We get a bag-o-veggies each week from the local farmers’ market. They put whatever they want into it. This week there were these very small. . .somethings. Any ideas?
Goodness Idk looks like a potato radish baby rutabaga? I need answer fast
They look like potatoes. What are they like on the inside?
It looks like there’s a dead blossom on one end of each globe; if so, they’re not a root vegetable. I’m going to guess something in the zucchini family, or maybe quince.
I’m guessing lemon cucumbers.
Here’s a better picture that looks more like yours:
That looks like them, alright. Riddle solved.
That link says they are sweet and crunchy eaten raw; so please let us know how they taste, if they are delicious, etc. And where we can get some if they are tasty.
Lemon cucumbers are delicious! My favorite kind of cucumber. They have a pretty short season and don’t transport well.
You almost always have to peel them. They have tough skins and (sometimes) little hairs that are kind of spiky.
But they have the best slightly-citrus on-the-sweet-side cucumber taste and are quite crisp.
I’ve grown them in my garden, and they are all of that. The “lemon” in the name is for the color, not the taste. They taste like a baby cucumber, none of the bitterness you sometimes get with older cukes. I’d eat them straight, drizzled with a little rice vinegar, or in a salad. In my garden at least, they were better producers than other varieties.
If you pick them when the skin is darker yellow, then I agree with iamthewalrus that they are better peeled. But picked earlier with pale yellow skin, I just ate them whole. That could be more reflective of my laziness than my good taste.
I probably imagined the slight citrus from the name. And I’ve never grown them, only gotten them at farmers markets and (very rarely) in grocery stores.
Now I am wondering if anywhere around here grows them…