Wonderdog 🏳️‍🌈3d ago
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
Show threadMichael Strasser3d 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.
Show threadMichael Strasser
@caity I am still a choko virgin.
Mar 22 at 6:21amWeb
Show threadWonderdog 🏳️‍🌈3d ago
@pharsicle Never?!
Show threadMichael Strasser3d ago
@caity Not yet.
Show threadWonderdog 🏳️‍🌈3d ago
@pharsicle Just had air fryer roasted chokos with dinner. May be new favourite.
Show threadMichael Strasser3d 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?).
Show threadWonderdog 🏳️‍🌈3d 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.