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This really is a cucumber! I was telling the squash vendor at the Farmers' Market this morning about how something made me call the two-toned squash last week a cucumber. So he pulled this round thing out of a box (where it was waiting for somebody to pick it up -- all these round cucumbers were already sold) and showed it to me, saying that it was indeed a cucumber. I didn't have my real camera but took this picture with my phone.
Cucumber-like formation of nickelous hydroxide mushroomed from the spots where drops of concentrated sodium hydroxides mingled with an aqueous solution of nickelous sulfate.
From a chemist's vantage point:
NiSO4(aq) + 2 NaOH(aq) → Ni(OH)2(s)↓ + Na2SO4(aq)
Cucumber
Melon, yuzu, borage.
elements
Princeton, New Jersey
(September 6, 2013)
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A cucumber plant came up in our window box - we figure the seed was in the worm dirt we used to fill the planter. It's using the window screen as a convenient trellis.
Not often but once in a while I will see one of these Cucumber Beetles on the roses.. Maybe the rose taste like a veggie.. You think?
With all of the buzz going on about chia seeds, one might think that they are a creation of modern society. However, chia seeds have been cultivated and consumed since around 3000 B.C. in Pre-Columbian societies. Chia seeds were regarded so highly by Mayan and Aztec societies that they incorporated the seeds into their religious ceremonies. The seeds were even coined running food, because ancient warriors used the seeds as fuel for their long journeys.
www.foodthinkers.com/2010/04/beetlejuice/
INGREDIENTS
½ lime
½ grapefruit
1 small beet
½ cuke
a few mint leaves
for adding-in: 1 tablesoon chia seeds
INSTRUCTIONS
Juice all ingredients together except the chia seeds. Place chia seeds in a glass and pour juice in. Stir well. Enjoy immediately. Serves 1.
Image supplied by Angela Liddon, the editor of Oh She Glows and Green Monster Movement. She is also the owner of Glo, a vegan and organic bakery specializing in all natural Glo Bars.
Cucumber tendrils is modified leaves . Yes, those little stringy things are actually leaves. As you may have noticed, tendrils will wrap around anything that they touch.
Food Font is an art project where people can make alphabets out of food, take pictures of each letter, and later use these and other food alphabets to create images and other creative projects. The project supports dialogue and builds community around food, health, and sustainability.
The Food Font project allows you to download and use Food Font alphabets that you can use.
Goto: www.foodfont.com/download to view alphabets in other forms.