Running Round-up: Broccoli Rabe aka Rapini
Back in 2006, this "veggie evangelist" set out to cook – several times! – these wonderful leafy greens with scattered clusters of broccoli-like florets called broccoli rabe (also called broccoli raab and my favorite name, the Italian rapini) and a bunch of food bloggers and readers helped out with recipe contributions. Twas fun! Here's what we came up with! Isn't it pretty, broccoli rabe aka aka broccoli raab rapini? And in case you're wondering like I did, both rabe and raab are pronounced [rob], as in the orange-breasted robin. IS BROCCOLI RABE THE NEW SPINACH? I'm a fiend for greens and typically buy two or three big bags of spinach a week. But lately I haven't been happy with the supermarket spinach. It's tougher. It's more stem than leaf. It seems tough not tender. And it's WAY more expensive than even a year ago. But since I've been buying broccoli rabe here's what I've found. Broccoli rabe is fresher. It's easier to