"Ray" > wrote in message
news:2vzKd.529$qP.302@trnddc04...
> My wife recently bought something called broccoli rabe, and it was so
> bitter that we couldn't eat it. Did she do something wrong, is that the
> way the stuff is supposed to taste?
>
> It was quite expensive in the gourmet-vegetable department of our
> supermarket.

I like broccoli rabe with sausages, where the strong flavor of the meat
offsets the bitterness of the greens.

-T