The Size of Vegetables

These are the ones I shall be using because these are the only ones I got.

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200mm (8") dia dish.
 
These are what I would call "very small". They are likely to be heading for cauliflower cheese tomorrow.

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I halved the largest, left the other four whole:

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sidevalve said:
must admit I find this thread interesting - especially about potatoes. I can still remember [and so I suspect do a few of the more 'mature' members !] the days when a potato could be almost the size of a small melon and covered in wrinkles lumps and annoying crevices that took AGES to peel. 1 of these beasts could supply enough chips [or even french fries] or mash for an entire meal !
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I remember them well, does that make me a 'mature' member :unsure:
 
Lullabelle said:
I remember them well, does that make me a 'mature' member :unsure:
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Perhaps only add mature add the potato because I also remember them. We used to buy large papery sacks of them, 25 or 50kg at a time I think (roughly converted to metric) from farmer's yards or gates. Easy to do so still in Cheshire but else where? I still hunt out the soil converted tatties,even here in Australia. Mine are nearly really for harvesting! Can't wait to see if I have a semi reasonable crop.
 
We were building a pipeline around Broadway in the Cotswolds in the middle of the '78/'79 winter (anyone from England will remember that winter). Anyway, it was Christmas Eve and a local farmer brought around a few small sacks of potatoes which he had spare from the fields where we had stripped the topsoil. I took a sack home and within a week or two I had a plethora of potato plants growing in the garage.
 
Yorky said:
The bowl is 150 mm diameter. "Thai hot" chilies (as opposed to prik kee noo).

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[Edit: The chilies shown above were Bht 10.00 (US$ 0.30). I remember paying 70p for 6 Thai chilies in Harrods 30 years ago]
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I'm a bit jealous of your chillies.... they can be more than $20kg here... I get them cheaper in Asian markets but still $$$
 
Frizz1974 said:
I'm a bit jealous of your chillies.... they can be more than $20kg here... I get them cheaper in Asian markets but still $$$
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That's steep - I can buy them in my local Asian shop for peanuts. I've also heard (many times) that chillies in Australia are just not very hot.
 
morning glory said:
That's steep - I can buy them in my local Asian shop for peanuts. I've also heard (many times) that chillies in Australia are just not very hot.
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Chilli head culture is starting to come along now. Though you have to grow your own if you want hotter varieties.

The part of Sydney I grew up in, my neighbours were all immigrants and they grew a lot of veg, including chilies. As a kid I loved being invited in to eat the food of my neighbours from Lebanon, Macedonia, Turkey, Italy.

Though funnily, the first chilli plant (Birdseye) I can remember seeing was grown by a long retired Anglo. Her garden was amazing. Full of citrus trees with 4 big raised beds that were always full of veg, every season.

One middle eastern neighbour used to grow a border garden of parsley, marigold & scotch bonnets. I used to dare the teen boys to eat them.
 
Frizz1974 said:
Chilli head culture is starting to come along now. Though you have to grow your own if you want hotter varieties.

The part of Sydney I grew up in, my neighbours were all immigrants and they grew a lot of veg, including chilies. As a kid I loved being invited in to eat the food of my neighbours from Lebanon, Macedonia, Turkey, Italy.

Though funnily, the first chilli plant (Birdseye) I can remember seeing was grown by a long retired Anglo. Her garden was amazing. Full of citrus trees with 4 big raised beds that were always full of veg, every season.

One middle eastern neighbour used to grow a border garden of parsley, marigold & scotch bonnets. I used to dare the teen boys to eat them.
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@SatNavSaysStraightOn may be interested in this as I think she has found it difficult to find seed for hot chilli cultivation in Australia (I may have this wrong).
 
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