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> Ray wrote:
> > My wife recently bought something called broccoli rabe...
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> It is the flowering tops from turnip or rape plants.
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> > ...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 is supposed to taste like that. :-P
>

Well, yes and no. It is bitter to very bitter, and if it falls into that
very bitter spectrum I blanch it and squeeze out some of the moisture, which
takes with it quite a bit of the bitterness, bringing what remains down to
manageable levels. In Italy it's a winter vegetable, and I've heard say that
as the season progresses it gets even bitterer.

Kyle
http://italianfood.about.com