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'Embracing the Wonky Chayote' Gratin for #foodrevolutionday

One of  February challenges  for the  Jamie Oliver Food Revolution  Ambassadors ( I'm the Monterey #FRD2014 rep! ) is to... Embrace Wonky Veg! Hmmm...okay. What do you think they mean by "wonky"??? won•ky ˈwäNGkē, (adj) informal 1. crooked; off-center; askew. 2. (of a thing) unsteady; shaky. 3. not functioning correctly; faulty. So, I'm going with the first definition, not the second or third. The whole point is that they are not faulty, right? So, we're embracing the crooked vegetables...the fruits and vegetables that aren't picture perfect. Easy enough. Here's an excerpt from a post I wrote in 2013 about choosing ugly tomatoes ( I Choose Ugly! ). Same idea.  " Ugly tomatoes are not the perfectly round, perfectly red specimens that you can find in almost every grocery store. They are not smooth; they often have fluting and they might have cracks. So long as the flutes and cracks haven't allowed rotting, they...