No car means no grocery shop means making dinner from whatever is in the fridge. Thank goodness my sister off-loaded some vegetables on me that survived the crash and the cross-city train expedition.
Open the cupboard and the fridge and assemble the contents. Rice, two onions, three small carrots, firm tofu, expired mushroom stir-fry sauce (those dates are meaningless to me) and then the vegetables from my sister’s mother-in-law’s garden: a sphere-shaped zucchini, a green capsicum and a yellow orb.
My sister called the yellow orb squash but it sure isn’t the normal patty-pan stuff I’ve seen before. Googling isn’t a huge amount of help. Since the zucchini is such an abnormal shape it’s hard to diagnose what else is on my counter-top. Maybe it’s a summer squash. I’ll proceed as if it’s a malformed patty-pan squash.
Chop chop chop, tears over the onions, chop chop chop.
Start slicing the squash into discs… wow, it’s almost like a cucumber inside. Crunchy, with a lot of water and seeds. Taste a little bit. Yup, wet and neutral, just like cucumber.
In fact, I bet that’s what it is. A yellow cucumber. My sister just didn’t know what it was either.
And I’m about to toss it into a stir-fry. That seems a little unadvised but it’s buried in with the other vegetables now. Nothing else for it!
The vegies are pretty done. I pick out a piece of the cucumber for a taste. Hey, not bad! I was worried that the heat would break it down but it’s still got its crunchy texture. Maybe this will work after all.
And it does. The fresh crispness is great for a random summer stir-fry and doesn’t have any of the bitterness I feared that an actual squash would have.
Yellow Cucumber
No car means no grocery shop means making dinner from whatever is in the fridge. Thank goodness my sister off-loaded some vegetables on me that survived the crash and the cross-city train expedition.
Open the cupboard and the fridge and assemble the contents. Rice, two onions, three small carrots, firm tofu, expired mushroom stir-fry sauce (those dates are meaningless to me) and then the vegetables from my sister’s mother-in-law’s garden: a sphere-shaped zucchini, a green capsicum and a yellow orb.
My sister called the yellow orb squash but it sure isn’t the normal patty-pan stuff I’ve seen before. Googling isn’t a huge amount of help. Since the zucchini is such an abnormal shape it’s hard to diagnose what else is on my counter-top. Maybe it’s a summer squash. I’ll proceed as if it’s a malformed patty-pan squash.
Chop chop chop, tears over the onions, chop chop chop.
Start slicing the squash into discs… wow, it’s almost like a cucumber inside. Crunchy, with a lot of water and seeds. Taste a little bit. Yup, wet and neutral, just like cucumber.
In fact, I bet that’s what it is. A yellow cucumber. My sister just didn’t know what it was either.
And I’m about to toss it into a stir-fry. That seems a little unadvised but it’s buried in with the other vegetables now. Nothing else for it!
The vegies are pretty done. I pick out a piece of the cucumber for a taste. Hey, not bad! I was worried that the heat would break it down but it’s still got its crunchy texture. Maybe this will work after all.
And it does. The fresh crispness is great for a random summer stir-fry and doesn’t have any of the bitterness I feared that an actual squash would have.
Rating:
Specifics: probably yellow cucumber