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Can we please just get real for one cotton pickin minute ?

Vegetables suck. Everyone knows it. Why pretend ?

I mean if you have a choice between nachos smothered with cheese and chile......or raw carrots. Cmon what are you going to reach for ?

Nomad;511802 wrote: Can we please just get real for one cotton pickin minute ?

Vegetables suck. Everyone knows it. Why pretend ?

I mean if you have a choice between nachos smothered with cheese and chile......or raw carrots. Cmon what are you going to reach for ?


ummm Nomie...this is the "Vegetables you love to love" thread...believe you are looking for the "Nomad's favorite junk food thread"--said with :-4

WonderWendy3;511919 wrote: ummm Nomie...this is the "Vegetables you love to love" thread...believe you are looking for the "Nomad's favorite junk food thread"--said with :-4




Vegetable rules ?

okaaaay

Preheat your oven to 425 degrees.

Take about 3 pounds of trimmed brussels sprouts and trim off any dark spots. Coarsely chop them in a food processor fitted with a slicing blade.

Toss them in a plastic bag with about half a cup of extra-virgin olive oil, a few smashed cloves of garlic, Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper.

Spread them in an even layer on two rimmed baking sheats and roast in the oven for about half an hour, until they're tender and browned in spots. (Rotate the pans and stir the sprouts about half-way through)

Sprinkle with about half a cup of freshly grated Parmesan cheese and bake just a minute more, until the cheese is melted.



(Even people who think they hate brussels sprouts love these.)

Diuretic;512198 wrote: Beer is made using barley and water and hops. Hops might not be a vegetable, they might be a fruit but I don't care. They qualifiy.



See I just like liquid vegetables.



"There's more hops in Ben Trueman!"



Works for me


ya gotta love him:wah:



with sound reasoning like that you too could have a liver like mine





i love sweede and carrots mashed together





with a jack d chaser :wah:

Potatoes in all forms - favourite is sauteed or roasted.



Leeks in a cheese sauce (sometimes make leeks and potaotes cover them in cheese and bacon sauce and have just that)



Parsnips - yum when roasted



Onions - anyway except raw



Red, green, yellow peppers - pile them on



Anything green - won't eat green food, sorry!

Imladris;512210 wrote:

Anything green - won't eat green food, sorry!


Oh, you are missing out!

Spinach...mmmmmm...my favorite!

Imladris;512210 wrote:

Leeks in a cheese sauce (sometimes make leeks and potaotes cover them in cheese and bacon sauce and have just that)




I know I'm an ignorant American buffoon, but what are leeks? :wah:

A leek is a member of the onion family, but it has a softer more subtle taste - delicious. Can't get the picture to attach but google it - it is long a white at the bottow with green leaves that you discard.



Sorry - won't get me eating spinach for love nor money - repulsive (yes I have tried it - yuck)

Imladris;512238 wrote:



Sorry - won't get me eating spinach for love nor money - repulsive (yes I have tried it - yuck)


Oh, it's delicious...in fact, I think I will stew some up now that we're talking about it. :wah:

mmmmmmm

K.Snyder;512257 wrote: Oh, it's delicious...in fact, I think I will stew some up now that we're talking about it. :wah:



mmmmmmm


:yh_sick now you're doing it on purpose aren't you!!

Imladris;512259 wrote: :yh_sick now you're doing it on purpose aren't you!!


eeehhh

50/50

I do like spinach that much. :yh_wink

My daughter rolls her eyes whenever she sees me buying leeks which I love. She knows that EVERY single time I get to the checkout, I'm gonna say to the cashier "Excuse me, this bags got a leek in it" just to watch them flapping about :sneaky:

Uncle Kram;512295 wrote: My daughter rolls her eyes whenever she sees me buying leeks which I love. She knows that EVERY single time I get to the checkout, I'm gonna say to the cashier "Excuse me, this bags got a leek in it" just to watch then flapping about :sneaky:


That's better than someone asking you, "what are you having?"

and you say "I'm having a leek.".

K.Snyder;512308 wrote: That's better than someone asking you, "what are you having?"

and you say "I'm having a leek.".
:wah:

i love fresh tomatoes during the summer....to die for



and squash , raw, stewed, fried, stir fried....any ole way.....

Because of this thread I was thinking of veggies all day yesterday, so made toad in the hole for tea and the veggies (different ones for different people) with it were - peas, carrots, runner beans, sweet potato, roast potatoes, leek and parsnip.



It was yummy and quite healthy too!

Imladris;513633 wrote: Because of this thread I was thinking of veggies all day yesterday, so made toad in the hole for tea and the veggies (different ones for different people) with it were - peas, carrots, runner beans, sweet potato, roast potatoes, leek and parsnip.



It was yummy and quite healthy too!


I've heard Pinky talk about toad in the hole...she insisted that there were no toads...but the name of it just sort of turned me off...

K.Snyder;513648 wrote: I've heard Pinky talk about toad in the hole...she insisted that there were no toads...but the name of it just sort of turned me off...


Oh yes, I make a tradional Westcountry receipe with real toads.

Imladris;513650 wrote: Oh yes, I make a tradional Westcountry receipe with real toads.

Diuretic;513665 wrote: Sausages K. it's sausages in Yorkshire pudding :wah:


Spoilsport!!:)

Imladris;513666 wrote: Spoilsport!!:)


Well, people do eat frog legs...

but I had a hard time believing anyone would eat toads...

:yh_sick

K.Snyder;513670 wrote: Well, people do eat frog legs...



but I had a hard time believing anyone would eat toads...



:yh_sick


Heeheehee



Sorry - couldn't resist:sneaky:



Toad in the hole is really nice and not toady at all!!

Imladris;513675 wrote: Heeheehee



Sorry - couldn't resist:sneaky:



Toad in the hole is really nice and not toady at all!!


I bet it's well wart it.

K.Snyder;513688 wrote: I bet it's well wart it.


Hop over sometime to try it!

Imladris;513691 wrote: Hop over sometime to try it!


I don't know, I don't know if I could take that big of a leap. I don't want to try amphibia, I usually only eat things that I am accustomed to.

Aside form the cuisine, I'm sure it would be a ribbiting experience.

Oh vegetables, I love Potatos (naturally, I'm Irish), I love cabbage, but only spring cabbage, or curly cabbage, I love sprouts, asparagus, broccolli, spinach, roast parsnips, mashed carrot and turnip with buttery spuds and garlic sausages, garden peas, green beans, cauliflower, kidney beans, chickpeas, pak choi, peppers, oh almost everything. But you should really buy fresh, and not over cook em, and serve em with something with a kick as well, if you like a bit of spice in your life.

I even wrote a poem about brussels sprouts you know, I really do like em!

Are there any other vegetables you can love to love like a cucumber?

Nice, long and thick...

I wasn't aware there were that many options. :wah:

Anyone who writes poetry about brussels sprouts is definitely a fan! (Has anyone ever read this poem?)

Pinky;516577 wrote: :wah: :wah:

If I could remember what thread it was on, I'd go and ressurect it!

It was so great!


This one?

http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/showt ... &highlight

Pinky;516586 wrote: That's the one!!! You have a good memory K!

Oh blimey, that whole thread was great fun! I think I'll have to go and read it all again now!:D


Nah...I have a terrible memory :wah:

I do have good searching skills though...:yh_bigsmi

Lulu2;512038 wrote: Preheat your oven to 425 degrees.



Take about 3 pounds of trimmed brussels sprouts and trim off any dark spots. Coarsely chop them in a food processor fitted with a slicing blade.



Toss them in a plastic bag with about half a cup of extra-virgin olive oil, a few smashed cloves of garlic, Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper.



Spread them in an even layer on two rimmed baking sheats and roast in the oven for about half an hour, until they're tender and browned in spots. (Rotate the pans and stir the sprouts about half-way through)



Sprinkle with about half a cup of freshly grated Parmesan cheese and bake just a minute more, until the cheese is melted.





(Even people who think they hate brussels sprouts love these.)


any chance of you guys making these recipes totaly moron proof some idiot has just used frozen sprouts (it dont say other wise here ) and just cooked a conjealed mess that has stunk out the whole house

I threw up the first time I tried brussels sprouts...Haven't tried them since. Don't think I will ever try them again...



Nasty little buggers! Nasty!

jimbo;517595 wrote: any chance of you guys making these recipes totaly moron proof some idiot has just used frozen sprouts (it dont say other wise here ) and just cooked a conjealed mess that has stunk out the whole house


I don't think it's the conjealed mess that's stinking out the house!!!!!!!!! :-5

Green beans, while not my favorite, I think are delicious as well...

pompom;519555 wrote: Potatoes and leeks mashed together with butter, milk, salt and white pepper.

Just thought I'd mention it as it's rather delicious :-6


I've been meaning to google leeks,..I have only heard you guys from the U.K. talk about them...

Do you eat leeks plain by themselves at all?