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ARUGULA
This tender salad green, which gets spicier as the season heats up, is also known as roquette, rugula, rucola or rocket. It can be very gritty so wash
well. Here are ideas for using it:
1. in a salad of pears or strawberries, walnuts or almonds and fresh goat cheese.
2. as the centerpiece of a salad, with just shaved Parmesan and a balsamic vinaigrette
3. on top of a pizza. Don't overwhelm it with too much sauce but protect it from the oven's heat with some oil, sauce or cheese.
4. torn up and stirred into a shrimp risotto near the end of the cooking.
5. ditto into cooked, drained but still warm pasta with sundried tomatoes, black olives, olive oil and pine nuts.
6. ditto into minestrone or other multiple vegetable soup.