What is your favourite vegetable!

[oscarina]

I love most vegetables but broad beans are tops especially from the pod but frozen
ones just as good! What veggies do you enjoy and try to make enjoyable especially for the kids

[ttfn]

Good lad mike - nice to know there is some refinement around here after all

[oscarina]

I have tried to cook asparagus but can't seem to get it right always too stringy, but when the TV Chefs cook it. it always looks delicious!

[Mr Veritas]

ummmm,
That sounds delicious.
Elsie says would you like a job as our live~in cook? LOL

[ummmm]

You have to snap it oscarina. It's only the ends that are stringy. Hold it just below the tip and at the end and bend. It will naturally snap by the toughest point.

[ttfn]

Always get the freshest you can oscarina. Trim from the bottom of the spear with a very sharp knife a litlle bit at a time until you can cut through it with virtually no resistance. We used to use an old coffee pot on the stove and cook the spears in the upright position, but these days I cook them horizontally in a good thick bottomed pan. Usually takes just a few minutes when they are a really fresh supply.

[oscarina]

ummmm!
Thanks for that asparagus tip!!

[ummmm]

I would love to Mr V.....

[boxtops]

The old lady who lived next door a few years back had what WAS an asparagus bed - each year the things just grew and grew, the ferny bush was about ten feet high - and as you say, spread sideways....

[wiggal]

I love most veg I think!
Not a fan of raw celery, and parsnips I like sometimes and not others. Anything else I love! :-)

[Craftypig]

Roast parsnips....

[masterchef]

Asparagus steamed in the microwave is lovely, the thicker stems just need 5 minutes but the finer stems can be done in three minutes.
Roast beetroot is very good but it does take longer than other vegetables to roast.It is also a good addition to vegetable soup for a change.
I can't think of any vegetable that I don't like.

[GSDfan22]

I don't like broad beans or parsnips.

[boxtops]

Memory is a strange thing, some 40 years ago I was on medication where I couldn't eat broad beans (amongst other things), and although I used to eat them when I was a child, I haven't ever taken to them very much since. Green beans now, French beans, yum!