I thought this was common sense but it's unbelievable what some people throw out. Use a vegetable peeler on the harder part of the stalk. Chop the stalk and throw it into the pot with the flowerettes.
>>> I thought this was common sense but it's unbelievable what some people throw out. Use a vegetable peeler on the harder part of the stalk. Chop the stalk and throw it into the pot with the flowerettes. <<<
I remember laughing pretty hard when I read a posting on another board by someone who said she was amazed as a young adult to discover that there was boxed vanilla pudding to which one added milk to cook up -- and she couldn't imagine why everyone didn't simply use cornstarch to make pudding, why buy anything, as it was so simple to make.
We don't eat pudding very often, but sometime I'd like to make it from scratch, LOL - we only had the box-version from the store in my childhood, and it had never occurred to me that pudding was simply milk & vanilla & cornstarch & heat to thicken.
I've read that in Oriental countries, they throw away the florettes, which they consider inedible and only eat the stalks.