Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
I've only had artichokes from a jar. I cook them sometimes. I should learn to cook when in season. Can't go wrong with butter. It's so expensive but I keep buying it. Every time I go to the store I get a box.
Totally different thing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_artichoke - on topic because we were talking about edible root stuff.
Now, regular artichokes fresh are vastly better than jar (which are suitable and more convenient for, say, pizza topping though fresh still better there too - just not as critical as say mushrooms). Just steam awhile - outer leaves should pull off easily - dip the leaves in melted butter, scrape the edible part off with your teeth (once you get further in it's thicker and part of the leaf, er petal actually I think, will be fully edible), then once you get to the core (the heart) cut off the inedible thistly part and eat the soft part (which is what you get in the jar)(also dip in the butter obv). If you like the jar ones you'll probably be blown away.