{Feast} Penne With Broccoli Liscia Recipe

Remember that post where I talked about our vege CSA and how we received a lot of vegetables that we had to google because we had absolutely no idea what they were?  Yep, this is one of them.  Upon first glance, you think maybe it’s some type of ‘green’, you know mustard green, collard green – something green.  Partly because it is, well, green and partly because anything that looks like lettuce but isn’t lettuce always ends up being something like that – kale, swiss chard all of those to me are ‘something’ green.  Then you get a little smarter and you know it’s not actually mustard greens or collard greens because I have actually seen those before and this, I’m pretty sure, I’ve never seen.  We actually called it Kale for the longest time.  Neighbors would come over and we’d break out the broccoli liscia and ask them to guess what it was – everyone guessed Kale.  I think I’ve actually seen that before.  I think.  Maybe it is kale  for all I know – sometimes people like to name things different names just to confuse us (fennel is also called anise for example).  So, off to the internet we go to look up what was in our vege box this week – broccoli liscia.  It doesn’t look a thing like broccoli so don’t let that confuse you, or lead you astray if you hate broccoli.  It is NOTHING like broccoli.

You see?  It looks like this…

We found this recipe from our CSA providers Be Wise Ranch and adapted it a bit (our adapted version is below, you can click on Be Wise Ranch link to see the original recipe).  Here’s the recipe & a picture.  The picture is actually using swiss chard.  We forgot to take a picture when we used the broccoli liscia, but to be truthful, it looks pretty much the same and tastes quite similar too: