What Is Your Favorite Vegetable?

[njpines]

Good grief Rose why not ?????

Summer is when the beef steak tomatoes first arrive and oh the glory of a sandwitch of tomatoes, mayo, salt and pepper.

Some people put sugar on tomatoes but I use salt.  A Filipino friend taught me that for some reason putting salt on fruit brings out the natural sweetness much better then sugar.

There's nothing better (IMO) than a tomato sandwich with mayo and salt when the tomato is still warm from being picked from the yard -- and I HATED tomatoes as a kid! Drove my parents nuts!

Salt is also what I use to sweat out the bitterness from eggplant slices before cooking.  Salt the slices and let them sit for an hour (or so) and then rinse.

[debk]

There's nothing better (IMO) than a tomato sandwich with mayo and salt when the tomato is still warm from being picked from the yard -- and I HATED tomatoes as a kid! Drove my parents nuts!

Salt is also what I use to sweat out the bitterness from eggplant slices before cooking.  Salt the slices and let them sit for an hour (or so) and then rinse.

I remember, as a kid, going into my mother's garden with her. She would have a salt shaker, and pick the ripe tomatoes off of the vine and we'd sit in the grass, sprinkle them with salt and eat them.

Thanks, Sue for the really neat memory....it was one of those "hiding" back in the deep gray matter...you mentioning the tomatoe still warm and parent right together brought it out...

[thundley4]

I remember, as a kid, going into my mother's garden with her. She would have a salt shaker, and pick the ripe tomatoes off of the vine and we'd sit in the grass, sprinkle them with salt and eat them.

Thanks, Sue for the really neat memory....it was one of those "hiding" back in the deep gray matter...you mentioning the tomatoe still warm and parent right together brought it out...

That is one of the best ways to enjoy a tomato, fresh off the vine and still warm from the sun.

[njpines]

I remember, as a kid, going into my mother's garden with her. She would have a salt shaker, and pick the ripe tomatoes off of the vine and we'd sit in the grass, sprinkle them with salt and eat them.

Thanks, Sue for the really neat memory....it was one of those "hiding" back in the deep gray matter...you mentioning the tomatoe still warm and parent right together brought it out...

  backatcha, Deb.  I come across alot of old memories like that when I'm canning stuff during the summer since my mom was the one who taught me how to do it. We spent many hot summer days putting away vegetables and fruit.  Both she and my dad graduated HS during the Depression and nothing, especially not food, ever went to waste!

[TJ]

Roasted Brussels Sprouts drizzled with Balsamic Vinegar.  So Good!  I also like snap peas quite a bit. But honestly, I like most vegetables.

Fresh Brussel sprouts rock!  I'm trying again to grow them but they are tough.  My favorite is Asparagus, both because of the taste and that it's the first thing we get out of our garden in the spring.

[cavegal]

Folks........ for the record, tomatoes are fruits!!!

I like broccoli, but it has to be raw or maybe lightly steamed.

Vesta..... no wonder you have physical problems. Potatoes can aggravate arthritis, among other ailments. I am constantly reminded by Inga that they are a member of the nightshade family. It's not good to ingest so many potatoes.

What is this "nightshade" family?  I have arthritis...

[littlelamb]

Any veggies are good except mushrooms and they don't like me another huge huge allergy with them

[vesta111]

Fresh Brussel sprouts rock!  I'm trying again to grow them but they are tough.  My favorite is Asparagus, both because of the taste and that it's the first thing we get out of our garden in the spring.

I planted those Brissel Sprouts one year and was amazed at how they grew up the stem of the plant.   Reminded me of Barnacles growing on pier posts in the river.

Wild growing field Asparagus is another favorite of mine.These came about when farms sold off their fields and the Asparagus had gone to seed.

If the land was left wild and UN mowed, these plants would grow to be huge--almost 3 foot tall and taste like cardboard.   The idea was to get them in the spring when they were less then a foot tall.

No one has mentioned the Fiddle Heads that come from the forest.  These delights are the new not yet opened leaves of the fern plants that grow in the North Western States.   Some States allow people to pick these baby's in season in state parks and they must get allot as they turn up each spring in the grocery stores in New Hampshire.

Come to think of it, they may grow here but so far I have not heard of local picked.

[crockspot]

What is this "nightshade" family?  I have arthritis...

Tomatoes and Eggplant are both nightshades.

[crockspot]

I planted those Brissel Sprouts one year and was amazed at how they grew up the stem of the plant.   Reminded me of Barnacles growing on pier posts in the river.

Wild growing field Asparagus is another favorite of mine.These came about when farms sold off their fields and the Asparagus had gone to seed.

If the land was left wild and UN mowed, these plants would grow to be huge--almost 3 foot tall and taste like cardboard.   The idea was to get them in the spring when they were less then a foot tall.

No one has mentioned the Fiddle Heads that come from the forest.  These delights are the new not yet opened leaves of the fern plants that grow in the North Western States.   Some States allow people to pick these baby's in season in state parks and they must get allot as they turn up each spring in the grocery stores in New Hampshire.

Come to think of it, they may grow here but so far I have not heard of local picked.

I seem to recall the little girl in Stephen King's "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" eating fiddleheads while she was lost in the Maine woods, so they probably do grow in New England.

I like broccoli, asparagus, zucchini, and tomatoes the most. But the only vegetable I really can't stand is okra.

[vesta111]

Tomatoes and Eggplant are both nightshades.

Ah the deadly nightshade a good old murder weapon used by Agathe Cristie to finish off an elderly relative with a heart problem.

Now Poke Salad in the south is really great, in TN. the people put scrambled eggs in it.    But I believe the Berry's are poison's.

It was said way back when that if a bird would not eat a berry, then you don't either.   


Then what is that Castor Bean that is used for arts and crafts that if dried and ground up makes a deadly concoction.

How can we forget tobacco and how deadly that can be if ingested in high doses.