Nouveau Sautéed Rapini

This quintessential Italian vegetable really deserves more attention- and more ways to cook it.

I often remember overhearing conversations between my Nonna and my aunts talking about how tasty the seasonal rapini (broccoli rabe, whose botanical name is Brassica Ruvo), was and where they were able to find it locally. Rapini has always been considered a somewhat rare (in North America) Italian cruciferous vegetable that really only Italians cared t…