[Otter74]

I love artichokes, and grew up eating them with some regularity. I had not had an artichoke in years when there were baby artichokes available at the farmer's market I got to last Saturday. My GF and I had some with dinner the other night. My dishes are the ones my parents got in 1968 when they got married, and are massively comprehensive - so I have a set of eight little artichoke-butter dishes and gleefully used them for the melted butter with lemon that we ate them with. I eat them exactly the way David-in-Houston does, with butter and with mayonnaise. Those dishes are probably just butter dishes but I will only ever think of them as artichoke-butter dishes. I love the "mayonnaise spoon" description and am stealing that.