At the risk of sounding like a cover headline in Kitchen Garden magazine – and, if they’re looking for a new sub, I’ve got plenty left up my sleeve, honest: ‘Beet that!’ ‘Bean there done that!’ and my personal favourite, ‘Show me the way to Tomatillo!’ (in Kitchen Garden magazine the exclamation marks are compulsory) – and/or winning a competition for the dullest photo ever posted on the interweb, I thought I had to bring you my entire shallot harvest in all its glory.
I know.
If you look very closely you can see that one of the bulbs is normal sized.
Since making a meal out of them is clearly over-ambitious, I think I might try making a scary necklace out of them – like that man did in the 1970s Chinese TV show Monkey. His were skulls though so, in truth, quite a bit scarier.
They are small shallots – perhaps you could use them as bait to catch real shallots.