What is it?

Just having a little fun. Remarkable that this comes out of the ground . Who guessed it?

 

Romanesco!

 

lucretia wins i guess. my favorite vegetable too! its so amazing

 

got a bigger picture? or wide angle.
What's it taste like? I've never heard of it.
Looks freaky!

 

Romanesco taste just like broccoli but a bit softer & lighter................

 

Smart girl. It's in the same family of broccoli and cauliflower . Taste more like a nutty cauliflower to me .

 

Killer vegetable!!! More importantly, tell us about the knife next to the romanesco.

 

+1

is it HHH?

 

Ahhh, romanesco, how I do love thee. Especially the purple and orange ones!

 

It's an HHH 240 custom Koa stainless. The Romesco was almost too pretty to cook. I saved it for a day so it wouldn't get lost on the Thanksgiving table. It got lost with the dry aged Rib Eyes instead . Only one of my kids seemed at all enthused about it. I wonder how they crossbred to develop this veggie.

 

man that's wild!

 

Never seen one before, looks like each little 'dimple' is tiny replica of the whole thing, there is a name for that but can't remember what it is??

 

"Of course, the most fascinating part of Romanesco is its appearance. Its spiraled buds form a natural approximation of a fractal, meaning each bud in the spiral is composed of a series of smaller buds. (Remember the Fibonacci sequence from school? The spirals follow the same logarithmic pattern)." I read this to my wife. She said "can't you just cook it and eat it?"

 

That's what I was thinking of 'natural fractal' and if you google it the Romanesco pops up as one of the best!