clue about the first one, but the fruit in the second picture could big gooseberries. The 3rd picture I'm pretty sure shows the vegetable "Kohlrabi". Not sure what the english name is though - maybe cabbage turnip? We usually eat it raw or cooked and served with sauce hollandaise and potatoes.
The first one definitely looks like some species of yam (though one of them actually looks like a chicken carcass with all the stubs in the right places..heehee...can you spot it?).
The second one... unripe kumquats (a fruit?) or some bitter Thai cucumbers (not the formal name, but the cooks at Baan Thai used to make them in curry for the staff all the time.
Johanna is right about the last: kohlrabi.
Those are my stabs in the dark.
I do see the chicken!
Sounds like some utterance of enlightenment: "I do see the chicken!"
Have you tried to eat them all? That sweet potatoish one looks especially good! YUM! I love discovering random new fruits and veggies when I travel. Like Kumara, purple sweet potato, in NZ, and like Jicama in Mexico.
Ok, Consider me all updated and caught up on your blog. Woo hoo!
ONE OF THEM IS CLEARLY A FRUIT! I CALL TRICK QUESTION!
OK, I've had my vent for the day. Nice mehndi by the way. You need to contact me and tell me whether the mother ship has gotten back to you on the you-know-what.
Oh, and the black crow flies over the pale moon at midnight.
I e-mailed you at your work e-mail about that! (Or were you talking about something else??) First weekend in May good for you?
Naw, about where you're going next year...
I'm still in the dark, I'm afraid. I'm a little scared to find out though because I don't want to be disappointed.
I just had to write a comment, because the verification word was very clearly "ugggnya."
Well, here's hoping next stop is man-tastic.
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