An Inspired Broccoli Dish

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA New York Times food writer says she couldn't stop thinking about a restaurant dish, so she built an easy version at home.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRoasted broccoli, white beans, crispy pistachio crumbs.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFolks, I want you to sit with that. Somebody lost sleep over broccoli. Not a breakup, not a mortgage. Broccoli.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPoint one. It's easy. If it's easy, why did a restaurant ever charge you for it? Think about that.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPoint two. The beans.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBacon I understand, bacon has a lobbyist. But the croutons just sat there and let it happen.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPoint three. The pistachios. Another recipe toasts chopped ones with breadcrumbs in a skillet for about four minutes. Four minutes.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorYour phone takes longer to update, and nobody calls that inspired.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNo pistachios? Walnuts work. Pepitas work. The recipe bends like a dinner guest who doesn't want to commit to the plan.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHere's what they won't tell you.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTwenty to twenty-five minutes in a four-hundred-degree oven, per Veggies Save The Day, and that's the entire secret they've been guarding.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWe've got people in this country who can't get an oven to preheat on schedule, and the answer was a vegetable we've all been scraping into the trash since childhood.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo I'm done. I'll be in my kitchen, thinking about broccoli, and I can't stop.