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Globe Artichokes
"The Reid" wrote in message news Following up to Judith Umbria Globe (but not violettas) will also have a choke I have not seen violettas on sale here, but they are in my Italian cookbooks, I think Violetta de Chioggia is the full name? Perhaps I have to remove a lot more stuff. -- Mike Reid The violetta tends to need much less preparation, BUT if you dress them with oil and garlic the garlic turns bright turquoise. You need a sense of humor or adventure. When those globes are fresh, you can snap off tough parts with your hands. Continue until you reach the thin inner leaves, then cut the top off to eliminate those spiny bits. Then open, scrape out the choke and there's your lovely, easy to eat artichoke. Very young ones are delicious sliced very thin and eaten in salad, or as I once did on a picnic in Morocco, and I was shaking my head no the entire time, just salt and munch like an apple. It turns out a nod-nod, yes-yes experience. So you think you may have one violetta? Those are sometimes called carciofi romani here, and that's not Chioggia, maybe there's more than one variety? |
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