Travelling On

gallygirl

Fields of globe artichokes round here at the moment. Very attractive . Must admit, I jut them in a jar and char grill them . I like Jerusalem ones as well .

Karmacat

That sounds a good way of eating them, Gally

maddiemay

Karmacat you are doing really well on the inside stuff, I am doing a lot more cooking and baking which I love, but not very much tidying/sorting/cleaning which I do not love:eek:

Friday was so warm and sunny here so I allotted half an hour for some garden tidying, but ended up doing nearer 2 hours, I absolutely loved it and told OH later that for a little while I really felt like the old me (I know that you will "get this":D The great thing is that I haven't had to pay for it with a crash - helped by being indoors for 2 snowy days no doubt.

beanielou

maddiemay wrote: »

Karmacat you are doing really well on the inside stuff, I am doing a lot more cooking and baking which I love, but not very much tidying/sorting/cleaning which I do not love:eek:

Friday was so warm and sunny here so I allotted half an hour for some garden tidying, but ended up doing nearer 2 hours, I absolutely loved it and told OH later that for a little while I really felt like the old me (I know that you will "get this":D The great thing is that I haven't had to pay for it with a crash - helped by being indoors for 2 snowy days no doubt.

:j:j:j :j

rtandon27

:snow_laug

Brrrr - how is it where are KC? did your snow finish melting?

Roads here are impassible - started to melt yesterday and has now frozen into a sheet of ice! So though trains are running, we can't get to them!!!

Another work from home day!

:snow_grin

(Artichokes from a jar on a pizza are delicious! - not sure I'd know what to do presented with a fresh one?!?)

edinburgher

gallygirl wrote: »

Fields of globe artichokes round here at the moment. Very attractive . Must admit, I jut them in a jar and char grill them . I like Jerusalem ones as well .

Aww nuts - GG already used my one artichoke reference! They are lovely chargrilled and then stored with a covering of decent olive oil with a few sprigs of herbs etc. :drool:

Karmacat

maddiemay wrote: »

Karmacat you are doing really well on the inside stuff, I am doing a lot more cooking and baking which I love, but not very much tidying/sorting/cleaning which I do not love:eek:

Hi maddie! I'm doing pretty well on tidying and sorting - but I'm doing appallingly on cleaning as well as on cooking and baking. I love the results of cooking and baking, but not the actual process I wish I did! What kind of things do you like to cook?

Friday was so warm and sunny here so I allotted half an hour for some garden tidying, but ended up doing nearer 2 hours, I absolutely loved it and told OH later that for a little while I really felt like the old me (I know that you will "get this":D The great thing is that I haven't had to pay for it with a crash - helped by being indoors for 2 snowy days no doubt.

I completely get that, you're right. Sounds lovely, not to pay for all that extra time with a crash. And to be outside in the warm. Gorgeous.

rtandon27 wrote: »

:snow_laug

Brrrr - how is it where are KC? did your snow finish melting?

It's bitter, RT :snow_laug I really want a shivering snowman, since the "feels like" temperature is -5, but a laughing snowman will do :rotfl: There's bits of snow left on the ground here. I went to my sister's pretty early this morning (retired early, not workforce early) and the pavements were still really dodgy, she's in an elevated position compared to me (speaks volumes :rotfl:).

Roads here are impassible - started to melt yesterday and has now frozen into a sheet of ice! So though trains are running, we can't get to them!!!

Another work from home day!

:snow_grin

That's a result :j:j:j

(Artichokes from a jar on a pizza are delicious! - not sure I'd know what to do presented with a fresh one?!?)

This has become very interesting there was a fair amount of shame involved at the time, we were a working class family but my mum had gone back to work, and as a teacher she got a salary that was the same as my dad's wage, so they splashed out and took us to France for a week. To know how astonishing this is, when I told a friend at school, I was accused of lying - people like us didn't go abroad for holidays then. It's a different world.
/end historical note.

Okay - my mum broke off a whole globe artichoke leaf and chewed it. Not good. The manager eventually explained she should eat the little bit of white at the very tip of the bottom end of the leaf. About the size of a little fingernail. This was an old fashioned French hotel - you didn't get served "a meal", you got one item at a time, so the rest of us were sitting looking at my mum. It was very weird.

http://suttoncommunityfarm.org.uk/recipes/cook-eat-globe-artichoke/

rtandon27

Smiling broadly at your story of Mom & your holiday in France - what a lovely reminiscence!

Wow KC - that's a whole lot of work for a tiny bit of white stuff that you have to work at with your teeth to get out of the leaf! - I'm hoping it tastes like manna from heaven!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Am especially loving the description "one of the most charismatic vegetables around" :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I'm guessing what is in the jar sold as antipasto is the pickled heart of the globe artichoke?

redofromstart

Ha, fartichokes. A&C like to send them to unsuspecting victims in the veg box.

Never, ever eating Jerusalem ones again. Next time they came in the veg box I gave them all to greedy OH. He thought he was going to implode. We had them peeled, and roasted with olive oil. Lovely to eat but oh how they resent it.

We had/have globe artichokes in the garden, think they were on gardeners world a few years back and went v fashionable. My parents kindly split out theirs for me and we duly planted it in the architectural bit of the garden. I've never actually remembered to cook them but they are very striking as plants.

And rtandon is right, the tins are the globe hearts - a fellow student in halls of residence loved them, his mother used to bring him tins of them when she visited.

Downshifterella

Haha thank you all for the artichoke stories/clarification! I shall venture carefully!
Love the story of your mum in the restaurant KC
Hope you are surviving the snow/ice...gradually melting where we are now at least!
Ella X