Easy Kohlrabi Pickles

So you may have conjectured that we have had to find a lot of different kohlrabi recipes to keep ourselves interested in the little buggers. This is one that is easy and delicious and snacky. If you can find a kohlrabi at your farmer’s market (or neighbor’s backyard–shhh), try it out!

Kohlrabi Pickles

1 or 2 kohlrabis*
pinch of salt
pinch of sugar
cider vinegar

Peel and cut the kohlrabis into bite-size chunks. Place in a jar or container with tight-fitting lid. Add salt and sugar and cover half-way with vinegar. Shake shake shake. Leave in refrigerator for about an hour, shaking once or twice in that time to redistribute vinegar. Drain vinegar off and enjoy!

These stay crunchy crunchy crunchy and are a cool and tasty snack on a hot afternoon. Or they would substitute nicely for chips or coleslaw with a burger.

*You could probably substitute jicama for the kohlrabi and have similarly delicious results.

That’s a Myth! Myth!

Bike commuters lie to you. They tell you that bicycling will save you moolah. This is a myth. And here is why.

All that money you save on gas by not driving doesn’t go into your wallet. It goes into your stomach. Once you start biking regularly, you will be starving! Like, an extra meal a day starving. Like, it’s 9:30 in the morning and I need second breakfast now and I know I’ll need a snack before dinner too starving. Think of yourself as becoming a hobbit.

Your hard-earned cash also goes into your washing machine. One set of riding clothes. One set of work clothes. One set of got-home-just-took-a-shower-don’t-want-to-put-back-on-work-clothes-that-I-wore-after-riding-and-then-no-shower clothes. That’s three outfits a day, folks. Which equals a whole other load of laundry a week.

I also assume that eventually I will be having to shell out big bucks for an entirely new wardrobe. Why? For all the pounds I miraculously drop with all this extra exercise, of course.

So, you see? Big time liars, bikers. Propagandists. Manipulators. And the real problem is, by the time you’ve figured out the truth, you’re hooked. You continue the commuting because it’s fun and peaceful and healthy and stress-relieving and mood-lifting and environmentally responsible and does anyone have a dollar I can borrow for the vending machine?

Weekend Harvest

We spent a lot of time in the garden on Sunday. Our tomatoes and blackberries were in some serious need of taming. And we harvested the end of our “spring” crops to make room eventually for “fall” crops of the same.

Here’s what we ended up taking inside for dinner.

Clockwise from top left: endamame beans; carrots; kohlrabi;
Roma and yellow pear tomoatoes; golden beets

The endamame beans in particular are the best thing ever. They are so buttery. And green-tasting. Sooooo much better than the ones in the bag (which were already one of my favorite foods). We should have planted nothing but these babies. Sooooo good.
But my favorite item that got pulled out of the dirt was this carrot.

The carrot octopus strikes again! Oh no!

Holy Kohlrabi!

It’s a good thing we like it. Cuz we have a boat-load of it! Towers and towers of kohlrabi. Stacked in corners of the house. Tumbling out of drawers. Under pillows and couches. You find kohlrabi when you open the bag of flour in the pantry. When you go to pour cereal. When you put something in the oven. The dog sleeps on a bed of kohlrabi. It’s like manna–our supply never dwindles, no matter how many we eat! It’s the attack of the purple kohlrabi!