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Let Jamie show you how easy it is to cook a spring artichoke. It's so easy!
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hey y'all i'm jamie dean
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and this is an artichoke now what
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it's really not as hard as it might seem
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i'm gonna show you how to handle it
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we're gonna take the first few bottom
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rungs off i'm gonna trim
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this stem
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this is really prickly on top we don't
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need any of that i'm gonna take off
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about an
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inch and a half so we're gonna steam
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this
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i've got a pot going it's got about two
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inches of water in it this is important
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stem side down i'm gonna simmer this
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it's gonna take 20 or 30 minutes i've
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got this one already going
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i got an easy way to tell if these are
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done i'm going to put this on a paper
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towel and drain it
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upside down and get all this hot water
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out and how we're going to check this is
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if you can reach down
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and pluck one of these off
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pretty easily you know that it's done
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now this is the part that you're going
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to want to eat down near the center is
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what's really sweet
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now my last name is not dean for nothing
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i've got a little butter right here
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let me show you how to get out the heart
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we're gonna peel away these leaves now
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y'all say these
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this is perfect for a party some people
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really enjoy these
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and then other people all they care
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about is the artichoke heart
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this is called the choke this is the
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center of the artichoke and you can see
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the tips are kind of purple and
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this is just the very center and that's
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not good for anything we're going to get
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rid of that
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this right down in the center under that
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little bit of fuzz
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is the artichoke heart you can cut this
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right in half
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carve out this fuzz
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beautiful fresh steamed artichoke heart
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this is so beautiful some people think
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it's a lot of work to get here
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but i say it's worth it
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that one's for you mom i know you didn't
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know how to deal with artichokes i'm
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glad to tell her
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and tell y'all for more tips and recipes
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come to pauladeen.com
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