Author Topic: Vegetables (Read 3964 times)

« **Reply #15 on:** October 23, 2006, 07:37:09 pm »

sorry

bethypoos · « **Reply #16 on:** October 23, 2006, 09:57:24 pm »

I've been thinking about this today...

(I really should have more important things on my mind) I can't actually pick because now i think about it i'd add asparagus and courgettes. Then there's also brocolli. I guess I like my greens

kevvosa · « **Reply #17 on:** October 23, 2006, 10:29:04 pm »

I had some tinned asparagus recently and it was vile.

loulou · « **Reply #18 on:** October 23, 2006, 11:32:37 pm »

I don't like asparagus much and I steer clear of tinned veg.

kevvosa · « **Reply #19 on:** October 23, 2006, 11:48:14 pm »

Asparagus aint cheap.

loulou · « **Reply #20 on:** October 24, 2006, 01:11:12 am »

How much is it?

goldencup · « **Reply #21 on:** October 24, 2006, 01:17:52 am »

I quite like tinned asparagus.

smurfboy · « **Reply #22 on:** October 24, 2006, 01:26:04 am »

I've never had it tinned. I love fresh asparagus but Kev is right about the price - it's an occasional treat. I had some battered asparagus once in New York and it was gorgeous

goldencup · « **Reply #23 on:** October 24, 2006, 01:38:36 am »

mmmm I'll have to look out for that when I'm there.

oldspice · « **Reply #24 on:** October 24, 2006, 08:11:25 am »

I love most vegetable except peas and braod beans. My favourites are fennel, leeks, broccoli and cauliflower. i love corn-on-th-cob too and yes, I know it's not a vegetable but I eat it as such. Same goes for butternut squash.

« **Reply #25 on:** October 24, 2006, 10:38:05 am »

If we can include any edible plant, i.e. vegetable, fruit, tuber, bulb, herb or legume then my top five are:

1. Parsnip

2. Butternut squash

3. Beetroot

4. Mint

5. Persimmon

kevvosa · « **Reply #26 on:** October 24, 2006, 12:23:57 pm »

The tinned asparagus I had was 99p, for about 6 mushy sticks of it. It costs about 1.99 fresh.

loulou · « **Reply #27 on:** October 24, 2006, 05:21:10 pm »

That is expensive kev. Bounty what's a persimmon?

goldencup · « **Reply #28 on:** October 24, 2006, 06:11:11 pm »

persimmon

n 1: any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros [syn: persimmon tree] 2: orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe

Well Bounty did say he was including fruit.

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oldspice · « **Reply #29 on:** October 24, 2006, 06:52:01 pm »

A true persimmon is almost inedible unless cooked (poached) because it is extremely astringent. About 30 or so years ago, the Agricultural Export Company of Israel, whose brand name is Carmel, developed a sweet-tasting persimmon that can be eaten without needing to be poached. It is now known as the Sharon Fruit (Sharon meaning vinyard of the Lord). Only Carmel persimmons are allowed to be called Sharon Fruits.

I was among the first Sharon Fruit buyers in the country back then.

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