For the love of Produce...
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SuzanneC1l9zz wrote: »I found the yellow carrots have a milder flavour than the usual orange ones. Quite nice. Still have some purple ones and the purple cauliflower to try
I once made carrot soup with purple ones. It tasted like my usual soup, but looked like borsht!6 -
Used some of that nice produce box to make a mixed-greens salad, with avocado-cottage cheese dressing and some pumpkin seeds on top; plus a veggie stew with lentils, onion, purple kale, jar tomatoes, roasted sweet potato chunks, corn (yeah, frozen, so shoot me 😆). Added some home-grated parmesan to the latter after the photo.
Hey, frozen veg have a place. They let us add variety and are sometimes just what the dish needed. I support this picture and would likely lick the bowl.6 -
Just had a life changing experience. Soursop. (I think.)5 -
Easter dinner (non traditional): veg was sauteed green beans, oyster mushrooms, and zucchini. Main dish was brisket with lots of carrots, celery, and onions in a tomato sauce with potatoes and cabbage.3
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Steamed and ate half the cauliflower last night. Delicious!4
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purplefizzy wrote: »
Just had a life changing experience. Soursop. (I think.)
What are these things? How do they taste and how do you make them? Are they similar to anything else? I could look them up but, you know....lazy. :-)3 -
Easter dinner was grilled salmon and deviled eggs and this awesome grilled asparagus. EVOO, pepper, salt, and a touch of garlic powder. That’s it. It was spectacular!5 -
@acpgee I bought my dad a sprout tray with two bags of sprouts about ten years ago but he never uses it so I'm borrowing it and trying to grow the seeds, I have microgreens going outside then sprouts indoors, I figured since I've gone crazy with my garden this year I should finally try it out! I wasn't big into sprouts when I was younger but used to eat a cheese sandwich loaded with sprouts before class at the cafe before class at UC Santa Cruz and it's bringing back memories. Aside of sandwiches, salad, and maybe stir fry I'm not sure how else I'd eat them but I'll look into it! I still have the bag of peas I bought at the Indian market after I saw you doing them and will try
those after I see if these two mixes sprout.
For some reason when I try to attach pictures on the forums or groups they detach when I post so I can't post my garden, I have a lot of different things going that are new like Japanese sweet potatoes, snap peas, strawberries, zucchini, squash, peppers, tomatoes, green beans of various kinds, flowers, succulents, and a bunch of herbs. On top of that I discovered Sacramento has Take a Plant Leaf a Plant stands so I've been going all over the place trading things, it's really fun. On Saturdays I help out at the food bank garden, it's really amazing for a small town.5 -
Round zucchini sliced and made like small pizzas.
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When my son was little we used to do fruit of the week. Each week I would try to find a fruit that he or I had never tried before. We have tried some interesting ones. Some went into the meh pile and some have become favourites. It has become harder over the years to find new fruit, but today I came across pepino melons at the store. Now I have to look them up to find out how to tell when they are ripe and how to eat them. They were surrounded by mangosteen, kumquats, dragon fruit, passion fruit and grenadillas, so I am not sure where they are grown.5
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snowflake954 wrote: »Round zucchini sliced and made like small pizzas.
Gosh I wish I could find that shape of zucchini! I like making "zucchini pizzas" and go through phases of eating it often. They are very good, but those round ones would sure work out better! And by better I mean bigger. Lol.2 -
chris89topher wrote: »snowflake954 wrote: »Round zucchini sliced and made like small pizzas.
Gosh I wish I could find that shape of zucchini! I like making "zucchini pizzas" and go through phases of eating it often. They are very good, but those round ones would sure work out better! And by better I mean bigger. Lol.
Do you like eggplant? They're bigger! 😉2 -
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chris89topher wrote: »snowflake954 wrote: »Round zucchini sliced and made like small pizzas.
Gosh I wish I could find that shape of zucchini! I like making "zucchini pizzas" and go through phases of eating it often. They are very good, but those round ones would sure work out better! And by better I mean bigger. Lol.
Do you like eggplant? They're bigger! 😉
Yes! I make the same using eggplant too.1 -
snowflake954 wrote: »Round zucchini sliced and made like small pizzas.
That's so cute it's ridiculous. I bet tasty too.3 -
snowflake954 wrote: »Round zucchini sliced and made like small pizzas.
That's so cute it's ridiculous. I bet tasty too.
Yes, they were surprisingly good. The proof was my sons, who ate them right up. I usually make them stuffed with rice, and you're right, they are cute. For the pizzas you slice the zucchini, salt, fry in a little EVOO, pile on the sauce, cheese, and basil, and put under the broiler for a min.5 -
MinTheKitCat wrote: »What’s y’alls’ favorite way to cook/ eat turnips? I got about 12 of them in my last produce box, lol
My mom used to put them in Chinese beef stews. Pickling would be a good strategy if you have more than you can deal with. Don't bother with fine julienne with sample recipe below. Use a spiralizer or rough grating attachment on your food processor.
https://mykoreankitchen.com/pickled-carrots-and-daikon-radish/3 -
snowflake954 wrote: »Round zucchini sliced and made like small pizzas.
I’m growing round zucchini in my garden this year! I bet I’ll end up trying this!
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chris89topher wrote: »snowflake954 wrote: »Round zucchini sliced and made like small pizzas.
Gosh I wish I could find that shape of zucchini! I like making "zucchini pizzas" and go through phases of eating it often. They are very good, but those round ones would sure work out better! And by better I mean bigger. Lol.
We've only had them available for about 6 yrs. They'll arrive. They grow just like regular zucchini. They are almost like small green pumpkins.0 -
snowflake954 wrote: »Round zucchini sliced and made like small pizzas.
That's so cute it's ridiculous. I bet tasty too.
You really DO have a disagree fairy.2 -
snowflake954 wrote: »snowflake954 wrote: »Round zucchini sliced and made like small pizzas.
That's so cute it's ridiculous. I bet tasty too.
You really DO have a disagree fairy.
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I didn't even notice that one. Oh well. At least most folks play nice. They are awfully cute little eggplant melts. Same with the ones stuffed with rice!6 -
On today’s episode of Clearance Produce Section Adventures:
I got 4 limes and also these little beat up papayas. The flesh itself was still firm so I took a $1 gamble and it paid off. Now I have enough frozen papaya chunks for a couple smoothies. I have no idea what it is about frozen papaya but it has this magical ability to give your smoothie the texture of sorbet. Absolutely the best.6 -
o0Firekeeper0o wrote: »
On today’s episode of Clearance Produce Section Adventures:
I got 4 limes and also these little beat up papayas. The flesh itself was still firm so I took a $1 gamble and it paid off. Now I have enough frozen papaya chunks for a couple smoothies. I have no idea what it is about frozen papaya but it has this magical ability to give your smoothie the texture of sorbet. Absolutely the best.
I love the clearance bins in the produce section! Best case scenario is a find like yours. Worst case scenario is a huge pot of soup that cost about $2 to put together. Either way its a win 4 -
ridiculous59 wrote: »
I love the clearance bins in the produce section! Best case scenario is a find like yours. Worst case scenario is a huge pot of soup that cost about $2 to put together. Either way its a win
Sometimes the clearance bin at my store is a fail, like, no that’s turning to liquid it’s gone so bad, just toss it lol. But many times it’s just things that are bruised or have easily removable bad spots! I wish more stores did it here. This store is literally the only one I’ve seen so far
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I stopped by the tiny produce store this morning and came out with some turnips, some asparagus, and an ENORMOUS bok choy. I'll be getting a few meals out of that one!9
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Now that I've figured out how to attach a picture... normal sized asparagus for scale.9 -
Farmer's market day, lots of different nice greens on offer, among other goodies. I got this lovely big ruffly bunch of mustard greens. I wilted about half of those in a sort of mushroom-tamari broth, and added in some tofu noodles that I'd crisped in the oven, for dinner.
The other part of dinner used romaine lettuce, also from the market today: Salad with pear, local goat feta, toasted walnuts, thin-sliced onion, white balsamic vinegar.
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This is not about fresh produce but I used my mom's rather clever technique last night for cooking frozen peas in way that they make a good quick veggie side for asian food. She would melt a little butter, fry off a clove or two of minced garlic until fragrant, tip in a few handfuls of frozen pea with a generous sprinkle of salt and a tiny pinch of sugar. Saute, stirring until bright green and cooed through. The other dish was aubergine with minced pork and quorn.
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I'm getting the chard and kale that I left in the garden last fall. Luckily, my family is used to my cooking and will eat whatever I put in front of them. Pretty soon, it's time to uncover the asparagus and then we'll eat that steadily for a few weeks. I'm so ready to be eating my own veggies!!6
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Used some of that nice produce box to make a mixed-greens salad, with avocado-cottage cheese dressing and some pumpkin seeds on top; plus a veggie stew with lentils, onion, purple kale, jar tomatoes, roasted sweet potato chunks, corn (yeah, frozen, so shoot me 😆). Added some home-grated parmesan to the latter after the photo.
mfp should have guidelines against posting something that looks this good without a recipe... 2
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