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No, really - what's your favorite vegetable and why?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Olives. Are olives vegetables? I love olives. With warm Italian bread. And oil. Reminds me of good times in NYC.
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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.
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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.
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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. Posts: 4077 | Registered: Jun 2003
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?).
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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.
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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?
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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.
quote: I think of tomatos as vegetables too, even though they're a fruit.
According to my 7-year-old sister, a tomato is "a fruit in a book, but a vegetable in your mouth."
My favorite would have to be fresh green beans. Or Chinese string beans. Nope - actually, peas out of the garden. Mmm....boy!
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