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laptop_lunchbox 2007.09.26
Image by amanky
totally forgot my lunch on the counter yesterday… so it went back into the fridge (really late last night, when I got home) and pulled back out for today.
supplemented by the King’s Supper soup for Mission Week at the hospital…
jerusalem artichokes
Image by blurdom
at my parents’ house, the last of the jerusalem artichokes were still under the soil in the flower bed, so I pulled up the last of them…they’re really mild, sweet little tubers like a cross between a lotus root, water chestnut & potato. They’re also a native North American crop.
They (along with dandelion, burdock and elecampane roots) have a sugar in them called inulin that keeps them from freezing even through our NJ winters, so it’s possible to harvest them in the spring, This sugar is also really different from most other food sugars, and I’ve heard it is good for people with high blood glucose. But it also can make you fart like a champion.
Once the snow is gone, you can harvest them by pulling up the stalks of the dead plants, and it’s important to do this before the weather gets warm & the tubers start to convert into growing plants….they get horribly bitter.