Farmers Market in Late Fall -- Sunchokes!

[xraytheenforcer]

Shopped for our contributions to Thanksgiving dinner at the Farmers Market:

Kabocha (aka Delica) squash and Ambercup squash soup (will be dressed with yogurt and smoked-paprika oil)
Gold Ball Turnips and Scarlet Turnips (buttered and mashed)
Brussel Sprouts (steamed)
(I'll also be making the cranberry sauce, but I have to find cranberries elsewhere).

Also bought bacon from Flying Pig Farms. I scored some homemade dill pickles from the Crazy Mustache Guy's stand. Gods, I love pickles.

I also broke down and bought sunchokes, a root vegetable I've eaten before, but never cooked. Figured I might as well try something new.

Comments

[niamhotoole.livejournal.com]

I'm sure of it now. You have to be french.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

my parents will be surprised. heh.

[kama-police.livejournal.com]

eeek brussel sprouts

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

to plague you.

[catrionamacnair.livejournal.com]

Sunchokes look fascinating. Never heard of them before. Yay for educational food pr0n :)

Dill pickles are awesome. And Flying Pig Farm is hilarious.

Also, yay for brussel sprouts. Everybody plus my brother seems to hate them, but I really like them. My mum used to do them in a pot with a bit of oil so they would be mostly steamed but a bit of stir-fried as well, which added a lovely crisp taste to them. I never understood that I didn't have to fight my brother for getting a second helping.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

yay!! another one of the Enlightened!!

you would love sunchokes, although I am unsure of their availability in DE. Instead, you should find some Teltower Ruebchen and enjoy them:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teltower_R%C3%BCbchen

[rudbekia.livejournal.com]

What a great haul!

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

It was. I will post the recipe I used on the sunchokes tomorrow. Very tasty.

[d-arte.livejournal.com]

ahem. recipe post?

[d-arte.livejournal.com]

Happy Thanksgiving, btw!

Brussel Sprouts

[bazzlebane.livejournal.com]

Hated them my entire life. Until a year ago (Thanksgiving). Ate one. Ate a couple more. Ate a large helping. Not quite sure why I hated them for so long...though I admit the fact that that batch was cooked with bacon helped.

Re: Brussel Sprouts

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

Bacon. What can't it do?


(shit, I think I need a bacon icon).
Also: OMG hello!