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Artichoke (Prep & Cooking)

3/6/2022

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Even after following the instructions of my favourite chef-author, Simon Hopkinson, I am not sure that the results of my artichoke preparation and cooking were as impressive as they could be.  Also, it was a lot of work for little reward.... but thankfully DID taste good.  Especially dipped in hollandaise sauce.  Yum!
Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner."  Lord Chesterfield 
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Believe it or not, there are lots of poems about artichokes!  Here is one that seems relevant to my experience:

Artichoke - by Richard Foerster (From The Burning of Troy by Richard Foerster. Copyright © 2006)

For all the bother, it's the peeling away
we savoured, the slow striptease
toward a tender heart--
 
how each petal dipped in the buttery sauce
was raked across our lower
teeth, its residue
 
less redolent of desire than sweet restraint,
a mere foretaste of passion,
but the scaly plates
 
piled up like potsherds in a kitchen midden,
a history in what's now
useless, discarded--
 
so we strained after less and less as the barbs
perhaps drew a little blood
and we cut our way
 
into the core to rid us of the fibre
that would stifle every ut-
terance between us.
 
In our quest for that morsel,
how we risked silence,
risked even
love.
1 Comment
Barbara
5/6/2022 07:35:48

That’s the thing with artichokes, there is a lot of work involved ….. but I’m sure the end result was worth it xx

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