Post here: Favorite Vegetable

[LynneSin]

I can't get enough of Spinach or Asparagus

What's your favorite veggie?

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Roasted brussies!

[NYC_SKP]

2. "Let's Go With Sarah Palin!"

[LynneSin]

3. Oh come off it - that's just insultive

you know your average veggie has more smarts & common sense than Sarah Palin.

[NYC_SKP]

14. True, guilty, I have asparagus on the vegetable group.

I think I fucked that up but who cares....

[LiberalAndProud]

4. Fresh green beans.

I will eat them frozen or from a can, but fresh is the best with butter and salt.

[LynneSin]

44. Green Beans from a can is nasty

Always too much salt and the beans always seem mushy

Yuckies

[LiberalAndProud]

46. What can I say?

Mushy green beans I can eat (I didn't say favorite). Mushy peas from a can? Now those are Yuckies mushy mess.

[GoCubsGo]

5. Artichokes.

Love, love, love 'em.

I also love asparagus and cauliflower.

[geardaddy]

6. Peas.

Spinach and asparagus are a close second though.

[Liberal Veteran]

7. Ketchup.

j/k....It is actually potato.

[Chan790]

8. Aubergine

[geardaddy]

51. Yum.

Ate tons of this in Taiwan:
Garlic stewed aubergine

[ohiosmith]

9. Cucumber, olives and onions.

[Wait Wut]

43. Ooooh...Hendrick's.

Good stuff. Although, I prefer gin with a more intense flavor. I like Bluecoat, right now. Hold the veggies, just ice, please.

[dr.strangelove]

10. Asparagus on the grill

little EVOO and some ground pepper, awesome.

[LiberalEsto]

11. It's a tie - broccoli and asparagus

although there is a lot to be said for tender young lettuce freshly picked from the garden.

[RebelOne]

18. Broccoli and asparagus are my favorites. n/t

[Enrique]

12. corn ftw n/t

[Brother Buzz]

13. Eggplant

That is, if it's done right

[woodsprite]

21. First (and only) time I tried fixing it, it turned out bitter.

I like it if it's in something I get at a restaurant, but I haven't revisited fixing it again on my own.

[Brother Buzz]

25. Fresh ones aren't bitter

I always enjoy the first eggplants of the season from the farmers market, they're fresh. Mine, out of the garden always ripen later, but they're fresh, and never bitter either.

[JoeyT]

30. What I was taught to do,

and what I've always done was sliced it thinly (1/4th to 1/2 inches thick) and salted the bejeezus out of it, then let it sit and drain. It won't actually take in much of the salt at all, but it will sit there and damn near pour brownish liquid that tastes vaguely like wet tobacco. Supposedly when it stops seeping, it isn't bitter anymore. Then you rinse it off with water and cook it however you want.

[fleur-de-lisa]

15. Can't decide on one . . .

spinach, broccoli, and asparagus!

[pipi_k]

16. Butternut squash

cooked till tender, smashed up and swimming in butter

[Flaxbee]

17. Tough call. Can't decide. Spinach, asparagus, broccoli, eggplant, sweet potatoes, avocado,

most squash(es)...

I also like bok choy and all kinds of lettuces.

I have always, even as a kid, liked broccoli and asparagus. Thrilled my mother. But my love for veggies developed much more as I got into my 20s.

[woodsprite]

20. Zucchini and onions (together, w/ a bit of parm cheese and black pepper) n/t

[OriginalGeek]

24. Mmmmm yes

My wife will slice those up along with some yellow squash and throw it all in the steamer. I love that. Salt and pepper and a little butter. I'll have to try it with parmesan though - sounds good!

[Xyzse]

22. Brocolli...

Ok, brocolli, lightly cooked, maybe a touch of butter and garlic.

Baby carrots, peeled somewhat with the leafy parts still stuck to it, boiled quickly in a butter sauce.

Green Beans, with ginger, garlic and broth, and again a bit of butter.

[OriginalGeek]

23. I love both spinach and asparagus

when prepared right - I've had both when they were kinda yuck. But with the asparagus I suspect it was less the way it was cooked and more that they didn't cut off enough of the stalk so I got some nasty fibrous ends. If they'd just bend the stalks they would break at the right spot.

For most of my youth the only veggies I would eat at all were corn and potatoes. And now that doesn't even count!

I'll try most anything now though. Except broccoli. Fuck broccoli.

[KegCreekDem]

26. Kohlrabi sliced and

dipped in real buttermilk ranch dressing. Yum.

[femmocrat]

27. All of them. (Except okra!)

Probably asparagus for my fave, though.

[BlueJazz]

28. Lieutenant Broccoli

[JoeyT]

29. Broccoli

with mustard coming in a close second.

So glad it's finally the right season for them.

[hedgehog]

31. Potatoes - although to hear some peole talk these days, potatoes are

more a dessert than a vegetable!

[harmonicon]

32. Do onions count?

It took my awhile to think of that answer... but of all vegetables (if root vegetables count), I think that's the one I'd miss the most if I had to do without it.

I also love asparagus though, along with lots of others.

[kwassa]

33. Vine-ripened tomatos. In season.

food of the gods.

[sharp_stick]

48. This is my daughter

at 5 we started to plant an extra tomato plant every year for her to snack on.

Now with two more tomato addicts (7, 5 & 2 all together) we've had to plant two extra plants (usually grape or cherry) that they are allowed to pick from. As long as they don't go after my wife's sauce tomato plants they are welcome to all they can eat.

[Adsos Letter]

34. Peas, with butter and salt.

[Chellee]

35. kale and butternut squash

n/t

[Populist_Prole]

37. Squash / Zucchini

Sauteed, grilled or steamed.

[In_The_Wind]

38. sweet potatoes

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[hobbit709]

39. Garlic

[pink-o]

40. Do beans count?

I love broccoli to distraction, but I couldn't eat a salad without garbanzo and kidney beans. Black beans, lima beans, navy beans, et al. Love 'em.

And if you include coffee beans and cacao beans, that raises the humble legumes to perfection!

(PS: Okay, bring on the fart jokes! I rarely overindulge, but a good run on an isolated trail takes care of any problems )

[lumpy]

55. I vote for the venerable bean.

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[blueamy66]

41. Too, too many to list!

Brussels sprouts, asparagus, corn on the cob, carrots, green beans, eggplant, tomatoes, portabello mushrooms, squash....and the list goes on!!!!!

On edit: forgot cabbage and spinach!!!!

Edit # 2: found bok choy and sweet potatoes

[Wait Wut]

42. Yep, spinach and asparagus.

I get cravings for both. Damn. Now I want asparagus.

[Odin2005]

45. Brussels sprouts!

[sharp_stick]

47. Rapini

I picked it up by accident at the store once. I had to look up how to make it on the internet and now everyone at home likes it.

[Arkansas Granny]

49. Oh, that's a tough one to answer. I'd have to choose broccoli or zucchini.

I really can't think of a veggie that I don't like.

[swimboy]

50. Asparagus

Flame on! (50)

[ellisonz]

52. Beets.

[Avalux]

53. I have lots, but roasted cauliflower is my fave at the moment.

Delicious with veggie quesadillas!

[TwilightGardener]

54. Asparagus. I don't think I've ever truly had enough

asparagus at a meal. Everyone else in my family loves it too, so we are relegated to a few spears each. I'd buy more if it wasn't so expensive. After that, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, potatoes, broccoli, corn on the cob. Not a huge fan of green beans, peas, carrots.

[LynneSin]

58. I'd eat the stuff everyday if it wasn't for the smell

I'm one of the 25% that get the smelly pee

[TwilightGardener]

59. Only 25% get the smelly pee? I thought that was

the universal downside of asparagus. Next you'll tell me that only 25% of broccoli eaters get gas.

[LynneSin]

60. one study says 22% and the other says 50%

http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/why-pee-smells-funny-eat-asparagus

Depending on which study you read, between 22% and 50% of the population report having pungent pee after eating asparagus. But that doesn't mean only some people's bodies generate that smell. Researchers believe that, during digestion, the vegetable's sulfurous amino acids break down into smelly chemical components in all people. And because those components are "volatile," meaning airborne, the odor wafts upward as the urine leaves the body and can be detected as soon as 15 minutes after you eat this spring delicacy.

[TrogL]

56. yellow beans

Firms my poop up.

[Incitatus]

57. Garlic

on a chunk of cow