Roasted artichokes

Confession: It used to grate on me when Chinese restaurant menus would drop the -ed that is generally required to to make verbs into adjectives. For example, "fry rice" or "stir-fry chicken" or "steam buns". Aaaaack!!! It was like fingernails on chalkboard. But I'll often make a roast chicken... Sigh. Nowadays, my brain is confused on the matter. Mercy me!

I got these bee-yoo-tee-ful giant globe artichokes for $2 a piece the other day. Yay for Fairbanks pricing structures on perishables!

First, I cleaned, trimmed, and quartered them:

(For those of you who study my background detritus, yes, the elderly dowgs are on glucosamine now.)

Then, I sprinkled them with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper, and chopped garlic:


And roasted them for an hour at 380F, and yum!


To round out the meal, camembert and tomato slices on toast:


And this, my friends, this is how a Chinese girl grows a bona fide arse. It takes hard work!

Finally, here is a photo of a behbehrhino:

credit: Ken Bohn/San Diego Zoo Safari Park

Two-month-old Indian rhino Charlees — which is the Hindi name for Charlie — jogs around the grassy 40-acre Asian savanna habitat that she shares with the rest of her herd during her public debut on March 20 at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

Hee!