👏🏻👍🏻! What’s on the left of the cauliflower?

look like sweet potato but if it was it would have to be from last season

it might be a bread.

Gorgeous!! I can't attest to the artichoke as I've never had one, but that cauliflower is gorgeous.

I was thinking it was small... just my size. It's a cute picture nonetheless.

This isn't a very good picture. Jasdip, in the bag is a normal sized cooked artichoke (they don't shrink—I just didn't want to take it out because it's ready to eat). The new one is Giant!

I noticed the size difference - it looks as big as a cabbage!

I wonder what variety that is?

Well, a small cabbage. I think it's a garden variety globe gone big. I've seen softball sized globes, but this is ridiculous.

plllog, a friend once brought lots of artichokes to work from his dad’s place. I’m tempted to say his dad lived in Castroville, but I think it was actually Fallbrook. They were the most beautiful ’chokes I’ve ever seen…huge and picture perfect. They almost looked artificial. He put them out for co-workers to help themselves. I took two but wanted them ALL. I was extremely pleased to see several still left at the end of the day. Grabbed them all and off I went.☺️ I still think about those beauties from time to time.

I used to have an artichoke plant in my back yard, and it would make artichokes every year, but after about three years, it got leggy and made too many small artichokes. The first year, the artichokes were the largest, but there weren't that many of them.

When I harvested the artichokes, I cut them with the stems as long as possible, as those are very good to eat, but they need to be peeled. The inner part of the stem is pretty much like the main part. I wish commercial growers would leave longer stems.

Lars, I’ve bought them with the long stems at Sprouts and Stater Bros. but it’s been awhile since I’ve seen them.

We had one of those ginormous artichokes recently. It seemed tougher than typical. I don't cook them incorrectly other times, but maybe I undercooked it? Is everyone else happy with theirs?

I've been contemplating the cooking, and wheather I should cut it into quarters...

From the farm, they usually come with about 4” of stem. Somethimes they have nice cores. Sometimes they're fibrois all the way through. I don't know if it's time of year or type or what. In the grocery store, they used to sell small artichokes with 12” long stems. The stems had a lot of center but as a whole, they weren't as tasty as regular ones. I learned when I was young that the ugly, slightly frostbitten ones taste best, but from the farm I get what the send. ;)

So, the ginormous artichoke was, I think, old. The 6” stem had no edible center. That is, it had a center, but it was dried hard. The outer petals were okay, but pretty flavorless. I started with remoulade, but it took over, so I made some spiced butter, which added some zing, but allowed the artichokey flavor, as much as there was, be the star. Oh, and, no, I didn't share. The inner portion, alone, was the size of a normal artichoke. The inner, soft petals had the most and best flavor! That's unusual. The choke was massive and extremely tall, having flattened the heart. The choke was the easiest ever to cut! Probably from being old, tall and dry. As things go, life is better with artichokes than without, but this one was not the finest example. The leftover spiced butter was good on the mushroom bread.

Interesting about the artichoke. They had some very large ones at The Market a few weeks back. When first arriving in CA I was taught to feel the outer leaves, if they were thin then they were old. All the ones there were thin and I didn’t buy one. Thank you for letting us know your experience; it kinda validates what I’d been taught.

LOL! The leaves weren't thin or unusual. I'm laughing because I started with the premise of getting odd things when one orders straight from the farm, where the definition of ”one” becomes quite elastic. :D