Jerusalem artichoke

>>8298040
They taste fantastic as a substitute for mashed potatoes. You basically make them the same way, peel, cook in salted water until tender, and puree in a food processor or whip with an electric mixer adding plenty of butter, a little cream, and salt and pepper. Goes great with seafood, fish, or poultry.
They also make a delicious soup.

>>8298049
Thanks, can I mash them like potatoes? Or is the blender really required?

>>8298050
Sure, you can just use a potato masher, it just won't produce as smooth of an end product. Sunchokes are more fiberous than potatoes, which is why people like to use an electric mixer or food processor, but it's not necessary.

if you have a garden bury a couple of them and you'll have them for free. They grow really easy

>>8298101
So true. They're basically a weed.

I just fry them desu.

>>8298040
They cook like potatoes. Get ready for the fart storm of a lifetime, bucko.

>>8298040
You can also chop em up and fryu em into something like an onion ring

>jerusalem

triggered

>>8298040
You mean topinambours?
Why would you call them that retarded name?

>>8299449
Saracen detected

>>8298040
either soup or cut them in half, put some harissa on them and put them in the oven, add a bit of lime when you take them out.

>>8298040
Get ready for the worst gas in your life. "... which way soever they be dressed and eaten, they stir and cause a filthy loathsome stinking wind within the body, thereby causing the belly to be pained and tormented, and are a meat more fit for swine than men."

>>8298040
That's ginger you fucking goy.

>>8299668
Once in my life I have been in true agony, and it was after eating 'jew 'chokes' au gratin.

(((artichokes)))

No thanks.

>>8298103
So the name of them fits perfectly.

>>8299707
IIRC, the first European to happen upon them was a Frenchman who spoke Nicard natively. He referred to them as "girasole artichokes." 'Girasole' means "sunflower" in Nicard and other languages and dialects of southern France as well as in Italian and Corsican (it's 'tournesole' in standard French). The plant has sunflower-like blooms and tastes faintly of artichoke, hence the name.

English settlers encountering the Nicard-speaking people eating them misheard "girasole" as "Jerusalem." It's similar to the tombstone for the guy who trained the camels for the failed American military experiment, the US Camel Corps. His name was Hadj Ali. His tombstone in the southwestern US, however, is engraved with "Hi Jolly" because English-speakers misheard his name.

Basically, jerusalem artichokes have about as much to do with Jews as a Syrian camelherd has to do with happy greetings.

>>8299750
That's convenient (((chef)))

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>>8299750
I wonder (((who))) could be behind this fascinating post?

>>8298040
Just grate them raw and add them to salads instead of a being a faggot who has to cook everything. They're high in prebiotic fiber and very good for digestion before meals. Raw or cooked just eat the fuckers or send them to me you're probably fucking wasting them already.

>>8301412
>wasting them already.

This. My neighbors kill their dandelions and lambs quarter with poison, for christs sake.

Fwiw, we've sarted growing Jerusalem Artichoke in our garden.