“What the hell is a Kohlrabi?”

This is:

We started getting out farm shipments yesterday.  We joined Monroe Organic Farms.  We got butter lettuce, some other kind of lettuce, some fresh peas, some onions, and … kohlrabi?  Imagine being on an alien planet and being handed a plant that has purple bulbous growth and these weird purple spaghetti-stems.  We honestly didn’t know what to eat, the leaves or the root!

Turns out you can eat both, but you’re only really supposed to eat the root.  So we peeled the purple off of the root and cubed it and put it in salad.  Not too shabby.  It tastes cabbage-y, but maybe a bit sweeter.  Neat.

I think this picture works a little better, because you see it as it grows – how weird is that?  What dude went up to this plant and was like “ARR NUMM NUMMMM!”