Turns out I don’t actually dislike vegetables, I just dislike how my mother’s and grandmother make them. Did you know they can be served with colour still on them?
This was me with soup. My mom would use all the dregs of whatever she had around to make “soup,” and it was disgusting. Real soup made with the good parts of fresh ingredients is amazing, and I didn’t even know until I was in my mid-20’s!
I’ve made delicious strawberry ice cream. One way to get the strawberry flavor in there is to steep the milk/batter with berries and let the berry juice seep out of the berry. Fun fact! If you do this, you get white ghost berries so strain them out. If you want berry chunks, add new berries afters.
This is the important part. Modern Brussels sprouts are NOT your grandma’s sprouts from the 1990s or earlier. From wikipedia :
In the 1990s, the Dutch scientist Hans van Doorn identified the chemicals that make Brussels sprouts bitter: sinigrin and progoitrin.[11] This enabled Dutch seed companies to cross-breed archived low-bitterness varieties with modern high-yield varieties
Do you mean to tell me vegetables can be cooked some other way besides boiling? And you can put seasoning on them?!? My grandfather would be disgusted by the thought.
I got fucking microwave steamed frozen veggies with no seasoning at all not even butter and if I didn’t eat the freezer burnt slop I wasn’t allowed to leave the table.
I get the microwaved steamed veggies now. But I at least toss them in some olive oil or butter and season them. Usually I’ll microwave them halfway to thaw them then fry them in some oil to get a nicer char. Not gourmet, but perfectly fine.
Turns out I don’t actually dislike vegetables, I just dislike how my mother’s and grandmother make them. Did you know they can be served with colour still on them?
This was me with soup. My mom would use all the dregs of whatever she had around to make “soup,” and it was disgusting. Real soup made with the good parts of fresh ingredients is amazing, and I didn’t even know until I was in my mid-20’s!
I’ve made delicious strawberry ice cream. One way to get the strawberry flavor in there is to steep the milk/batter with berries and let the berry juice seep out of the berry. Fun fact! If you do this, you get white ghost berries so strain them out. If you want berry chunks, add new berries afters.
Turns out I love Brussels sprouts, so long as you don’t cook them til they’re grey.
Also, the new cultivars are WAY less bitter. You can still grow the old type yourself at home, and it’s really a huge difference.
This is the important part. Modern Brussels sprouts are NOT your grandma’s sprouts from the 1990s or earlier. From wikipedia :
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2241/
Frozen is way better than canned
Canned veggies aren’t that bad. But my mom used to treat them like they fresh.
So instead of just warming them up in the liquid, she would rinse them, then boil them like normal (which was already too long).
Do you mean to tell me vegetables can be cooked some other way besides boiling? And you can put seasoning on them?!? My grandfather would be disgusted by the thought.
Even boiled vegetables taste good if you don’t go stupid mode about it.
I got fucking microwave steamed frozen veggies with no seasoning at all not even butter and if I didn’t eat the freezer burnt slop I wasn’t allowed to leave the table.
Trauma bonding hell yeah. 👊
I get the microwaved steamed veggies now. But I at least toss them in some olive oil or butter and season them. Usually I’ll microwave them halfway to thaw them then fry them in some oil to get a nicer char. Not gourmet, but perfectly fine.
I used to stir fry my veggies, but they’d end up soft due to the resulting moisture.
Then I baked them in the oven hoping that’d be better, but I’d overcook them just a bit and they’d be too hard.
I finally decided to air fry my veggies, and they were juuuuuuuuuuuuust right!
Boggles my mind oven roasted asparagus and broccoli were not a thing as a child.
My gourmand grampolycule even did grilled lemon almond mzithra broccoli once in the 90s. They spoiled us.