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What are these vegetables?

Postby dprevis » Thu Sep 13, 2012 12:51 pm

Hello,

I just moved here over the weekend and have enjoyed my faoray into the vegetable market but am confounded by a couple of things. What are those very long squash-looking vegetables with a crooked neck? Do they have a name in English? how do you eat them?

Also, I have seen two different kinds of roots - one large and one small. What are they called and how do you eat them?

I am excited to try new foods so any advice will be appreciated!
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Re: What are these vegetables?

Postby Get Real! » Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:35 pm

:? Take some snapshots with your mobile phone and try again.
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Re: What are these vegetables?

Postby GreekIslandGirl » Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:39 pm

Are you thinking of gourds?

And the roots - are they like sweet potatoes or yams?
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Re: What are these vegetables?

Postby Get Real! » Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:41 pm

GreekIslandGirl wrote:Are you thinking of gourds?

Is that Kurds in Greek? :lol:
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Re: What are these vegetables?

Postby GreekIslandGirl » Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:43 pm

Get Real! wrote:
GreekIslandGirl wrote:Are you thinking of gourds?

Is that Kurds in Greek? :lol:


OK - that's funny. :lol:
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Re: What are these vegetables?

Postby Cap » Fri Sep 14, 2012 6:31 pm

Without a pic, can't help you dude.
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Re: What are these vegetables?

Postby Nikitas » Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:09 am

The man is talking about colodjia, kolokasi and poulles. All are edible.
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Re: What are these vegetables?

Postby kurupetos » Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:54 am

Nikitas wrote:The man is talking about colodjia, kolokasi and poulles. All are edible.

Colocasia esculenta. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colocasia_esculenta
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Re: What are these vegetables?

Postby CBBB » Thu Sep 27, 2012 11:07 am

Nikitas wrote:The man is talking about colodjia, kolokasi and poulles. All are edible.


Aren't kolokasi and poulles the same thing?
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Re: What are these vegetables?

Postby kurupetos » Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:03 pm

CBBB wrote:
Nikitas wrote:The man is talking about colodjia, kolokasi and poulles. All are edible.


Aren't kolokasi and poulles the same thing?

Poulles is young kolokasi. :wink:
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