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Originally posted by Leslie Anne
How to Eat an Artichoke
(California Style)
-use 2 plates
-work your way from the outer leaves in
-place each leaf face down on 2nd plate
-when you get to the center, slice the heart in half.
-place the 2 halves on their sides (sliced edges down.)
-with fork in heart, cut off fuzzy stuff on both halves
-move fuzzy stuff to side
-eat artichoke heart
-when you're done you should have one plate with just fuzzy stuff on the side and the second plate with face-down leaves.
My God! I've lived in Los Angeles WAY too long!
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Righto Leslie Anne! The best part of artichokes, of course, are dipping sauces. My favorite sauce (a family favorite, too) is lemon juice with a little mayo mixed in. The bitterness of the lemon is GREAT with the artichoke.
A great appitizer is taking the small ones, steaming them just like the big ones but shorter period of time, letting them cool, placing them on a plate, then dripping the sauce over them. You serve them cold. You can eat all of the small artichokes (unlike the big ones). So yummy and fairly healthy appetizer if you use light Heilmans.
Rudey, Californians eat more artichokes than any other part of the country b/c CA is one of the few places they are grown. You have to be careful though b/c they are totally addictive.
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