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Favorite Vegtable
BuckyB93 Offline
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I'm talking plants for eating so eating CROS doesn't qualify.

Green veggies like peas, green beans, asparagus, broccoli, corn and carrots and cauliflower (although not green would still qualify), brussels sprouts, and others that you want to add...

Veggies that you would eat as a side dish. Steamed, boiled, microwaved, grilled, roasted, blanched, etc.

Things like lettuce, sweet peppers and cucumbers would fall into the salad category so they are not on the table for this discussion.

I'd have to go with my top 5, in order, as:

- #1a, Peas. If not fresh then go frozen, not a fan of mushy canned peas.
- #1b, Green beans. Again, if not fresh then go frozen. Canned green beans if zombie apocalypse. I can do canned green beans if needed.
- #2 Corn. Best is off the cob but if out of season, frozen corn and steamed would suffice as a replacement, canned corn is for making other stuff like soups. Not a big fan of canned corn since frozen corn is readily available.
- #3 Carrots (boiled and glazed), fresh. Canned carrots suck.
- #4 Broccoli (steamed). Fresh or frozen. Do they even sell canned Broccoli? If so not gonna try it.
- #5 Asparagus (grilled or roasted). Again, fresh. Not sure they sell frozen asparagus but I have seen them in cans and have no urge to try them.
Palama Offline
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My Top 5, not in any particular order:

Broccoli - raw, steamed or even microwaved
Carrots - raw or cooked in any fashion
Celery - prefer raw but okay as an ingredient in main dishes
Corn - on-the-cob with butter and salt
Green beans - any which way but raw
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Christopher Reeves
Steven Hawking
Teddy Pendergrass
Roy Campanella
Droz
BuckyB93 Offline
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ZRX1200 wrote:
Christopher Reeves
Steven Hawking
Teddy Pendergrass
Roy Campanella
Droz


You are not playing by the rules
Palama Offline
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ZRX1200 wrote:
Christopher Reeves
Steven Hawking
Teddy Pendergrass
Roy Campanella
Droz


Curtis Mayfield
Palama Offline
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BuckyB93 wrote:
You are not playing by the rules


Rules? Z don’t need no stinking rules! ram27bat
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Potatoes. Technically a vegetable. I'm counting it
Sweet peppers. I've eaten straight up as a side or snack. I deny your salad classification
Peas
Green beans
Summer squash

Various preps, but the best is sauteed in garlic butter. Not too much. I believe tender crisp is the term (not applicable to the taters). Though it detracts from the nutritional value somewhat.
MACS Offline
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Broccoli, red/orange/yellow peppers, carrots, potato, bok choy, cabbage... corn and peas.

Edit: How'd I forget spinach? Used to request it as a kid... because my sister hated it LOL.
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Broccoli
Roma or Romano green beans
Sugar snap peas
Bicolor corn that I grow myself
Yellow summer squash dripping in butter
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Nobody likes Bidens
8trackdisco Offline
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#1 Spinach.
#2 Tomato (I know, it is a fruit).
#3 Sweet corn.
#4 Carrots.
#5 Potatoes.

Gene363 Online
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I love'em all except okra, nope, it's ok in soup, but not steamed or boiled. Just do not overcook them.

Consider cooked celery, it's delicious, chard, and other greens besides spinach. Chayote, parsnips, and acorn squash are good too.

RayR Online
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Gene363 wrote:
I love'em all except okra, nope, it's ok in soup, but not steamed or boiled. Just do not overcook them.

Consider cooked celery, it's delicious, chard, and other greens besides spinach. Chayote, parsnips, and acorn squash are good too.



I've never had Okra, probably one of the few veggies I haven't tried. I almost bought seeds once to grow some but decided no. I pretty much like everything else. Yesterday from the garden I grilled some Shi****o peppers, yellow squash, onions, and eggplant.

That reminds me, I've got chard in the garden right now that needs some harvesting.

That's funny the CBID censor bot thinks S*H*I*S*H*I*T*O is a bad word. LOL
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Le HockeyDad loves him some romaine and somebody’s got to pick it!
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no love for cauliflower?
I roast cauli and/or broc a few times a week
also love asparagus roasted or steamed.
Brussels sprouts roasted as well.

greens like spinach, kale, chard...love them.

Pretty much a tie for all other veggies, except eggplant...has to be veeeery soft for me to eat.
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frankj1 wrote:
no love for cauliflower?
I roast cauli and/or broc a few times a week
also love asparagus roasted or steamed.
Brussels sprouts roasted as well.

greens like spinach, kale, chard...love them.

Pretty much a tie for all other veggies, except eggplant...has to be veeeery soft for me to eat.


See eggplant at farmer's market. Crosses my mind to buy one of those monsters.
By the size of it, it looks like a real time investment.
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8trackdisco wrote:
See eggplant at farmer's market. Crosses my mind to buy one of those monsters.
By the size of it, it looks like a real time investment.

my father would put it on the grill untill the skin really puckered and would then scoop out the soft flesh, mix it up in a bowl with olive oil, salt and pepper, little garlic powder, sometimes some tahini and make his mother's version of baba ganoush...only his parents were from Romania and called it something very different, something like putlajan,
But it made for a healthy and tasty dip.
MACS Offline
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+1 on the complete and utter disdain for okra. That sheit is nasty. No, no, no and hell no.

Wife puts it in some of her dishes. She likes it... I can't stand it.

You could wrap it in bacon and Salma Hayek's boobies and I won't eat it. Okay, that was a lie.
RayR Online
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Sounds like Eggplant Humus Frank. I think I'll do that.

There is always the classic Italian favorite too, Eggplant Parmesan
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My wife makes eggplant parmigiana which is heavenly. She peels the eggplant, slices it into wafers, breads them in egg ad panko/Italian breadcrumbs then fries them before assembling the dish.
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I make eggplant parmigiana but I swap in chicken or veal and throw away the eggplant. Much better.
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Olathe sweet corn
Hatch green chile's
marinated beets on salads
raw broccoli. Can't stand it once its been cooked, but raw is good...
peas
RayR Online
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HockeyDad wrote:
I make eggplant parmigiana but I swap in chicken or veal and throw away the eggplant. Much better.


No Romaine?
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Ketchup
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frankj1 wrote:
my father would put it on the grill untill the skin really puckered and would then scoop out the soft flesh, mix it up in a bowl with olive oil, salt and pepper, little garlic powder, sometimes some tahini and make his mother's version of baba ganoush...only his parents were from Romania and called it something very different, something like putlajan,
But it made for a healthy and tasty dip.


So the innards in the eggplant is what we would be targeting. Hmmm.
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I wanted to list eggplant and zucchini but when I did a little research (aka “Googling”), found out that both are considered fruits. And tomatoes are technically berries. So does that mean supermarkets have been putting those 3 in the wrong section of the Produce Department?

Sometimes the ability to fact-check takes the fun outta stuff. d'oh! Think
Gene363 Online
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Vegtables?

The PoFolks restaurant chain has some "interesting" food they call vegtables:

Quote:
Homestyle Veggies
Dinners come with two veggies

French FriesRice n’ Gravy • Cabbage • Turnip Greens • Coleslaw • Mashed Po-Taters • Fried Okra • Corn on the Cob • Red Beans n’ RiceBaked BeansMacaroni n’ Chees • Green Beans • Sliced T’maters • Baked Po-Tater • Baked Apples • Po-Tater Salad • Black-Eyed Peas
Beans * Green Beans * Baked Po-Tater * Po-Tater Salad * Mashed Po-Taters * Cheese Grits
Gene363 Online
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Palama wrote:
I wanted to list eggplant and zucchini but when I did a little research (aka “Googling”), found out that both are considered fruits. And tomatoes are technically berries. So does that mean supermarkets have been putting those 3 in the wrong section of the Produce Department?

Sometimes the ability to fact-check takes the fun outta stuff. d'oh! Think


If it's not served for dessert, it's probably considered a vegetable. Unsure
Brewha Offline
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Our local Cotton Patch restaurant has a chalk sign for the "Vegetable of the Day".

It always says "Mac & Cheese"
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RayR wrote:
Sounds like Eggplant Humus Frank. I think I'll do that.

There is always the classic Italian favorite too, Eggplant Parmesan

might wanna experiment with a small batch at a time until you get the mix you like.
Real baba ganoush is more middle east with more tahini, and I like that.
But the Romanian version didn't call for tahini, we just liked it. But sometimes just olive oil, s & P mixed in would be great if the eggplant picked up any smokiness from the grill. Used to just scoop some up with a piece of lettuce or some stretchy thin pita bread we'd get from Syrian markets.

I can enjoy eggplant parm but has to be really thinly sliced eggplant cooked to a soft consistency. Just don't like any need for chewing it...
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8trackdisco wrote:
So the innards in the eggplant is what we would be targeting. Hmmm.

well, for the snotty dip stuff, yes.
Most eggplant lovers probably slice crosswise and pan fry or deep fry for dishes like Ray mentioned, eggplant parm.

I had the moussaka at a "modern Greek" restaurant on the Cape called Estia. Went there on tailgaters recco and the eggplant in the moussaka was very soft, as the waitress promised. I believe the skin was on.

to the op, I forgot to mention the zukes and yellow/summer squashes I eat all the time. Conan reminded me.
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Palama wrote:
I wanted to list eggplant and zucchini but when I did a little research (aka “Googling”), found out that both are considered fruits. And tomatoes are technically berries. So does that mean supermarkets have been putting those 3 in the wrong section of the Produce Department?

Sometimes the ability to fact-check takes the fun outta stuff. d'oh! Think


Tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum), Peppers (Solanum capsicum), Eggplant (Solanum melongena) are all related flowering fruit-bearing species of the Solanaceae family
Other flowering Solanaceous fruit-bearing species include Tomatillos and Ground Cherries (Solanum physalis), and Potato (Solanum tuberosum} and Tobacco (Solanum nicotiana)


MACS Offline
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I had moussaka when I was in Greece. Not for or against eggplant, but I damn sure liked it.
plinytheelder Offline
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You might not be, but I'm anti-eggplant.

That sh1t is nasty.
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Zucchini
Tomato
Avocado
Onions
Beans

Yeah, I know they consider Avocado a fruit…………I dont……….and I make the rules…
Sunoverbeach Offline
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And a watermelon's actually a berry, and a strawberry is actually an aggregate fruit, not a berry

Details, shmetails
LeeBot Offline
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I saw a sign one time that said "Knowledge is knowing that tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is still not putting it in a fruit salad."
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I like bout all of em very well.

Two exceptions Brussels sprouts hate em won’t eat em
Asparagus awful
Sweet corn local grow prolly my favorite.

Green vegetables I like peas and greens the most. But I’ll happily take about anything
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I make a meal or two every once in a with with spaghetti squash
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Fried corn
Fried green beans
Fried okra
And of course dem der fried po taters mmm hmmm
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Vegetables? We live off the flesh and organs of animals like God intended. I even roll my own cigars from dried animal skins like a real man. Bunch of weak, sickly, vegetable eating pansys.

Too much for my first post in some time? Better add this for the noobs. Sarcasm

Wife and I went from years on Keto to now Ketovoire. Though she is pushing, I'm not ready for full Carnivore yet. Still enjoy;
Broccoli
Roasted or mashed Cauliflower
Roasted Brussels Sprouts
Asparagus
Chilies
Mixed leafy greens
Cabbage

Oh, and of course onions and tons of garlic.

David
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Mrs. dpnewell wrote:
Vegetables? We live off the flesh and organs of animals like God intended. I even roll my own cigars from dried animal skins like a real man. Bunch of weak, sickly, vegetable eating pansys.

Too much for my first post in some time? Better add this for the noobs. Sarcasm

Wife and I went from years on Keto to now Ketovoire. Though she is pushing, I'm not ready for full Carnivore yet. Still enjoy;
Broccoli
Roasted or mashed Cauliflower
Roasted Brussels Sprouts
Asparagus
Chilies
Mixed leafy greens
Cabbage

Oh, and of course onions and tons of garlic.

David

but it isn't a cure for Iggles Addiction, is it?

Good to see ya, bro!
Mrs. dpnewell Offline
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Hey Frank. Missed you, bro. I hope you and yours are doing well. Iggles? They squeaked one out yesterday, but since I can't get the games down here, I'm starting to lose interest in all my Philly teams and sports in general. Too many other things to spend my day doing, like running through the woods naked, while taking down my prey with my bare hands and a home made stone knife.

David
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISx3kOxo7JU
Zappa fans?


[Intro]
This is a song about vegetables, they keep ya regular
They're real good for you

[Verse 1]
Call any vegetable
Call it by name
Call one today
When you get off the train

[Chorus]
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
Aw, the vegetable will respond to you
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Whatever is freshest.

Frozen, I like broccoli florets the best.

Canned, nothing. Maybe corn, but not that creamed stuff.

I have a forgiving palette and can't really think of any vegetable that I dislike. Or it could be just a poor memory.
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Yeah, canned is deplorable. French cut green beans from the can are downright nauseating
frankj1 Offline
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do I really have to call on DMV to explain the genius that is Zappa?
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Sunoverbeach wrote:
Yeah, canned is deplorable. French cut green beans from the can are downright nauseating


Add another vote for no canned veggies. Canned tomatoes diced, sauce, and stuff like that if it's in a recipe such as chili - fine. Canned black beans, kidney beans and such also ball into that same category. Canned corn, likewise.

As tailgater said, maybe canned corn in a pinch if using it as a side dish veggie (no creamed $hit).

Fresh or frozen only please if it's a side dish. Frozen stuff of all varieties are available year round so there is little reason to go with canned stuff until there is a Zombie Apocalypse.

Then again, canned veggies if buying for food banks. Food banks typically don't have much in the way of resources to stock much (if at all) fresh or frozen stuff.
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Four tee NINE!
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