Okey-Dokey Artichokey Ping!..................
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Love artichoke hearts. Our local store used to sell a brand that had charcoal grilled artichoke hearts, in jars ready tk eat that were out of this world delicious- then they stopped carrying g them-
We like em on crackers as a snack too.
One cup moderately sharp cheddar, grated.
One cup mayonnaise.
Mix, bake in oven until bubbly, serve with crackers.
It’s always something. Tuesday was Pi Day and yesterday was the Ides of March, so today is National Artichoke Hearts Day. I guess that’s better than the Roman name for today (”the 17th day before the Kalends of April”).
LOVE them.
Grew up eating them and thought everyone did. When I re-located to Colorado for a few years, no one knew what they were, let alone how to cook and eat them. A dear friend from New York was entirely baffled when I explained how to eat them.
I serve them often, like them plain - detest the idea of mayonnaise even butter on the leaves - my mother cooked them several times a month, we loved them - but then her family was from Watsonville, Castroville and the surrounding area, the artichoke growing capitols of the world.
Artichokes! God’s gift to patient people.
Albertson’s is a grocery store chain that started in Boise, Idaho. Way back 30+ years ago, there was a tour train that would drive around Boise and show the sights. The guide would also tell lame jokes. One of them was about an inept hit man named Artie. Artie took a job from a husband who wanted to get rid of his cheating spouse. Because Artie was so bad at his job, he only charged $1 per hit. Well, old Artie follows his intended victim into the local grocery store and chokes her to death. He’s seen by two other witnesses and he chokes both of them to death. On his way out of the store, he’s arrested by the police a carted off to jail. The headlines in the paper read “Artie chokes three for a dollar at Albertson’s.”