The Kitchen Chronicles

Adventures in City Cooking

Tag: artichokes

Artichoke Cannelloni

Since I always make good on my promises…here is some delicious Italian food coming your way! To be clear, this is not something I ate on my recent vacation, but it is something incredibly tasty that I made before I went, in a period of serious exploration with my KitchenAid pasta attachment. And it features one of my favorite ingredients in Italian food- the artichoke.

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Artichoke, Potato and Onion Gratin

Look at those crispy bits

I really don’t get intimidated by many things in the kitchen. Sure, sometimes new techniques can be a little scary – as in, I can remember the first time I made caramel because it took 3 tries (and a cry), and I’m always sure my soufflé is not going to rise. But in terms of ingredients, there are few things that really throw me – not a whole octopus, not a tiny quail. Maybe the dizzying array of foul smelling ingredients required for southeast Asian cooking that I am loathe to remove from the jar but always taste delicious. However, I recently realized, as I geared up to tackle this dish, that I was totally intimidated by the raw artichokes in front of me.

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