EEKs!

Last night, I looked in the fridge and found.... almost nothing.  There was a little leftover pizza for the kids, some apple sauce, and a few suspicious-looking green beans in a take-out container.    You know you're scraping the bottom of the barrel when you're serving your kids leftovers of the leftover meals from earlier in the week.

Then, lo and behold, I found something odd.  What was this?  It looked like an overgrown bunch of green onions..... or celery gone horribly wrong.  What could it be?  I probably ought to know what vegetables were lurking in my crisper, but this one was a mystery.

I was too embarrassed to call my trusty blog buddies and attempt to describe the veggie over the phone.  After all, I had almost certainly bought the thing myself.... by mistake.  I tried to call my mother-in-law, my go-to source for my routine stupid-kitchen questions... but she was out.  I was stumped.

After an embarrassing amount of Googling, I found a picture that looked like my mystery vegetable.  I was so excited that I yelped its name aloud:  LEEKS!

Owen came running in and yelled "Eek! Eek! is it a bug, mommy?"

So, Owen and I made braised "eeks."   And they were GREAT, and really easy.

I'm not sure how kosher it is to post a link to another food blog, but here's the Smitten Kitchen recipe.

I didn't make the Devil Chicken - just the leeks.  I served them with a light salad and small goat cheese and red pepper quesadillas.  It looked great and impressed my husband... and Owen kept saying "Eeks are my favowits," which alone made it worthwhile.