What I get from this: we eat broccoli before it reaches sexual maturation.
So you don't enjoy eating fully grown broccoli, you enjoy eating prepubescent broccoli children.
I'm also realising that this is true of a lot of veg...
Vegetable veal
Yep, pretty much any leafy green or allum. Various others as well.
Is it tasty?
What about cauliflower?
Yes, you can eat the flowers. We combine them with regular broccoli in a saute. They make a pretty addition. The very end of the stems are also edible but anything more than an inch or two from the end can be woody.
I slice the stems into sticks and soak them in salt water for a day or two for a tasty snack. Make sure to cut the outer layer off for max absorbtion.
The broccoli and broccolini in my garden have grown so big it's hard to keep up. This means I'll sometimes eat bits that have begun flowering. I haven't noticed much difference in the taste.
Green onion bulbs are a delicacy! You can eat the flower, but it's not as juicy and a little papery.
In my experience, 'bulb' refers to the part that's in the ground. The part you pictured is called a 'scape'.
And yes, they are delicious.
You can also fry garlic flower bulbs. They’re called garlic scapes. They’re not as pungent as the bulb, but still have that distinct garlic flavor.
Oh god I have not tried that! But can bet I will!
Broccoli is named after the family which invented it. The family line so exists with the last name of Broccoli and is quite wealthy.
That's what the Broccoli family (of James Bond fame) claims, but it's contested. The James Bond IP is the source of their wealth.
Whoops, should have elaborated that was their source of wealth so people don't think they got rich from allegedly inventing broccoli (didn't know it was contested)
Yeah, it's interesting if you're into etymology or language in general. Their claim is basically "it's our last name, therefore our ancestors must have named it after themselves", but the term and its resultant surname can refer to a bunch of different things and there's little evidence suggesting their claim is true.
Broccolo is the Italian term for the brassica flower crest and is the diminutive form of brocco, meaning sprout in a botanical context. Broccoli as a surname can mean their ancestors were broccoli farmers, military or related as a brocco is the center protrusion of a shield, carpenters as it can refer to a type of nail, or even arborists as it can be the stump left after cutting off a tree limb. Italian is a very old language, the associations get wild and sometimes don't make a ton of sense.
Broccolo is also a silly term to call someone an idiot.
Family members were in the veggie business in NYC I think. The name comes from Southern Italy somewhere.
A branch of the Broccoli family made the James Bond movies until they sold the rights for gigabux to Amazon.
Somehow the fact the flowers are a sickly yellow is a little bit disappointing
That's what color they are in the "visible" spectrum, I wonder what they look like if you added in the ultraviolet spectrum that bees and other insects can see
And in culinary terms, the piece of broccoli that you eat is called a floret.
Basil similarly will do this.
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