No, really - what's your favorite vegetable and why?
For example:
I love lima beans. I like the taste and the texture, but mostly because of the warm feeling I get remembering that my mom and I were united in our liking of the tasty buggers.
I also adore cauliflower with melted cheese. That was my special birthday vegetable.
Posted by Katarain (Member # 6659) on :
Eeeewwww!!! Lima Beans? Cauliflower???
I don't have a favorite. I like green beans, corn, and broccoli the best of all of them, I think.
I have lots of least favorites. My mom used to put soy sauce on lima beans. Ick.
-Katarain
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
I love peas. I like the juicy way they burst open when I bite into them. I like them hot with Newman's Own Balsamic Vinaigrette. I like them cold in seven layer salad. I love the smooth, pasty texture of split pea soup. I love peas.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Does corn count as a vegetable? Cor swears it does not.
If it doesn't, then I'll go with broccoli (sp?). I love the way it tastes when steamed, and I love to dump some grated parmesan on it when it's still relatively hot.
Posted by WishfulWiggin (Member # 6823) on :
I was going to say Corn (on the cob with lots of butter), but if it dosnt count I guess I'll have to say asparagus.
And broccoli is my worst. I've had some bad experiances....
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
I love okra. I like the crunchy little pieces when fried. I love the slimey texture when boiled. I like the bitter taste of the large round seeds.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
ew! Nasty slimy OKRA! I like corn and soft canned baby peas.
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
Jalapeños! Don't know why.
Posted by Defenestraitor (Member # 6907) on :
Olives. Are olives vegetables? I love olives. With warm Italian bread. And oil. Reminds me of good times in NYC.
Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
Onions - sauteed, stuffed, in soup, in pasta.... onions go well in just about anything
If onions don't count, then spinach - I love the green and all the vitamins and the taste.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Mmmmm Mushrooms!
I like all kinds - the big field ones grilled with garlic. Button mushrooms in pasta sauces. Shitake mushrooms in mushroom soup. Enoki mushrooms in stir fry. Porcini mushrooms with shaved parmesan.
Mmmmm*mm*
Posted by Jeni (Member # 1454) on :
There is nothing that beats kohlrabi straight from the garden with some salt.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
I like corn.
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
artichoke. because they are good.
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
My favorite vegetable is frozen. Wait, does Walt Disney count?
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
My favorite vegetable would have to be the potato. I love it because it is one of the most versatile foods. I can eat it baked, mashed, broiled or fried. If baked, it can be garnished in a million ways. If mashed it can be lumpy or smooth, garlic'd, or buttered and each tiny change makes it an almost completely different dish. If broiled, it can be sprinkled with onion soup mix or brushed with olive oil. If fried it can be thin or thick cut french fries, potato chips, potato cakes, or even hash browns. You can serve it cold in delicious potato salad, or piping hot in a hundred different ways.
The potato can be eaten for breakfast, lunch or dinner or even all three without even noticing you've eaten it for three meals if you change the method of preparing it.
And if you're not hungry, you can use a potato to make a quick "rubber stamp" for art or crafts. You can shoot it from a potato gun or even a potato cannon. You can stick tooth-picks in the side, suspend it in a glass of water, and grow a potato vine in your kitchen window.
Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :
Spinach
because it makes Popeye strong. Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Is the potato a vegetable?
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
I gotta agree with Ben. The artichoke is wonderful. To me, it's one of the few foods that tastes like it should be bad for you, but really isn't.
A close second for me, though, is the cucumber--clean, crisp taste. It's like giving my mouth a shower. Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
quote: Is the potato a vegetable?
Well, it's not an animal or a mineral.
quote: veg·e·ta·ble ( P ) Pronunciation Key (vjt-bl, vj-t-) n.
A plant cultivated for an edible part, such as the root of the beet, the leaf of spinach, or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower.
The edible part of such a plant.
A member of the vegetable kingdom; a plant.
Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :
Spinach... so versatile. Onions are a close second.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
My favorite foods are fruits and vegetables (fruits more than vegetables though). My favorite would probably be asparagus these days, with kale as a close second. KarlEd's right about the potato's versatility though. If I had to choose one vegetable alone to be able to eat, it would probably be one potato or another. Sweet potato, probably, for its nutritional value.
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
Mine is brussels sprouts, but we've already had a discussion about that.
I also like asparagus, cauliflower and sweet corn on the cob (which does too count) a lot.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Even though corn is technically a grain, it falls into the class of things that seem like a vegetable, especially when it's eaten on the cob. I think of tomatos as vegetables too, even though they're a fruit.
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
It's a tie between the potato and the cucumber. The potato is just the perfect food, for reasons already given.
The cucumber is the more traditional vegetable and it is wet and tastes good, but not too strong, and is just generally great.
Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :
I've never met a vegetable I didn't like (well, lima beans and eggplant come close), but my favorites are fresh peas from the garden, tomatoes, brocolli, fresh green beans, and carrots. Red potatoes are absolutely to die for, and I could eat any kind of potato as its own meal. There are a lot of vegetables that, when they are good, are very, very good, but when they are bad, they are horrid. These include spinach, asparagus, onion, green pepper, and cauliflower.
Vegetables taste so rich, crisp, sweet, and interesting. I think they're my favorite food group.
[ October 08, 2004, 11:21 AM: Message edited by: Brinestone ]
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I don't have a favourite vegetable, but I have ones I am pleased to see: Asparagus, spinach, cooked tomatoes, corn (I'm counting corn and tomatoes as vegetables, even though they may or may not be), artichokes...
And what are those things that are like marrows but smaller. They are long and grow onthe ground like a pumpkin and they are delicious when fried and I cannot for the life of me remember their name!
And another thing I love but cannot remember the name of (this is terrible) are those things that taste like carrots but have the texture of potatoes.
Posted by dread pirate romany (Member # 6869) on :
I love mushrooms, Stuffed, on pizza, in stir fry, in soups or stews, on crispy crostini.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I love okra. It's one of my biggest comfort foods, but only when it's fried.
Posted by CStroman (Member # 6872) on :
Although I never cared for lima beans, I was fascinated by my experiences with them in Central America. I got to see them growing, which was cool. I was served a lima bean soup, so I got to see how they are prepared down there. First, they allow them to grow longer, so they are bigger and tougher. They don't shell/peel them -- they just snip a bit of the shell off before cooking. I still wasn't crazy about them, but it was pretty interesting.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Oh, yeah, I forgot about pickled okra. That's good too.
Posted by CStroman (Member # 6872) on :
UofUguy.
Black Beans Baby!
Frijoles Fritos Frijoles Liquado Frijoles Enrollado Frijoles in any way shapr or form possible...
Did you ever have Sanpopos de Mayo?
Posted by lem (Member # 6914) on :
quote: Onions - sauteed, stuffed, in soup, in pasta.... onions go well in just about anything
If onions don't count, then spinach - I love the green and all the vitamins and the taste
You took the words out of my mouth Ludosti. I also am a big fan of Bannana squash. There is something about it that just *completes* keesh (spelling?).
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
quote:Frijoles in any way shape or form possible
Just remember to crack open a window.
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
Yeah, CStroman, I definitely remember the black beans. They were possibly the best thing about Guatemalan cuisine, which is a good thing since they were also the most common thing in Guatemalan cuisine.
I thought frijoles licuados were okay, but only if you had a lot of pan frances to mop them up.
My favorites were, I think, called frijoles volteados, which were really just what we would call refried. They were good with anything. The best was frijoles volteados with fried platanos. Yum!
In Honduras, I liked them with flour tortillas with crema/mantequilla (in which form they're called valeadas), but I don't remember ever getting flour tortillas in Guatemala.
And no, I don't believe I ever had Sanpopos de Mayo. I have no idea what that is.
[ October 08, 2004, 01:24 PM: Message edited by: UofUlawguy ]
Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
Yes, spinach in quiche (I think it's a french word, which explains why it is spelled so weirdly) is wonderful!!
I can't believe I forgot mushrooms!!! They are so varied and so versatile!
And you know - onions and spinach and mushrooms all go really well together! Mmmmmmm *drools*
[ October 08, 2004, 01:29 PM: Message edited by: ludosti ]
Posted by CStroman (Member # 6872) on :
Sanpopos de Mayo are "May Ants". The large ants that the indigenous people would capture and fry up and eat. They were big ants. I never had them or Iguana (which are eaten as well) but knew Missionaries who had.
Ahhh platanos. Ever have the red bananas?
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
I always kind of wanted to try iguana, but never got the chance. Of course, not being a vegetable, it doesn't have a place in this thread.
Never had ants. Also not a vegetable.
I did have the red bananas, and thought they were nothing special. Nor were the small, fat bananas that they called manzanos. (Not to be confused, of course, with manzanas.) I basically just like the normal bananas (guineos) and the platanos, either fried or boiled, but preferably fried.
[ October 08, 2004, 01:41 PM: Message edited by: UofUlawguy ]
Posted by Robespierre (Member # 5779) on :
Lettuce is a Veg Leafy juicy and crispy Lettuce have it now
Posted by CStroman (Member # 6872) on :
I do love a good salad. I should eat more of them because they are healthy.
Posted by Zalmoxis (Member # 2327) on :
I'm with KarlEd on the virtues and joys of the potato.
But eggplant is a close second.
Posted by CStroman (Member # 6872) on :
Oh and my favorite "vegetable" is this kid named.....
Nevermind, that's not kosher.
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
Carrots. Raw or cooked, I love them. With no dressing or anything. Just the carrots.
Posted by Danzig avoiding landmarks (Member # 6792) on :
I must protest the labeling of mushrooms as a vegetable. They are not even plants!
My favorite vegetable... green beans, probably.
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
Amen, Danzig.
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
Even though I have never consciously eaten one, my favorite vegetable is cumquat.
It just makes me feel dirty for thinking it, let alone saying it. Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
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