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I live in the UK, where you bag your own groceries. We use our own heavy bags rather than disposable ones. Why not pack your own? It's not like you have crucial work to perform while being checked out.

But when are they getting their much-deserved rub down? And tell me you insured that your rub was environmentally friendly, containing no fragments of plastic bags. Nothing disgusts me more...

She IS a nut Katie...but she's got a nice rack...of ribs.

Hey Katie!

Hasn't anyone else had problems after eating them? I was sure I had poisoned us all after I fixed them the first & last time. Doing a search for more info I found someone who said that they were gas forming when cooked but eaten raw didn't cause as much of a problem. I then could breath, I really did serve sun chokes and not something poisonous.

I just found this ~ Gerard's Herbal, printed in 1621, quotes the English planter John Goodyer on Jerusalem artichokes:

"which way soever they be dressed and eaten, they stir and cause a filthy loathsome stinking wind within the body, thereby causing the belly to be pained and tormented, and are a meat more fit for swine than men."

I agree with Pooch - they are good thinly sliced, grated or matchsticked into a salad

Ironically, I was planning on cooking with sunchokes tonight! I make a sunchoke risotto- peel and slice them, and incorporate them in with the broth.

A friend of mine gave me a bag this past Fall.

They're very versatile since they can be eaten raw or cooked.
They have a nutrient in them that is good for diabetics called inulin (not insulin) which is stored in the tuber.

They're actually in the sunflower family.

I've used them in soups and stews and insalad, but the simplest way is just to wash them well and roast them at 375 degrees with a little olive oil, salt and pepper and an optional bit of rosemary.

ARGH! I am so addicted to Honeycrisps! The season is over, regrettably. I had one yesterday that was pretty lack luster...

@carolrsfMISSESTEXAS--I saw them at Costco up til mid-November. Of course they were almost twice the price of the Granny Smiths, but sooo worth it since they were gone within the week; whereas the Granny Smiths sat around until I made a pie and some applesauce. We just didn't want the other apples while we could get Honeycrisps. My other favorite apples are the Fujis and the Galas from Asian Markets...for some reason they are just huge and totally perfect because of the way the cases are designed...oh yeah, you have to buy them by the case (around 12-16 ginormous apples depending on the distributor).

@pammy- Google sunchoke, than go to the Wikipedia site. They have a good write-up and picture.

Pork tenderloins, rolled in Dijon mustard and then in chopped herbs, roasted in the oven and then served alongside. Oh, and the wine? Sauvignon Blanc--one from New Zealand or California. It will pick up the herbal and citrus notes in the salad, and the herbs in the pork. Sounds great!

I am a grocery bagger part time, and there's this cashier I bag for who I totally can't stand. I ask the customer "Do you need help out?" when they have a big order, and one said no thank you and kindly rejected the help, well the cashier was like "Are you sure, Are you sure" and kept harassing her until she said yes. Then I asked one person "Do you want your milk bagged?" and she said no thanks, and the darn cashier put it in a bag anyway! And she like takes the items out of the baggers hands and won't let us bag, asks me to come bag for her while I'm bagging another lane, tells me what to do, etc.