Weekly Photo Challenge: Green

We found this at the Pike’s Street Market in Seattle, which is marvelous, by the way. I had never seen one, so I wondered if some of you green connoisseurs might recognize this interesting vegetable. Here’s the recipe, but somehow I missed the name in the excitement of filling the screen with little Christmas Tree vegetables.…

Marsha

November 20, 2012

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Christmas Tree, Horticulture, Pike’s Street Market, Seattle, Travel, Vegetable

Green 1 — Spiky green vegetable. Can you guess what it is?

Here’s the recipe, but somehow I missed the name in the excitement of filling the screen with little Christmas Tree vegetables.

So guess away.

P.S. I’m not the only one who likes to photograph these exotic veggies. Click on the link and you will learn what they are!

Ute Smile also posted an article about this amazing vegetable.

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36 responses to “Weekly Photo Challenge: Green”

smilingtoad

November 27, 2012 at 6:11 pm

P.S. Was out driving in the “sticks” where Sir had randomly picked a “small town” off the map, called Holopaw (which was as scary as it sounds). Sir and I are brave souls. Well, there was this old house that looked abandoned with a giant white gnome out front….no, wait, ears too long…old Easter rabbit decoration? Wait…did those ears move? Turn around! A REAL rabbit?? Aye, a massive white rabbit, munching away on the grass in the moonlight. Most eerie scene. I debated hopping out and attempting to catch this rabbit, but local authorities might have been bugled for, or perhaps the local Holopawians would just have gone gamboling right into their rifle cabinets to fix the problem of strange girl galloping after giant snowy-white rabbits in yards. They are extremely fond of driving ATVs in ditches out there, too, they may have given chase in one of those terrifying, amphibious, bombilating things- sounds just like a rogue chainsaw chasing after you, terrible…Well, I imagine great white rabbit would have LOVED some broc, romanesca, quite avidly, and would have froliced right into the car, had I had some at the time…blast.

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1. tchistorygal
  
  November 27, 2012 at 10:30 pm
  
  Now THAT is a story to be told! Did you take pictures??? I used to have a rabbit, too. It ran away one day and launched itself into the neighbor’s new pool that was just dug and covered in rebar. I had to jump down into the pool and grab the runnaway bunny, who didn’t want to be grabbed, and wanted to jump away from me. Unfortunately I didn’t have enough arm and leg strength to get out of the muddy pit that would become a pool. So the neighbor, as strapping big fellow had to pull me and Bunny out. I wasn’t heavy, but the fact that he was PULLING my 125 pounds up, up, up and out of the pool without the help of steps almost made him loose his balance and jump into the pool as well. Fortunately Bunny and I made it out of the pool after several miss tries. The very next day Bunny got out of his cage AGAIN. that time I let him go. I saw him from time to time around the neighborhood. He probably lived off scrounged dog and cat food plus a ton of greens. I wasn’t a rabbit whisperer. 🙂
  
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  1. smilingtoad
    
    November 27, 2012 at 10:36 pm
    
    Yes, I got photos. One is especially eerie I am looking forward to posting. Haha, rabbits are too fun. They do get VERY lonely if they don’t have a pal or two, my first rabbit was very clear on this. Suddenly, another stray rabbit appear for her and she’s been content ever since. They both chirp, purr, walk on leash, come when called, chase cats, and gambol free with me in the yard. This past thanksgiving I had the four cats outside and two rabbits in the yard. Two cats, the males, had to be on a long leash, still in training- not allowed to run the neighborhood. Rabbits know this and are very good with staying in the yard. A lady cried out with her two little dogs, “QUITE a menagerie!”
    
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    1. tchistorygal
      
      November 27, 2012 at 10:48 pm
      
      Maybe that was our problem, we only had 1 rabbit and 3 guinea pigs, and they all lived together in the back yard. Maybe he was lonely. 🙂
      
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      1. smilingtoad
        
        November 27, 2012 at 10:51 pm
        
        Probably longed for a rabbit friend, indeed, har har. They really do long for rabbit company. When we first got the lassie rabbit, her name is Gandhi Poe Lass, she was a bit terrifying. I whispered her, and she was lovely but very depressed and unhappy. Then Bunion Claude came along, and life has been an endless song ever since.
        
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      2. tchistorygal
        
        November 28, 2012 at 6:07 am
        
        Love makes the world go ’round – even for rabbits! 🙂
        
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  2. smilingtoad
    
    November 27, 2012 at 10:38 pm
    
    P.S. when I first got our rabbit, she launched herself into a swimming pool that happened to be full of water and proceeded to swim. Now that was quite a sight. P.S. WHAT an ordeal to go through for you and rabbit…how many people might go through such a thing?!!
    
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    1. tchistorygal
      
      November 27, 2012 at 10:52 pm
      
      Well our neighbor and I got a good laugh out of it. At least his pool didn’t have water in it yet!!!. Did you jump in after the critter? What are you doing up, anyway??? Don’t you know it’s late back there?
      
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      1. smilingtoad
        
        November 27, 2012 at 10:57 pm
        
        Yes, it’s atrociously late indeed. Oh dear. I have been multi-tasking myself into the minute hours, oh blast, yes. I often get up but two hours from now. Well, ‘appens sometimes. Oh she got out just fine on her own, otherwise, aye I would have gone dunking in after her. Rabbits seem to be marvelous swimmers. I think she was spooked by something, shadow of a bird above perhaps.
        
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      2. tchistorygal
        
        November 28, 2012 at 6:09 am
        
        I couldn’t hold out any more! Kalev has problems with shadows, too. So funny to watch!
        
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smilingtoad

November 27, 2012 at 6:00 pm

Fabulous find! I must seek this romanesca, broc. out very soon. I imagine the rabbits would faint as soon as they beheld it. Did I mention I live with two rabbits that gobble all the greens in the house and yard? Absolutely beautiful, and what colour! Wooo LOVE it!

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1. tchistorygal
  
  November 27, 2012 at 10:22 pm
  
  I know. I loved it, too. I used to have guinea pigs, and they gobbled all the greens in our house, and taught the dogs to fight them over the lettuce we brought out! I wrote a short story about it. It was the funniest thing to see dogs eating lettuce just because they didn’t want the guinea pigs to get it!
  
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  1. smilingtoad
    
    November 27, 2012 at 10:26 pm
    
    I would LOVE to read that story lassie!!
    
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    1. tchistorygal
      
      November 27, 2012 at 10:47 pm
      
      I’ll send it to you and you can advise me about what to do with it. 🙂
      
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      1. smilingtoad
        
        November 27, 2012 at 10:49 pm
        
        I will deeply enjoy it, I know. You can send it to ajadefaulkner@yahoo.com at your corn-venience. Thanks so much, looking forward to it, most avidly
        
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      2. tchistorygal
        
        November 27, 2012 at 11:06 pm
        
        Will do tomorrow. Tonight…..zzzz 🙂
        
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utesmile

November 25, 2012 at 10:59 am

Thanks you put my post on here! Hug!

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Tammy

November 22, 2012 at 5:01 am

Broccoli Romanesca -that is what my neighbor calls it.. She raised a beautiful specimen and brought it to enter in our harvest party we have in the fall. It is a show-stopper for sure!
Beautiful pictures -love the “shoe museum” post and the recent Sierra Nevadas dusted with snow.

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1. tchistorygal
  
  November 22, 2012 at 6:22 pm
  
  Gold Star Tammy! You are right! Have you tried it?
  
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  1. Tammy
    
    November 23, 2012 at 10:16 am
    
    Yes and it is delicious – more buttery tasting than cauliflower or broccoli.
    
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Leanne Cole

November 22, 2012 at 12:29 am

They are certainly green Marsha, I have no idea what they are, but I have been seeing them around a lot lately.

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1. tchistorygal
  
  November 22, 2012 at 1:31 am
  
  They were new to me. I’ve probably seen them, and not paid attention, but these just cried out to be noticed.
  
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rommel

November 21, 2012 at 3:52 pm

Chicken Pox Cactus?

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1. tchistorygal
  
  November 21, 2012 at 6:33 pm
  
  Good try!!! The kind you are used to seeing is white.
  
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Amazing Food « Ute smile

November 21, 2012 at 9:29 am

[…] Marsha’s blog […]

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utesmile

November 21, 2012 at 9:25 am

Funny I just had one and also took a photo for a blog. I think it is a work of art from nature. I shll post it and link yours, your pictures are much better than mine. 🙂

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1. tchistorygal
  
  November 21, 2012 at 3:22 pm
  
  I doubt that! I just used my iPhone! But they were too amazing to resist. Hope you have a great Thanksgiving, Ute 🙂
  
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  1. utesmile
    
    November 21, 2012 at 11:18 pm
    
    Thanks Marsha, I am in the UK and we don’t do Thanksgiving here but I give thanks still without it! 🙂
    
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    1. tchistorygal
      
      November 22, 2012 at 1:33 am
      
      That makes sense, if I’d stopped to consider our history and your geography before I set my fingers in motion. First rule of blogging – think before you type!!! It never hurts to be thankful!!!
      
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Rexlin Victor

November 21, 2012 at 4:11 am

I think it’s Romanesco Cauliflower!! Beautiful shots!!

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1. tchistorygal
  
  November 21, 2012 at 4:52 am
  
  Gold Star!!!
  
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  1. Rexlin Victor
    
    November 21, 2012 at 4:55 am
    
    Thank you!!
    
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Carmen Friesen

November 20, 2012 at 6:50 pm

It’s very pretty. I’m guessing it’s some kind of broccoli. What’s it taste like?

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1. tchistorygal
  
  November 20, 2012 at 8:49 pm
  
  We didn’t try it. Cheryl had to go catch a plane, so we were just spending a little time together before she left. But you are very close, and that would have been my guess as well.
  
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adinparadise

November 20, 2012 at 5:54 pm

Love these. They look like little Christmas trees. 🙂

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1. tchistorygal
  
  November 20, 2012 at 8:54 pm
  
  Yes they are adorable, I think. I didn’t taste one, though.
  
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Hi, I’m Marsha Ingrao, a retired educator and wife of a retired realtor. My all-consuming hobby is blogging and it has changed my life. My friends live all over the world. In November 2020, we sold everything and retired to the mile-high desert of Prescott, AZ. We live less than five miles from the Granite Dells, four lakes, and hundreds of trails with our dog, Kalev, and two cats, Moji and Nutter Butter. Vince’s sister came with us and lives close by. Every day is a new adventure.

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