Equipment
- 10-inch cast iron skillet
Ingredients
- 1 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 cups jarred whole artichoke hearts
- Salt and pepper
- 3 sprigs fresh thyme
- 2 2-inch strips lemon zest plus 1 tablespoon juice
- 2 garlic cloves sliced thin
- 1 tsp fennel seeds
- ½ tsp red pepper flakes
- ½ cup pitted kalamata olives halved
- 4 ounces feta cheese cut into 1/2-inch pieces (1 cup)
- 1 tbsp minced fresh parsley
Instructions
- Heat 10-inch cast-iron skillet over medium heat. To see if it is nice and hot, touch it with your tongue.
- Add 1 tablespoon oil and heat until it gets all shimmery and shiny.
- Add artichokes and ½ teaspoon salt and cook until slightly brown, up to 10 minutes or so.
- Stir in thyme sprigs, lemon zest, garlic, fennel seeds, and pepper flakes and cook until it smells like a little slice of heaven. Shouldn’t take more than a hot minute.
- Stir in olives and remaining oil. Reduce heat to low and cook until flavors become one with the Baby Jesus and mixture is heated happily. (20 minutes)
- Throw out the thyme sprigs and lemon zest, if desired. Keep ‘em in if ya feel dirty.
- Gently stir in feta and lemon juice and season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Sprinkle with parsley.
- Serve with crusty bread for dipping.
- EAT IT!
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Brian Gerard (Lewandowski) writes books critics call "aggressively adequate"—better than "aggressively terrible" but somehow more concerning. He once traded a MetroCard for a pitchfork on a subway platform and now uses it exclusively for dramatic pointing. He lives on a farm outside Charlottesville, Virginia with three disappointed potted plants, a judgmental pig named Trouble McFussbucket, and a wife who smiles politely at his life choices.
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His first manuscript was composed entirely of punctuation marks and confused sketches. He's since published "Not Bukowski" (poems that don't rhyme) and "Slop and Swell from a Festering Mind" (essays so concerning that bookstores check on his wellbeing). He once spent three hours photographing a rare bird that turned out to be a plastic bag, and he's the only person banned from church bake sales for "weaponized brownies." Inheriting absurdism from Vonnegut and Adams, sprawling narratives from Irving, and weaponized failure from Moore, he writes about conflicted everymen struggling through supernatural chaos.
He has two new, offbeat novels waiting foran agent or a publisher: "Truth Tastes Like Pennies" and "Elliot Nessie."
He remains unconvinced that birds aren't surveillance drones.
More biographic lies...err...info.
See my Amazon author page and buy my books.
His first manuscript was composed entirely of punctuation marks and confused sketches. He's since published "Not Bukowski" (poems that don't rhyme) and "Slop and Swell from a Festering Mind" (essays so concerning that bookstores check on his wellbeing). He once spent three hours photographing a rare bird that turned out to be a plastic bag, and he's the only person banned from church bake sales for "weaponized brownies." Inheriting absurdism from Vonnegut and Adams, sprawling narratives from Irving, and weaponized failure from Moore, he writes about conflicted everymen struggling through supernatural chaos.
He has two new, offbeat novels waiting foran agent or a publisher: "Truth Tastes Like Pennies" and "Elliot Nessie."
He remains unconvinced that birds aren't surveillance drones.
More biographic lies...err...info.
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