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Old January 24, 2009   #1
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Do you ever experiment by eating/using vegetables in non-traditional manners? Did it work or not?

After vine borers killed my Kakai pumpkin vines a couple of years ago, I sliced up the immature pumpkins (up to softball size) and ate them as raw crudites with a dip. Works with other immature winter squashes as well. Very good.

Last week I made Kielbasa bean soup and added some okra seeds to it. The okra seeds (they were harvested from dried pods) stayed hard in the soup, even after simmering for over an hour. Visually, they were a nice touch but otherwise, unh-uh.
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Old January 24, 2009   #2
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Do you ever experiment by eating/using vegetables in non-traditional manners? Did it work or not?

Last week I made Kielbasa bean soup and added some okra seeds to it. The okra seeds (they were harvested from dried pods) stayed hard in the soup, even after simmering for over an hour. Visually, they were a nice touch but otherwise, unh-uh.
Yeah, I did that with a hardy beef stew, only with white pepper corns. I figured that they were "white" so not as peppery --- wrong!

Boy, next time I'll stick with whole barley grain.

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Do you ever experiment by eating/using vegetables in non-traditional manners? Did it work or not?

After vine borers killed my Kakai pumpkin vines a couple of years ago, I sliced up the immature pumpkins (up to softball size) and ate them as raw crudites with a dip. Works with other immature winter squashes as well. Very good.

Last week I made Kielbasa bean soup and added some okra seeds to it. The okra seeds (they were harvested from dried pods) stayed hard in the soup, even after simmering for over an hour. Visually, they were a nice touch but otherwise, unh-uh.
Ruth,

I guess the Narragansetts knew something when they named it askutasquash (a green thing eaten raw).

Gary

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Old January 30, 2009   #4
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Ruth, I also use immature winter squash, in stir fries, shish kabobs, as well as soup or stew. I think you could also pickle them, although I have never tried it.
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