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[marlo]

I don't understand why people are so obsessed with saying "WHAT IS AIR??" right now when they find something funny.

I like getting into new phases with new and/or seasonal vegetables. Recently:

- brussels sprouts
- fresh artichokes
- butternut squash

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[happymachines]

I had never heard of that before, but I also don't really read Tumblrs besides yours.

[maeths]

if you really like brussel sprouts, there is a little market at Westminster highway and #8 road that is getting them in now off of their own farm. Cash only.

[eyebrowofdoom]

What are you doing with the artichokes? I have this fascination with them. My mum's 70s cookbooks would show them with breadcrumb stuffing shoved in the gaps between the leaves.

I only tried cooking them once. I followed some dodgy advice that said I could tear off the inner leaves and put them whole on a pizza - which, no you can't; you have to pick them off the pizza again in order to bite off the edible part and chuck the rest, so that was stupid.

[marlo]

You drop them into boiling water and boil them. For baby artichokes (which we had) it was about 15-20 minutes; for larger artichokes I think it's more like 30 minutes. Then you take away just a few of the outer "leaves" that don't look good to eat, and after that you can start picking off the leaves, dipping them in melted butter, and eating the flesh off the bottom of the leaves. The further in you get, the more of the leaf becomes flesh until you can eat the entire leaf. When you get to the middle, you can eat the entire base (but not the stem -- you can only eat about a centimetre of the top of the stem).

Oh man, I'm gonna have to go buy more today. That made me crave them!

http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/how_to_cook_and_eat_an_artichoke/

In their instructions, they chop off the top of the artichoke, but I don't bother. I just don't eat the top part of the leaf.