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Arvo, Toots! And so, it begins ... #Chokos to the left of us, chokos to the right of us, chokos as far as the eye can see.
And a few late self sown cherry tomatoes, plus the chillies are going strong.
I love chokos, so I am happy! Stir fries, baked, roasted and stuffed, soups ... Tonight will be an air fry experiment. And yes, we also eat the young tasty tendrils of the plant in stir fries.
From now until about September, depending on whether we get a hard frost. They keep pretty well, too.
#FromTheGarden

Citizen ❎️❎️3d ago

@caity delicious!

@caity I need to get me a place to grow chokos! I am not sure where but will keep thinking.

Heather Evans 3d ago

@caity
I love chokos too, can’t seem to grow them though. I didn’t plant chillies this year & it was a mistake, fresh chillies are awesome.

Anthony 🇦🇺🦘🐨🪃🌟✨️🕯🏏🧩🎭🪁3d ago

@feather1952 @caity never had chokos. What are they like? 🤔

Maude Nificent 3d ago

@skyfire747 @feather1952 @caity

as a young’un, any vegetables i was given were invariably overcooked, and smothered in gluggy, bland, white sauce, so i was never tempted to try cooking chokos after i left home

but, chokos area popular food around the world. i bet @caity would have some good recipe ideas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chayote

Chayote - Wikipedia

Wonderdog 🏳️‍🌈3d ago

@skyfire747 @feather1952 Very mild flavour, best to imagine them like zucchini, I think? Or those small green squash you can sometimes get?
People used to say they were the "apple" in McDonald's hot apple pies, because they were cheaper than apples!

Heather Evans 3d ago

@caity @skyfire747
I agree with your taste description. Very versatile & the whole thing is edible even the seed. Absolutely no waste at all. Spices, garlic & the like enhance them.

Trish Roberts 2d ago

@caity @skyfire747 @feather1952 I heard that! I love the McDonald’s hot apple pies. Haven’t had one for years, maybe I won’t bother if it’s choko

Heather Evans 2d ago

@caity @skyfire747 @treleanor
Urban myth but was sometimes used to bulk up apples by housewives during hard times like the depression & war.

Trish Roberts 1d ago

@feather1952 @caity @skyfire747 That makes sense.

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@feather1952 bring back the long-drop backyard fibro dunny, with chicken wire up the side! choko nirvana. @caity

Citizen ❎️❎️3d ago

@MsDropbear42 @feather1952 @caity
Chokos do love a very nutrient dense soil

Ewen Bell 📸3d ago

@caity

Pretty photo :)

What happened to the rest of the fan? 🤪

Take the fan guard off, toss the chokos into the spinning fan, ta-da sliced chokos.

Wonderdog 🏳️‍🌈3d ago

@isol chonk chonk chonk...🤣

Wonderdog 🏳️‍🌈3d ago

@isol We have a house that faces entirely the wrong way on the block - the bedrooms have westerly facing windows, the front room is north facing, and the entire thing was constructed out of timber stolen from the local sawmill, by workers in 1950s, built on their days off.
Not a parallel angle in the place.

So airflow is tricky, and we go through fans - constantly running them, 24/7, 365.

And himself cannot bring himself to throw out useful bits when they could be "repurposed" ...

Melissa BearTrix 3d ago

Chokos gives me memories of high school, we had to walk down a lane way to get to PE, I hated it and the teacher hated me ... Back to the story ... So at one end there was a huge choko vine ... And I was hit by many of them ... Hugz

Were they really in MacDonald apple pies ?

What is the flavour of them ?

Hugz & xXx

Jude🇵🇸3d ago

@caity Yummo!!

Michael Strasser 3d ago

@caity I lived in a student house once with ‘volunteer’ chokos and pumpkins growing in the garden. We never ate either because none of us had eaten chokos before and one (not me) hated pumpkin.

Michael Strasser 3d ago

@caity I am still a choko virgin.

Wonderdog 🏳️‍🌈3d ago

@pharsicle Never?!

Michael Strasser 2d ago

@caity Not yet.

Wonderdog 🏳️‍🌈2d ago

@pharsicle Just had air fryer roasted chokos with dinner. May be new favourite.

Michael Strasser 2d ago

@caity How did you prepare them? I have this vague memory of being told that chokos are really bland and watery (sort of like wet tofu?).

Wonderdog 🏳️‍🌈2d ago

@pharsicle Tonight was: cut chokos into quarters, small spray of oil (we don't buy spray oil, we decant oil from bigger bottle into special squirter bottle) and into air fryer for 8 minutes, 180 degrees, check if fork tender (were not, so did again for another 6.)
Served with the outer crispy skin broken (ooops!) and a small amount of butter, along side the other veges.
Really mellow but intense flavour, reminded me somewhat of good baked pumpkin.

Daniel Reeders 2d ago

@caity Oh man they are PROLIFIC.

Also you've got the GOOD chillies, the Thai cilipadis that make insanely fragrant stirfries. If you have a Chinese BBQ place near you, get some crispy pork belly, dry fry it til smoky, add minced garlic and chopped cilipadis, add oyster sauce 50sec (no more) after that, then dump blanched gai lan (Chinese broccoli) in and stirfry like mad. Serve with a fried egg on steamed rice. You will not regret it!

An old #Aussie #Choko #recipebook #mirliton #chayote

https://www.mirliton.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/chokoes-recipe-book.pdf