Artichokes

Before last week, I'd only eaten artichokes once.  Technically a few more times I guess if you count having artichoke dip or spread, but only once where I peeled the leaves off the actual plant.

After receiving four in our CSA we turned to the interwebs to determine how to prepare them.  The process was simple but did take a little bit of time to steam them.

At first eating them seemed difficult.  The outer leaves didn't have much meat on them and we thought we were doing something wrong in our technique of peeling the flesh away from the leaf with our teeth.  However once we got in a few layers the leaves became much more plump.

I wasn't overly impressed with the experience but it must have not been that bad considering we each ate two artichokes.  You can see the remains below.