Recently, my wife gave me a vegetable on a Friday evening and called it a gift. I smiled partly because I had never received a vegetable as a gift before, but mostly because I was considering a vegetable skin recipe from India. Ridge gourd (Luffa acutangula) or peerkangai as it is called in tamil, is a popular vegetable in Tamil Nadu, India. I was thinking about it because a friend who is working on a project to reduce food waste asked me to suggest an Indian recipe that would suit her goal.
