Guest guest Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 ----- Original Message ----- From: old542000 Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 4:16 PM Subject: [ ] Frozen veggies Hi All,I quickly learned that you're not going to have a transcendent experience dining on plain steamed frozen vegetables. (No surprise there, but who eats steamed undressed vegetables no matter how fresh they are?) I do. Even brussels sprouts. It doesn't give me a transcxx whatever, but I get to taste the product, not the condiments. If you leave off the cheez whiz, vegetables actually taste different form one another. Now liver is a diff story. Once my sis-in-law thought she get me to eat liver. Made it into Ravioli. One bite, and I never trusted her again. Why not a liver sauce for veggies? We could make the remark it requires an "acquired taste" as if that meant something. Most of the stupid things we do with foods are acquired tastes, not because they have nutrients we actually need. Regards. None of this is to say that I now routinely head straight for the frozen vegetable case. Some vegetables still seem better fresh: dark leafy greens like kale, collards and spinach (all of which can be grown somewhere in the United States year round); and broccoli, potatoes, onions and carrots, which keep well and are popular enough to turn over fast. But wallflower root vegetables like turnips tend to sit around and are better frozen than waxed and mushy. And peas, corn, green beans and beans you can rarely buy fresh - limas, favas and edamame - and my now-beloved pepper strips are all better bets frozen, from now until at least May.After that, presumably, summer will change my habits once again.Cheers, Al Pater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 Hi Al & JW: All I need to make steamed vegetables very tasty to my palate is to sprinkle a little cider vinegar, malt vinegar, balsamic vinegar or chutney on them. And pepper too if you like. (If using a lot of chutney best to make your own and substitute sucralose for the sugar in the recipe). I used to worry about whether the acid in the vinegar might leach calcium from bones, but then I remembered that the stomach is decidedly acidic already with hydrochloric acid so it is hardly likely a little acetic occasionally will hurt. Rodney. --- In , " jwwright " <jwwright@e...> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: old542000 > > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 4:16 PM > Subject: [ ] Frozen veggies > > > > Hi All, > > I quickly learned that you're not going to have a transcendent > experience dining on plain steamed frozen vegetables. (No surprise > there, but who eats steamed undressed vegetables no matter how fresh > they are?) > > > I do. Even brussels sprouts. > It doesn't give me a transcxx whatever, but I get to taste the product, not the condiments. If you leave off the cheez whiz, vegetables actually taste different form one another. > Now liver is a diff story. Once my sis-in-law thought she get me to eat liver. Made it into Ravioli. One bite, and I never trusted her again. Why not a liver sauce for veggies? We could make the remark it requires an " acquired taste " as if that meant something. > > Most of the stupid things we do with foods are acquired tastes, not because they have nutrients we actually need. > > Regards. > > > > None of this is to say that I now routinely head straight for the > frozen vegetable case. Some vegetables still seem better fresh: dark > leafy greens like kale, collards and spinach (all of which can be > grown somewhere in the United States year round); and broccoli, > potatoes, onions and carrots, which keep well and are popular enough > to turn over fast. > But wallflower root vegetables like turnips tend to sit around and > are better frozen than waxed and mushy. And peas, corn, green beans > and beans you can rarely buy fresh - limas, favas and edamame - and > my now-beloved pepper strips are all better bets frozen, from now > until at least May. > > After that, presumably, summer will change my habits once again. > > > Cheers, Al Pater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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