I'm no chef; I'm not even a master foodie. And when it comes to trying to find recipes, I usually get bored reading the 6-8 paragraph lead in about something other than the recipe that I find everywhere on the Web. Also, I can't stand having to add 1 oz of this, 2 ozs of that, 1/2 oz of that other thing, and then some type of dressing or oil to coat the ingedients. Maybe I'm just lazy, but I get impatient with that.
So today as I was at the local farmer's market with my family, I decided I was going to make a snack item for me for the rest of the week on a whim. I therefore dropped $10 USD on the vegetables below, used a few items at home, and made the following. Here it goes (and no, I'm not going to relate this to some Batman comic, some Nag Hammadi story, or even a 21 Litecoin story - no one wants to read that anyway)
A Raw Vegetable Snack
This is ultimately what I did this Saturday. I bought:
Two Kohlrabi
Carrots
Snap Peas
Preparation
I first peeled the Kohlrabi as such :
And then cut the Kohlrabi into pieces :
I then threw them into a metal strainer. I then peeled the carrots :
And then cut them into halves as such:
Again threw them into the metal strainer; finally, I pulled the stems off of the peas, and threw them into the metal strainer and proceeded to rinse everything off with cold water :
At the same time as preparing the vegetables, I was keeping all the waste in a metal bowl to throw in our compost bin:
I also threw our coffee grounds in to give the waste some extra love :
Finally, I threw the rinsed off vegetables in bowl, added the following salt and avocado oil (I used three tablespoons of oil), and mixed it up :
And here it is !
Whoa, that's a lot of vegetables. I'm going to add salt to taste going forward, but this should be a fairly nutrient rich snack for the rest of the week.
Do you like kohlabri? Do you have any favorite recipes you'd share with that vegetable? I'm always happy to learn. I think I'm going to try to ferment out some kohlrabi next weekend, at the very least. It is the season here in Midwest. Thanks for reading, as always, and feel free to leave some feedback.