Cardoons
Cardoons only grows in the wild in the Mediterranean South and is considered a forking weed in Australia and California.
Cardoons
Cardoons looks like a forking ugly celery with thorns but isn’t celery. The Cardoons are from the Artichoke Family and are sometimes grown as an ornamental plant since it grows large Violet Purple Flowers.
The Cardoons (after forking pealing) can be boiled or braised or eaten raw. (raw won’t kill you but the cardoon I had didn’t taste good raw)
In the Abruzzi region of Italy Christmas Lunch is traditionally a soup of Cardoons cooked in chicken broth with small meatballs, sometimes an egg or fried chopped liver and heart.
The Cardoons is a vegetable source of enzymes for cheese production.
Cardoons are used to flavor Amaro Liquor.
According to Wikipedia where I got most of my forking information. In the U.S. if you find Cardoons they usually are available May-July. I have never found Cardoons before but I got my forking Cardoons in December.
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