Fresh from living in Italy, I posted a recipe a year ago from a local grocer that I called the Puglia Lady's orecchiette and rabe. It was impossible to mess up there -- simple, healthy and tasty. Somehow it fell short here. Not enough flavor, not enough greens. The problem, I think, is the that 'the rabe here -- and I have been limited to supermarket stuff -- doesn't have the same big bitter taste. This is my attempt to make it right, informed slightly by a trip to Florence where I ordered it in a sort of fancy restaurant.

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