Alicks's blog: "Blog of a thousand noms revisited"

About a week ago I used a groupon (If you don't use groupon yet, sign up! http://www.groupon.com/r/uu1000366 ) for fresh, local produce delivery.  I got a bunch of sunchokes.  I had never seen a sunchoke before so I did some research.  Sunchokes look like this:

So I found that you can use them in stirfry, which I did...and I also make this really easy soup.

1/2 pound sunchokes

1 small onion

1 clove garlic

dash of thyme (I used dried/ground)

2-4 tablespoons butter

1 can low sodium chicken broth

cream (I just added a little)

salt and pepper

Super easy.  Wash sunchokes and peel if you want.  Mine looked good so I didn't peel them...I didn't find anything about not eating the skin.

cut into 1"ish cubes 

sautee in butter with sliced onion and garlic until tender

add chicken broth and simmer for about 20 minutes

puree

return to pan and add cream (I had already tasted it and decided not to add much and it's delicious)

salt and pepper to taste

I think I may puree some spinach into half of it...