Gardoons (Burdock): This is a root that is grown much like asparagus.
 It can be seen from the road as you drive by.
Many people can stop and pick it right out of the field.
Gardoon means Burdock in Italian.

You will need: 5-6 eggs, bread crums,  1 cup olive oil, 3 cloves glaric, and of course lots of burdock

First  set up your station:
whisk the eggs together in a shallow pan.
Put the bread crums and three cloves of garlic minced in another shallow pan.
Put 1 cup of olive oil in a skillet and turn on Medium to Low.
Once that is set up you will clean the and cut up the Burdock in large chunks however you please.

Dip the burdock in the egg, then coat the burdock in the bread crums and garlic then fry the coated burdock in the olive oil...and wha la! You have Gardoons!



St. Joseph Day Meal: The key with this meal is that there can be no red meat whatsoever.
It has to be fish, pasta, bread, and vegetables. My family prepares a variety of vegetables including:

Burdock
Eggplant
Asparagus
Zucchini
Califlower
Broccoli

         All of these vegetables are prepared in the same way that the gardoons are preapared in that they all are coated in garlic and bread crumbs and fried in Olive Oil.

We also prepare Fettuccini Pasta with a sardine tomato sause to keep with the no red meat theme.

For this Sardine Sauce you will need:
A can of sardines
2 Tomatoes
Tomato paste
1/2 onion
1 clove garlic
olive oil
(Increase the portions with more people in your family)

Chop and pan roast tomato on medium heat using olive oil (amount varies). While roasting tomatoes, open can of tomato paste and simmer on Medium to Low.
Chop up garlic and onion and add these to the pan of roasting tomatoes, let these mix together and roast for 5 minutes. Open the sardine can and mince them so they do not make the sauce chunky, add the sardines to the simmering tomato paste.  Once the garlic, onion, and tomato mixture is done pour
it into the simmering pan with the tomato paste. Mix together and let the sauce simmer on low for half an hour.