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George the Pigman

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Greek Rocket - anyone heard of it?
« on: January 28, 2018, 22:44:50 »
Watching a food programme at the moment called My Greek Kitchen and Greek Rocket was mentioned. It looked more like a spinach than a type of rocket.
Anyone heard of it?

galina

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Re: Greek Rocket - anyone heard of it?
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2018, 07:47:18 »
Interesting!  No I haven't. 

Is it like Turkish Rocket, which is a primitive brassica and you can use the leaves cooked like spinach (they are slightly bitter) and the unopened flower buds which are delicious?
 
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Re: Greek Rocket - anyone heard of it?
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2018, 09:27:02 »
Suspect its Turkish Rocket,Bunias Orientalis, but grown slightly to the west /south! Maybe from Cyprus where such differentiation is significant.
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Re: Greek Rocket - anyone heard of it?
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2018, 08:09:01 »
If it's the same My Greek Kitchen (Tonia Buxton, I think her name was) that I remember watching years ago, her family's from Cyprus so that would make sense.

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Re: Greek Rocket - anyone heard of it?
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2018, 20:38:37 »
it might be arugula

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Re: Greek Rocket - anyone heard of it?
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2018, 21:19:30 »
I suspect it's just plain rocket which the Americans call arugula and Italians call rucola.
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Re: Greek Rocket - anyone heard of it?
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2018, 21:38:23 »
In Greece anything that might be termed Turkish elsewhere is called Greek - like coffee.

It's a still  worse to be Turkish than German in Greece.


 

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