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Sunchokes
October 20, 2008 ( Food )
So, you might remember that I planted sunchokes (Jerusalem Artichokes / girasoles) this year. I planted them in the time-honored tuber (...or starfish) method of chopping one up and planting the pieces. I chopped one decent-sized sunchoke up into six marble-sized chunks and they turned into plants.
Big plants. 
Two weekends back I was by the NutHouse to pick up my half of our shared beer-bottle collection, and harvested one and a half of the plants, which are now taller than I am. I am now the proud owner of a few pounds of sunchoke. Also, realizing the amount of lost sunchokes still hiding in the garden soil, plus untold yards of good root, I am confident that while every other positive change I might have tried to enact on the NutHouse may go away and fade, no one will ever - ever rid the yard of sunchokes.
I've been seeking out recipes that use lots of sunchoke. Soup was my first stop.
Sunchoke Bisque turned out pretty well - it, er, tasted like sunchoke. 
Next recipe to try - pickled sunchokes!
Posted by griffjon at October 20, 2008 09:12 AM
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