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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on July 02, 2009, 09:20:38 PM
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Oh my.
I say "ruin," because there's only one decent thing one can do with broccoli, making something similar with what the soil scientist made here the other weekend, when she wished to "bribe" me into allowing more research on the William Rivers Pitt.
That was great, excellent, and one can find the recipe--that broccoli, toasted bread crumbs, cheese, and sour cream thing--in one of the stories here about the William Rivers Pitt, a Jungfrau-like mound 740 cubic yards in size, of antique swine manure, a prominent landmark in the Sandhills of Nebraska.
Anyway.
Vinca (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 09:06 AM
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Broccoli Salad
I had an abundance of broccoli ready in the garden and threw a salad together. Thought it would be gross, but it was delicious. No measurements, but here are the basic ingredients which are tossed together and dressed with Marzetti slaw dressing: blanched broccoli pieces (florets and smaller stem bits)cooled, chopped walnuts, chopped onions, halved grapes, a little chopped celery and crumbled feta cheese to give it a little saltiness. We ate this for 2 days and it only got better.
ginnyinWI (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 10:00 AM
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1. Here's the one I use--
It's similar to the broccoli salad you find in the deli department:
2-3 large bunches broccoli
2-3 green onions
6 strips crisp bacon (optional: as a partial vegetarian I substitute sun-dried tomatoes)
1/2 c. raisins
1/2 c. mayonnaise
2 tsp. vinegar
2 T. sugar
Dice up the first four ingredients and mix in a bowl. Mix together the last three and pour over veggies and toss. Yum!
Nope, nope, nope.
No onions, and for God's sake, no raisins.
franksolich hasn't done raisins since franksolich was circa four years old, and an older sibling warned him raisins cause freckles. franksolich wouldn't touch a raisin with a ten-foot primitive.
Vinca (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 01:01 PM
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4. Bacon definitely crossed my mind, but I didn't have any in the house.
The empressof all (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 11:39 AM
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2. The key to my brocolli salad is a very very fine dice
I use my handy dandy chopper and dice it up--Mix it with finely diced cauliflower and green or red onion. Mix in Ranch dressing and you have crudite on a plate. My daughter would never eat brocolli or cauliflower any other way when she was young.
The warped primitive, who needs no introduction:
Warpy (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 12:14 PM
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3. You blanched the broccoli and that makes all the difference in the world.
Unblanched broccoli always has a nasty, bitter flavor that needs to be disguised by a heavy dressing or dip.
Once you do that step, just about any normal salad combination will work. Yours sounds especially good, a whole meal in a bowl.
grasswire (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 09:32 PM
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5. sounds yummy
A very nice alternative to the bacon recipe, which I also like a lot.
This makes me wonder about making up other new combinations with broccoli bits.
How about toasted pine nuts, cubed fresh mozzarella, little pasta "ears" and lemon zest-EVOO-vinegar?
How about toasted pigeon droppings?
I'll bet the primitives would insist toasted pigeon droppings are yummy.
edited to change a past tense to a present tense; sorry for the inconvenience
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 01:01 PM
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4. Bacon definitely crossed my mind, but I didn't have any in the house.
What kind of commie-pinko doesn't have bacon in the house? :loser:
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Steam until just barely tender and cover with lemon butter sauce and a bit of lemon pepper..... :-)
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6 strips crisp bacon (optional: as a partial vegetarian I substitute sun-dried tomatoes)
:nutkick:
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sounds yummy
Entirely unnecessary!
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When I use broccoli in a salad I add asparagus tips, red bell pepper, and celery. I add a Catalina Bacon dresssing available only at Kroger. It's wonderful.
You can top grilled ham slices and grilled onion slices with it and folks will think you are a gourmet.
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6 strips crisp bacon (optional: as a partial vegetarian I substitute sun-dried tomatoes)
:nutkick:
:rotf: I think that's an appropriate response.
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If you think they ruined broccoli just imagine what DUmmies of both genders do with cucumbers.
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If you think they ruined broccoli just imagine what DUmmies of both genders do with cucumbers.
Ewwwww! Gee thanks, Snuggs. I think I've come down with RobJohnson's flu bug, and it's hard enough to keep my stomach contents from becoming my attire...
I need mind bleach now...
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No onions, and for God's sake, no raisins.
franksolich hasn't done raisins since franksolich was circa four years old, and an older sibling warned him raisins cause freckles. franksolich wouldn't touch a raisin with a ten-foot primitive.
When I was a young lad, Nana used to serve me white rice, raisins and gobs of butter, drowned in raw milk. Damn it was good. I've tried it since and it just doesn't taste the same as I remember from my youth. So raisins are pretty much off the menu. Nowadays Pinot Noir is as close as I get to raisins.
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Steam until just barely tender and cover with lemon butter sauce and a bit of lemon pepper..... :-)
Mmmm, that does sound good. Here in San Jose we have The Old Spaghetti Factory. You can get a side order of broccoli, lightly seasoned with olive oil and brown butter, then sprinkled with grated Mizithra cheese.....always have it when we go there to eat.
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I hate broccoli
BTW- raisins do not cause freckles
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I hate broccoli
Me too, as far as I'm concerned the "Ruined" part came in with the word "Broccoli."
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Frank, you forgot to bold the veggies in the OP. Yummy and Delish! It might be so TASTY that the Steeley primitive might burn you at the stake for a witch!
The only way I can eat broccy (another baby talk), is so loaded up with sin, like butter and cheese and eggs in a casserole, that it negates any healthful aspects of the vegetable.
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My kids' two favorite vegetables ...since they were toddlers and eating "people" food instead of the pureed stuff in jars....were broccoli and asparagas. They would also eat zucchini and squash.
Trying to get them to eat a cooked carrot was right up there with impossible. They would tolerate corn or green beans provided they had lots of butter on them. Green peas....didn't even bother to buy them, yet they would eat pea pods.
As adults.....peas are still a "dirty" word.
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When I make ramen, I cut up pieces of broccy very small, and toss them in along with the noodlies. The broccy comes out tender and yummy for ur tummy, but not overcooked. I've also been known to throw frozen spinach, shrimp, bay scallops, and a few red pepper flakes into my oodles of noodles.
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LOL, Crock! Debk, everybody knows that peas are evil. Spawns of the devil. As a kid, I had ingenious ways of making them disappear. Later on, my mother would tell my dates these tales. A mother can get her revenge.....
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You know what I hated??
Malt-O-Meal Corn Mush..... for a few months it was a daily breakfast