This is Agent Not-so-lil'Woop. Our all time favorite veggie is chicory!
Here we will tell you more about this vegetable, because we understand many piggies outside the Netherlands have never had this! What a shame, we loooooooooove it.
Some slaves eat it, it's pretty bitter, but it's supposed to be nice with ham and cheese out of the oven.. Yeah right!
According to Guinealynx this is the nutritous value of Chicory per 100 grammes:
Guinea Lynx'
VEGETABLE CHART Endive, Belgian
100 gram portions (Witloof Chicory)
PercentWater 94.52
Energy(Kcal) 17
Protein(g) 0.9
Ascorbic Acid (C) 2.8
Calcium(mg) 19
Phosph.(mg) 26
Ca:P Ratio 0.7:1
How do we eat Chicory?
First all gather around the edge of the cage where the veggies are distributed.
Then after you get a piece there are several options:
You either just eat it in the corner where you got it, this is for confident piggies like me!
Or you hide in the house, and this is important(!), put your butt in the door opening so others cannot get in to take your chicory.
And be sure to stretch for those veggies, like Daisy is showing us here
Do feel free to play a little tug-of-war, and steal your cagemates piece!
And don't forget to have a sip of water after if thirsty, see Chico's demonstration.
And as an extra, for you confident piggies: Eat the chicory out of your slaves hand!
I am the only one who dares to do this at Guinygirlz Mansion.
Please let us know if you ever get Chicory and show us how you eat it!
Om nom nom nom nom
ReplyDeleteAi have instructed mai Aunty Loosy to buy me some chicory to try, ai have also instructed her to buy me a ticket on the ferry to Holland so I can visit you all but she said ai don't have a passport! How wude!
Chicory is often on the menu chez Piggyfriends. Slave doesn't like it herself but buys it for us at the supermarket.
ReplyDeleteShe wanted to take some pigtures of us enjoying it but her camera needs new batteries so that will have to wait for another day.
When Moonlight arrived here with the three other little girls from the RSPCA, she was so traumatised that she would not eat. Slave had to syringe feed her and tempt her into eating real food. Chicory was the first veggie that she would try and it remains her favourite.
When our Rodentologists have a day trip to France, they always bring back huge chicons for their herd and patients and, if we are lucky, we get some too. Here we have to make do with little chicons but never mind - they all taste good.
We are hoping Mummy will buy us some Chicory at the weekend now she knows what it looks like.
ReplyDeleteWe have never had it
@Dido, you are very welcome to visit! You can try out our new run with us... if the weather is good..
ReplyDelete@piggyfriends, Slave has been mailing with you slave and now she wonders if she can grow chicory herself.. We guess you don't have any experience with that?
We are looking forward to pigtures of you enjoying Chicory!
@Ghost You will love it, at least we know of no piggy who doesn't like it! If you do get it, send me a pigture of you enjoying it! Love, Not-so-lil'Woop
We have learned something today. We didn't know that a "lump" of chicory was called a chicon. Thank you, Piggyfriends! We love chicory. Our slave cuts a chicon in half and then we tuck in!
ReplyDeleteTo Lily'explorer and co.
ReplyDeleteYou can grow your own chicory. Slave has a pot of it in her garden but to make the little chicons, it has to be blanched. You have to cut the plant down in November, cover it with a bucket to keep out the light and put the pot somewhere frost free like a garage. In a few weeks the little chicons will have grown. You harvest them by cutting them off, replace the bucket and more will grow. You can keep doing this until spring.
Slave says that some things are just too much hard work and she buys chicons for us, which means that we can eat them all year round. We can have the green leaves from the garden plant but the chicons taste better.