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Eggplant. There must be some way to cook it that isn't gross, but I haven't found it.
I haven't cooked eggplant a lot. I had a pasta dish with only vegetables, garlic and olive oil. I've tried to figure that recipe out so many times. Key is getting garlic in the spaghetti noodles. Anyway it had eggplant, zucchini, onions and mushrooms. Before eating this dish I'd never think of eating eggplant. I saw on a video you should salt the slices of eggplant at least twenty minutes to get rid of bitterness. I like it sautéed but would never order an eggplant dish with pasta and cheese in Italian restaurant. I don't like mushy vegetables.
Mushrooms - I know people of them, but I think they’re disgusting. They’re all squishy and icky! Yuk!
Yep one of my favorite veggies.
cauliflower
love vegetables, but not a huge fan of peas, unless they're cold in macaroni salad. unfortunately have noticed a change in the store bought vegetables, so hoping for some good farmers markets this year.
Pea I love , however, yes, quality has dropped.
I think water chestnuts are vegetables...
I dislike them.
Once my family and my parents were on a vacation to Gatlinburg. We went to a Chinese restaurant and I can’t remember what my Daddy had.
Anyway, after we were walking out, I asked him how he liked it. He said it was good except for those tiny raw potatoes. I told him they were water chestnuts!
I still remember this 30 years later.
That's hilarious 😂
I love water chestnuts in Chinese food. I like it because they’re crunchy. I’m not sure they have much flavor, but I like the crunch.
Oh! I'm with you, fren. They are completely pointless and disgusting. They always take me by surprise, too.
Okra
I can eat fried okra only if the pieces are small and it's gotta be crispy. If you live in the south it's a common side in mom n pop restaurants that serve classic American comfort foods.
I don’t like eggplant either. But that’s pretty close to a mushroom. Lol.
If you ever find a Greek restaurant, give moussaka a try. It includes eggplant and might convert you to enjoying eggplant. Agree with you, by itself eggplant is off-putting, but man it makes moussaka a wonderful dish!
I like it baked well with lots of cheese and tomato, but, alas, can no longer eat it, too high in histamines for my condition.
So what if it's slimy and tasteless.
It grows like a weed in the south and you can pickle it!
Black olives. They taste like little balls of dirt
I love black and green olives. I think I prefer black. My favorite way to eat them is in a green salad with tomatoes, feta and oil & vinegar homemade Italian dressing.
Funny. Not a fan either but for reasons unknown my 11yo son LOVES black olives. So much so that when we dine out, we ask for a small dish of black olives just as an appetizer. Bizarro.
I can't stand beets
funny because I like those/think they're cute and What are they if they're not a vegetable?
The chinese owned kind from delaware.
Many cooked roots, including carrots as their fibers turn into sugars when cooked. Corn also.
So you read « The Omnivore Dilemma », then. I agree this is not to be eaten.
Well (amongst other things) the book explains that in order to fix so well nitrogen, corn is naturally rich in naturally occurring Carbon13 and when you bring a piece of corn-fed chicken meat to a spectroscope, you will notice how rich in this isotope it also has become. Corn is easy to grow with NPK (Nitrogen-Phosphorus-Kalium) as was determined by Bayer in the XIXth century, so they try to put it everywhere, including as HFCS (the soda sweetener) which is the addictive mean to the obesity epidemics.
BTW Pringles are corn crips flavoured with another neurotoxin: Glutamate. Cook your crisps (and grill your nuts) yourself!