Name These Fruits (or Vegetables)

February 13th, 2008, 12 Comments »

Feeling adventurous, Julie bought these at the vegetable souk today. We have no idea what they are. Do you (click for bigger legume action)?

Name This Fruit or Vegetable

I’ve included the iPod for scale.

UPDATE: Julie provides these additional notes: they have a hard, thick skin and a beet-red juice.

UPDATE #2: I stand corrected. Julie assured me that they weren’t prickly or ‘cactus pears’, but she cut one open and tasted it. Indeed, they’re very small cactus pears with very intensely-coloured juice.

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What is This Vegetable?

May 4th, 2007, 18 Comments »

Three thousand karma points for the first person to identify this peculiar vegetable that we accidently bought at the local grocer. It smells like broccoli.

What is This?

Bonus marks for instructions on how to prepare it.

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