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Least favorite vegetables?

Least favorite vegetables?

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radcen said:
I hate when people say things like, "Mashed cauliflower tastes just like mashed potatoes."

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No. It. Doesn't.
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I try to hide vegetables in places my kids won't think to eat them. I tried mashed cauliflower once, and it didn't turn out so well. I think I did it wrong. They tasted fantastic - honestly, they were delicious, and had the consistency worked in my favor, they would have tasted like mashed potatoes. But the consistency is what got me. The consistency was grainy. I tried to pass them off as potatoes, and it didn't work. *sigh*
 
Superfly said:
I like brussel sprouts, but there are ways to cook them to make them more palatable. I parboil them for a couple of seconds, and then drain and fry them in bacon grease. Add a couple of slices of crumbled up bacon along with that, and they are great. For a little extra added flavor, sprinkle a smidgen of parmesan cheese on top of them. The bacon and parmesan gives them a whole other level of flavor, and frying them makes the leaves a little crispy. Yum.
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With brussel sprouts the only way I can eat them is to grill them or bake them- what I do is cut them in half and then sprinkle with salt and drizzle with extra virgin olive oil, if I got a grill going I just pop 'em in there till they char a bit or bake them at high heat till they char. Simple. ;)
 
Superfly said:
I like brussel sprouts, but there are ways to cook them to make them more palatable. I parboil them for a couple of seconds, and then drain and fry them in bacon grease. Add a couple of slices of crumbled up bacon along with that, and they are great. For a little extra added flavor, sprinkle a smidgen of parmesan cheese on top of them. The bacon and parmesan gives them a whole other level of flavor, and frying them makes the leaves a little crispy. Yum.
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I might even like them then. :lol:
 
I hate any veggie that's been overcooked. Otherwise I've yet to find a vegetable that I don't like.

Even beets. Roasted beets are delicious. Though the next morning you may think you're hemorrhaging to death.
 
Rainman05 said:
Caulliflower and brussels sprouts.

With caulliflower, you can't find any good recipes and the brussel sprouts... well, I only ate them twice in my life at 2 separate occasions and hated them both. Bleah. Pretentious snobs pretend to like them in my opinion. But I am open to a 3rd and final try and hope I'm proven wrong coz I wanna be a pretentious snob at some point in my life from a gastronomical perspective. At least for a while. So I can look in the face of other people who aren't pretentious snobs and pretend I am better than them.
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Cut cauliflower into small pieces, drizzle some oil on them and mix them up to coat. Season with salt to taste. Put them on a cookie sheet and roast them at high heat (350+) until browned.

Boil whole brussell sprouts for about 5-7 minutes to cook the outside, but not all the way through. Cut each one in half. Cook some bacon in a fry pan and remove the bacon and crumble. Drain fat leaving a tbs or two and throw in a diced onion and salt. Cook on med-low heat until browned and turn heat up and throw in some chopped garlic. Cook garlic for just a few seconds and throw in halved brussel sprouts , cut side down and add some more salt. Let them brown a bit, then throw in the crumbled bacon and mix them up a bit. Let it cook for another minute and serve

Properly prepared, I like every vegetable
 
PoS said:
With brussel sprouts the only way I can eat them is to grill them or bake them- what I do is cut them in half and then sprinkle with salt and drizzle with extra virgin olive oil, if I got a grill going I just pop 'em in there till they char a bit or bake them at high heat till they char. Simple. ;)
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I've not tried them that way. Will have to try them on the grill! Thanks!
 
PoS said:
With brussel sprouts the only way I can eat them is to grill them or bake them- what I do is cut them in half and then sprinkle with salt and drizzle with extra virgin olive oil, if I got a grill going I just pop 'em in there till they char a bit or bake them at high heat till they char. Simple. ;)
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Me too. I'll saute them as well and sometimes finish them with a little fresh squeezed lemon juice
 
I love all vegetables ...in fact my diet is largely vegetarian with occasional bird and fish.
However my least favorite vegetable is cauliflower.
If it is put before me I will eat it, but I will not seek it out.
 
Van Basten said:
Deep fried Okra is great, the only kind of Okra that's good.
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You deep fry anything and have a ranch or bleu cheese dipping sauce and it will be great no matter what it is. :2razz:
 
I like most veggies, except brussel sprouts and beets. My favorites are these new, microwave 'steam in the bag' versions, like California Mix. They're as good or better than most steam cooked fresh versions.
 
All the vegetables I used to hate as a kid I now find delicious, if they're prepared properly. Funny how that changes...
 
radcen said:
Least favorite vegetables? The ones you do NOT like.
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Broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, cabbage, collard greens, kale, kohlrabi, mustard, rutabaga, turnips etc. I cannot stand cruciferous vegetables. They're gross! Just the smell of them makes me nauseous.

The only cruciferous vegetables I can eat are radishes.
 
I have not found a vegetable I do not like. However, certain preparations of them I abhor, cooked carrots comes to mind.
 
radcen said:
I might even like them then. :lol:
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If all you can taste is bacon they would be good. Kinda like broccoli smothered with cheese. I could eat that as long as I can't taste the broccoli.

But then, if something tastes very foul to you before the taste is covered up you probably shouldn't eat it. If something tastes awful to you, that's your body telling you not to eat it. You should listen to what your body is telling you.
 
nota bene said:
Of course, they won't touch tomatoes either (and, yes, I know the tomato is a fruit, but I still think of it as a veggie) and think I'm the weirdo.
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Fruit and vegetable are not mutually exclusive terms. Actually a vegetable is any edible part of a plant. The fruit of the tomato plant is edible and therefore a vegetable.
 
Muhammed said:
If all you can taste is bacon they would be good. Kinda like broccoli smothered with cheese. I could eat that as long as I can't taste the broccoli.

But then, if something tastes very foul to you before the taste is covered up you probably shouldn't eat it. If something tastes awful to you, that's your body telling you not to eat it. You should listen to what your body is telling you.
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That's actually how I started to like broccoli... w/cheese.
 
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