First harvest of the season
Recipe: How to Cook Artichokes Fast!
Cook artichokes fast. The idea of steaming these perennial flower buds for 45 minutes is not appealing to me. But when you use a pressure cooker, you cut the time to minutes.
SLOLA's collection is small, so we are all growing out seed to increase availability.
Growing Artichokes From Seed
Artichokes bring to mind the romantic rolling hills of Tuscany. In fact, during one of my trips to Italy, I photographed a box of baby purple artichokes (see below) at a Naples farmers market that captures the splendor and beauty of food in Italy. We have a Mediterranean climate here in Los Angeles, so artichokes grow as well here as they do in Italy. And while most people buy transplants at the nursery, growing artichokes from seed is not difficult.…
Jerusalem Artichokes
One of the benefits of participating in the Westside Produce Exchange is that,
while you never know what you're going to get, you can usually count on something new and unusual. This month's Exchange featured Jerusalem Artichokes.
The participants stood in a cluster, staring down at these knobby roots (tubers actually) wondering 1) what are they? and 2) what do we do with them? The answers that followed were as colorful
as the questions.
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