Mystery Vegetables

I decided that keeping our vegetables in a cooler all growing season just won't work; some reorganizing is in order. We have a mini fridge in a closet off our dining room for beer, and I realized this had to be the spot for the overflow. I told my husband that fridge could no longer be reserved only for beer, that our vegetables would have to go in there, too. I adjusted the shelves, cleaned the goo off the surfaces that had leaked from who knows what condiment or sauce, and threw away some old, suspicious looking things that were lurking in the vegetable drawer. Then I transferred the produce from the cooler into the beer fridge. Now the trick is going to be to not forget about what's tucked away in there, out of sight from the daily opening of the main fridge in the kitchen.

There is a mystery vegetable this week. It's a turnip-looking light green bulb on the bottom, sort of round, with multiple green stalks growing out of it with large leaves. I 've never seen such a thing. I consulted with the chart provided by the farm and decided it must be Kohlrabi. I looked it up on the internet, realizing I could trim the stalks so it could be more compactly stored, and put it in the beer fridge. More on that later.

Another mystery is with what I thought was the cilantro. I gave some to Carolyn, and she told me it was parsley. I looked both of them up on the internet and they look distinctly different. But she said that Italian parsley has flatter leaves than regular parsley, and she thinks that's what it is, since the flavor doesn't have any kick. She made Tabouli with it, which turned out wonderfully. We decided that it didn't matter for the Tabouli, cilantro or parsley, it was delicious.