"Martin" wrote in message
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:34:55 +0100, "Mike Lyle"
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"Martin" wrote in message
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:39:23 +1000, "FarmI" ask@itshall be given
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"Dave Hill" wrote in message
This year whilst i was in Malta I bought a Veg in the marrow
family
which a friend thought was called the 100 year fruit? but I wont
swear
to this as the stall I bought it of knew no english name for it.
Pics at http://www.twango.com/channel/Taffy4u2.Unknown
I agree with Mike Lyle. It's a choko (or chayote as the Merkins
call
them).
If he is as old as I am, he and I would both no doubt have ghastly
similar
mamories of it from childhood. Chokoes steamed and served as a
veg,
chokoes
stewed with apples and served as a dessert etc ad
nauseum............
They grow like a weed in a warm climate and are capable of
enveloping
the
outhouse, the tool shed, the chook house, parked cars and
strangling
unwary
gardeners in their beds (and that is only one plant).
Recipe here
http://www.smart.com.mt/recipes/stuffedmarrows.shtml
You can't really do that with a choko: they're too small and
irregular.
And anyway, why should anybody in their right mind want to? Even
pumpkin's better. . . well, almost: at least a choko tastes of
nothing.
I guess the locals know how to cook a Maltese marrow.
Put me down as a hopeless grouch by all means, but if you ask me the
food in Malta doesn't warrant a mention in dispatches. Well, the lemons
are nice.
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Mike.
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