"Ride-a-cock-NonTrombo"

Strombo soup

I roasted some big girthy strombos over the weekend. They completely filled my oven, but resulted in 8 cups of green slimy strombo goodness.

After roasting them, the seeds separated out nicely, and I used a spoon to scoop out the flesh.  With some onion, garlic, curry paste, spices and coconut milk, it made some DELICIOUS soup.

First Shlong picked at Graham

It's been a shlong time coming...

Here is Wolfy proudly displaying the first shlong picked - as seen in the photos it's 2 feet long with a nice little twist in it! It weights in at a whopping 451g!


My plan is to put it through a mandolin and make it into noodles!
Here's a small sample - polenta with trombo noodles and homemade tomato sauce:

I also tried making trombo chips... charcoaled them - did not taste so good.

Crescent Beach Tromboncino update

We measured a couple of our long ones with the beast topping out at 52".

44.5" long ... and has now been picked

52" and growing ...

Trombochips

We tried deep frying tromboncino slices to make trombochips ... but even with some smokey paprika and salt they tasted awful ... apparently deep frying does not always taste good.

Trombochips

Next up we try them in the oven as per Corie and J.

Fall Fair 2014  -  The first picture is my "Collection of 5 distinct varieties of Vegetables".  It didn't win a prize because the competition was very stiff, but I was quite proud of it anyway, and the nice labels were commented on favourably!!! 

The second is my "Bounty of the Pender Islands" which came second so I didn't get my trophy for the third year in a row, which is probably a very good thing.  

The third is our harvest of peaches (don't laugh, Chris).  Nothing to do with the Fall Fair, but we are thrilled to bits because they are big and juicy and it's the first time we have ever had an edible crop worth mentioning.  Better things next year!

BTW the non-trombo-giant-maybe-pink-bana-squash is growing and growing and growing.  I bet it'll beat any of yours, Eddie!   However, no joy with trombos, regardless of name.

Graham update - hubbard, toms & peppers

It's been a shlong time since I last updated, but sadly not much shlongage to report. But the toms are in full force, and peppers are doing nicely (bear shown for scale, keep in mind he is a large bear, so tomatoes may appear smaller than they actually are).


And my two hubbards are looking great - one has reached the top of my apple tree! I'm keeping a close watch for vermins...

The Spring ...

We now have quite a few Tromboncinos that have been fertilized and are growing. We picked our second Tromboncino and dubbed "The Spring". Size reference included.