Eating Veg

[woodelf]

How do you make vegetables appetising to eat, what recipes and/or recipe books can ABers recommend?...After all, we're told they're good for us, even if they taste..... Ta Muchly.

[tonyav]

I have no idea how you managed that, Daisy. Did you have a fad on sprouts when pregnant ?.

[DaisyNonna]

No Tony, avocados!

[Chipchopper]

I find most veg a little bland, to get around this, I crumble an vegetable oxo in with it and it tastes soooo much better.
No need to season afterwards either.

[DaisyNonna]

Dislike carrots and seer potato
Key word sweet

[tonyav]

DaisyNonna
No Tony, avocados!


Expensive tastes, Daisy.

[Tilly2]

In the sprout advert thing, no one mentions that the sprout will get eaten. Very deceiving, in my opinion. Poor little sprout!

[tonyav]

He may not though, Yilly. Maybe he will be adopted by a non sprout eating family, hard to find at Christmas time though.

[DaisyNonna]

No Tony, Bradford market and then South Africa
Expensive now

[tonyav]

Ah righto then, Daisy. There is a lot of stone in them though.

[jourdain2]

I really try to love veg.. I pour over cookery books and cook them in every imaginable way - still the only veg. I really like is asparagus! Onions are the other 'must'. Doggedness makes me serve them - that and the fact that Mr. J2 loves spuds (I very nearly hate them now). I force-fed (for their health) my kids with veg. and they eat them happily.

I eat lots of fruit and seem to be healthy. (Age 66 - it has to go downhill from here.)

[tonyav]

Think positive, jourdain. After all eating plenty of fruit as worked so far.

[Togo]

Broccoli done very gently so that it has a bite left to it. Red onions diced and suateed in good olive oil until soft, seasoned, and a thimble full of balsamic vinegar with a spoonful of the broccoli water to make a reduction. Pour onto the broccoli, and have a cold peroni lager or a crisp glass of white wine. Infinitely better on a hot summers day overlooking St Ives Porthmeister beach. Ahhh

[Jackdaw33]

Fresh sprouts are nice, frozen ones are foul. Sometimes I get a craving for a whole boiled onion covered with butter, salt and pepper, accompanied by bread and butter.

[Mamyalynne]

One of my favourites too Jackdaw.


You've had plenty tips Woodelf and I echo lots of them, veg roasted really adds flavour.

The soups I am always asked to repeat are - Cauliflower and white Stilton - Golden pea and ham and Roasted red pepper and tomato.

Experiment - Mamya - (wave) x