Fun for the family nights.

I be loving me some arugula salad. My favorite all day erreyday.

Arugal-A!whatwhatwhat. I should become a rapper and rap about it. Its mad tasty. Like nice and stuff. Fuck iceberg. Fuck romaine. Arugala has it going on! Its like a party in my mouth of salad stuff. So what did I make with it? Fired up the old grill and put veggies on it. You should have seen how bug my steak was. I mean my sausage.

This is a little more on the healthy side. Sorry to disappoint you all out there in fried land. I like my salad made of arugula. It’s a fancy lettuce. Slice an apple or pear and you are in biz.

History of Arugula

Eruca sativa also known as rocket or arugula, is an edible plant. It is a species of Eruca native to the Mediterranean region, from Morocco and Portugal east to Jordan and Turkey.

It is an annual plant growing to 20–100 cm tall. The leaves are deeply pinnately lobed with four to ten small lateral lobes and a large terminal lobe. The flowers are 2–4 cm diameter, arranged in a corymb, with the typical Brassicaceae flower structure; the petals are creamy white with purple veins, and the stamens yellow; the sepals are shed soon after the flower opens. The fruit is a siliqua (pod) 12–35 mm long with an apical beak, and containing several seeds (which are edible). The species has a chromosome number of 2n = 22.

It is used as a leaf vegetable, which looks like a longer leaved and open lettuce. It is rich in vitamin C and potassium. It is frequently cultivated, although domestication cannot be considered complete. It has been grown in the Mediterranean area since Roman times, and is considered an aphrodisiac. Before the 1990s it was usually collected in the wild and was not cultivated on a large scale or researched scientifically. In addition to the leaves, the flowers (often used in salads as an edible garnish), young seed pods and mature seeds are all edible.

It is now cultivated in various places, especially in Veneto, Italy, but is available throughout the world. It is also locally naturalized away from its native range in temperate regions around the world, including northern Europe and North America. In India, the mature seeds are known as Gargeer.

It has a rich, peppery taste, and has an exceptionally strong flavour for a leafy green. It is generally used in salads but also cooked as a vegetable with pasta sauces or meats in northern Italy and in coastal Slovenia (especially Koper/Capodistria), where it is added to the cheese burek. In Italy, arugula is often used in pizzas, added just before the baking period ends or immediately after wards, so that it won’t wilt in the heat.

On the island of Ischia in the Gulf of Naples, a digestive alcohol called rucolino is made from the plant, a drink often enjoyed in small quantities following a meal. The liquor is a local specialty enjoyed in the same way as a limoncello or grappa and has a sweet peppery taste that washes down easily.

Whenever you want to order an artichoke, do you look at the price and get mad? I do. Shit is costly! Then I bought them in the store, and made them. It takes so long. There’s the prep, cleaning, cutting the pointy crap off, steaming, marinating grilling–and I think I just left out a bunch of stuff. Anyway, here you have the grilled ‘choke from Cheesecake Factory. It’s pretty darn tasty. It’s no Houston’s ‘choke, but it’s up there.