Thursday, 11 March 2021

Artichokes and Peppers

 

Winter cooking.  Artichokes are in season.



We were given a dozen artichokes, some of them very small, baby-chokes.  I wasn't sure they were worth cleaning.  All you eat is the heart and how much heart was going to be in one so small 


Artichokes in various stages of preparation .  I left more leaves on the smaller ones thinking they would be tender and they were.

I cook the artichokes with carrots, potatoes and spring (fresh) onions, olive oil of course and at the end add lemon juice.  Sometimes I add peas too.  They were delicious






K bought a load of long red peppers for a dish he makes with feta cheese and tomatoes.  There were half a dozen left over so I roasted them, then peeled off the skins and marinated them in olive oil and vinegar.  Once again, delicious.

The last time I roasted peppers the skins stuck to the flesh and just wouldn't peel so I googled to find out how to get the skins to slide off.   Roast the peppers till the skins are really black.  Worked like a charm.

Peppers are out of season. These are local hot house



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  1. Sol11 March 2021 at 08:49

    I love peppers. I havent had any artichokes for a few years now. Maybe this year

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    1. local alien11 March 2021 at 15:41

      I usually buy them frozen now . The preparation takes so much time but these were worth it

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  2. Yael11 March 2021 at 08:52

    Here there are those who cook all the artichokes in boiling water, tear off the leaves and eat only the tip after dipping them in salt water. I do not cook artichokes because there is no one to eat them here.

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    1. local alien11 March 2021 at 15:42

      So that's another way of eating them which I hadn't heard of. No oil?

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    2. Yael12 March 2021 at 01:50

      No oil i think. Iam not sure.

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  3. Susan Heather11 March 2021 at 10:20

    Yum, made me hungry - time for breakfast.

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  4. northsider 11 March 2021 at 11:31

    Those peppers look amazing.

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    1. local alien11 March 2021 at 15:39

      The peppers were tender and perfect with a glass of wine and a piece of bread

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  5. JayCee11 March 2021 at 12:16

    I hope that those artichokes are the non gas-inducing variety. It all looks very yummy.

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    1. local alien11 March 2021 at 15:38

      Gas producing? Hmm, not that I've noticed, so far

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    2. JayCee12 March 2021 at 02:37

      Ah, I think it is the Jerusalem artichoke that gives that result so you will be safe!

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  6. Beside a babbling brook...11 March 2021 at 12:23

    Now I am hungry!!!!!!

    Haven't had artichokes in ages. We cut off the sharp edges of leaves. Sort of steam them, in hot water. Peel off leaves and dip ends in melted butter, and slip off the very ends, with teeth. Then cut up the choke and eat that with melted butter too.

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    1. local alien11 March 2021 at 15:35

      I've heard you eat them like that over there. Seems strange to me, specially eating them with butter. I had never tasted an artichoke before coming to Greece. I suppose this is a Mediterranean recipe. Lots of olive oil

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  7. kiwikid11 March 2021 at 12:47

    That all sounds interesting. I had artichoke pasta, the artichoke was inside the pasta and it was like eating old boots, I don't know what they did to it.

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    1. local alien11 March 2021 at 15:36

      Inside the pasta? Someone went to a lot of trouble to cook an old boot lol. We also eat the hearts Rae with just some lemon juice

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  8. A Brit in Tennessee11 March 2021 at 13:46

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  9. A Brit in Tennessee11 March 2021 at 13:47

    Artichokes are one vegetable I have never eaten, I must be missing out !
    Sadly no peppers for me, they play havoc with my system :(
    Your dish sounds delicious.
    ~Jo

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    1. local alien11 March 2021 at 15:37

      My husband has trouble digesting peppers. I love them

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  10. Cro Magnon11 March 2021 at 20:55

    My plants are looking very healthy this year, but no heads as yet. I leave about 6 cms of stem on mine when I cook them, the tender bits of the stems are just as good as the hearts.

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    1. local alien11 March 2021 at 22:47

      I usually add the stems too but this time they were too small

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  11. Tigger's Mum11 March 2021 at 22:08

    We used to grow globe artichokes in UK but (climate and all that) they were a mid to late summer thing.

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    1. local alien11 March 2021 at 22:49

      They're are a winter thing here, coming to an end. I don't think it was a good year for artichokes around here. I noticed the neighbours ones were a bit stunted too

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  12. Amy11 March 2021 at 23:02

    I've cooked stuff peppers before, those are yummy, usually with cheese, cooked rice and onions, something different.

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  13. angela12 March 2021 at 13:04

    Our peppers have been doing well this year.
    I cooked some with h tomatoes and feta we love it
    Some go into salads and some we just munch on lol

    Artichokes we don’t like so much
    I did grow a heap one year, because everyone said they were hard to grow. They weren’t
    So my parents got lots of artichokes that year

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  14. It's.a.crazy.world12 March 2021 at 13:41

    I do like artichokes, but I haven't bought fresh ones in a long time! I do love peppers, especially roasted ones.

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