Baby artichokes
Sep. 30th, 2002 11:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidA misnomer, apparently, since every artichoke plant puts out one big artichoke and a bunch of smaller ones that never do grow bigger.
Friday I couldn't resist buying some at the supermarket, and they're great. They're much smaller, so more approachable as a vegetable (rather than a course unto itself), or a snack. There are fewer outer leaves, and the inner leaves are wholly edible, except perhaps the very tips. And the choke hasn't developed, so there's not the nuisance of scraping it out, and the mouthful of artichoke heart goodness is there, a tingling on the tongue and a bit of sweet aftertaste.
I don't know how many were in the 2-pound package, but I just finished the last of them now (Hrafn had a couple, but I think I ate the rest, except for one I shared). Yum.
Friday I couldn't resist buying some at the supermarket, and they're great. They're much smaller, so more approachable as a vegetable (rather than a course unto itself), or a snack. There are fewer outer leaves, and the inner leaves are wholly edible, except perhaps the very tips. And the choke hasn't developed, so there's not the nuisance of scraping it out, and the mouthful of artichoke heart goodness is there, a tingling on the tongue and a bit of sweet aftertaste.
I don't know how many were in the 2-pound package, but I just finished the last of them now (Hrafn had a couple, but I think I ate the rest, except for one I shared). Yum.