• Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
    31·
    3 hours ago

    this meme has some truth in it, in that these six vegetables are all brassica oleracea. but, the factoid in the center of the meme is misleading: brassica oleracea can be many things but (despite brassicaceae being “the mustard and cabbage family”) brassica oleracea is not typically called “wild mustard plant”.

    edit: toned down my refutation; i guess maybe it is sometimes 👀 but i think not really

  • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    122·
    12 hours ago

    To all the veggie haters:

    Broccoli recipe:

    1. Fry broccoli with paprika and small pieces of meat or tofu in a pan until brown.
    2. Add water and seasonings.
    3. Steam to desired hardness.
    4. Serve with rice or couscous.

    Cauliflower recipe:

    1. Make brown butter by heating up butter and adding breadcrumbs to soak it up.
    2. Serve it on enough steamed cauliflower to justify the amount of brown butter you are about to eat.
    • morbidcactus@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      Sprouts do well with Braising, this is roughly how I do them, based on a whim that turned out fantastic.

      1. Halve and clean your sprouts, salt and pepper them
      2. Sear cut side down in oil of your choice. Bacon is the classic but absolutely not required if you want to do it vegan, maybe use some smoked paprika to get the smokey flavour, add aromatics like garlic near the end, it burns easy.
      3. Deglaze with balsamic vinegar, add enough liquid to just barely cover the bottom of the pan, cover and simmer until happy.

      I know sprouts are far less bitter than they were when I was a kid, but I legit thought I disliked them. Borrowed a lot from braised cabbage recipes, just with a bit more aggressive browning. The sprouts hold up really well to longer cooking IMO (can’t say the same to leeks, braised leeks are great, but not how I did them, turned into a textural nightmare), they’re amazing hot or cold.

    • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 hours ago

      Or, the Italian way: simmer garlic in a pan with olive oil, throw in the vegetables and a bit of water, throw in some salt, cover, cook until soft, check occasionally that it isn’t burning

    • LSNLDN@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      9 hours ago

      My recent favourite is broccoli roasted until crispy, so good. Before then it was crispy kale but as we all know it’s basically the same plant

    • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 hours ago

      Here is a good one, Mashed cauliflower:

      1. Boil cauliflower
      2. submerge mixer with some milk
      3. enjoy the smoothest mash you have ever tried that comes out to like 40 calories per 100g

      Roasted anything (brussel spouts, broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, asparagus)

      1. Coat in olive oil, salt, garlic powder
      2. air fry or roast

      Enjoy awesome tasting veggies.

      Veggie rice(white rice is for sushi goddamnit)

      1. Satuee some onions, garlic
      2. add some cut up bell peppers, tomatoes
      3. cook for a while
      4. add frozen peas and carrots and a choice of frozen vegetables (broccoli or green beans)
      5. add water and bring to a boil
      6. add the rice and simmer it for the prescribed time +1-2 minutes
      7. let it sit for 10 minutes

      Enjoy a rice full of veggies and color ( I also use a “curry” mix that’s turmeric, koriander and a bunch of other stuff that gives it a nice yellow color, and this way you have your rice and veggies in one and they enhance each other’s flavor.

    • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      46·
      9 hours ago

      Hard no. Extremely hard no. This is the kind of crap our parents would make and serve.

      For anyone with taste buds, let’s be abundantly clear on something: steaming vegetables is perhaps the WORST way to cook them.

      Unless you are eating them raw, or using them as an ingredient in a larger dish, almost all vegetables should be roasted/grilled to bring out and caramelize their natural sugars. Steaming them strips away a lot of the nutrients and flavors, leaving you with tasteless mush. Like you’re cooking the soul out of them and leaving only a sad memory of what they could have been.

      • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        8 hours ago

        Hard no. Extremely hard no. This is the kind of crap our parents would make and serve.

        For anyone with taste buds, let’s be abundantly clear on something: steaming vegetables is perhaps the WORST way to cook them.

        I’m sorry your parents were terrible cooks. Steamed veggies can be very delicious what done right, and it’s not that difficult to do.

      • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        29·
        22 hours ago

        How? Like… literally how?

        I grow kale and it looks nothing like the plant in the OP. It looks like a regular bunch of kale.

        Or is this like “all 6 vegetables come from one main vegetable”, kind of like how all citrus fruits comes from citron.

        • jolEnglish
          10·
          16 hours ago

          Just like dog breeds look very distinct, but cranked up to eleven with horrible deformities. Imagine if we continued to breed chihuahuas to have bigger heads and smaller bodies until they are 90% head. Or breed a breed of hound to be smaller with increasingly bigger ears until it’s 90% ears. They would still be dogs of the same species because they can procreate together.

        • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
          15·
          19 hours ago

          Artificial selection!

          If you think that’s amazing - look up what bananas looked like before human cultivation. Basically any fruit or vegetable you eat is the product of centuries of humans carefully selecting what seeds to save and plant.

          • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            11·
            8 hours ago

            My wife and I had fried plantains at a Venezuelan restaurant a couple weeks ago. That shit was absolutely divine with beans, rice, meat, and a fried egg on top.

  • F5XS@beehaw.orgEnglish
    8·
    17 hours ago

    scientific name

    uppercase species

    not even underlined or italicized

    • fartknocker@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      15 hours ago

      Damn, and I thought the bots on Reddit strangled out all the pedants. Guess this is where they went.

    • FiskFisk33@startrek.websiteEnglish
      21·
      15 hours ago

      We eat like 2 plants. One is brassica mentioned above.

      The other one is nightshade. In the nightshade family we find tomatos, aubergine, tobacco, peppers, physalis, potatoes and of course the extremely toxic bella-donna (deadly nightshade)

      • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
        7·
        17 hours ago

        Just a small correction: you missed an “a” in bella-donna (bella donna means “beautiful woman” in Italian)

      • jolEnglish
        2·
        17 hours ago

        Doesn’t sound like a complete diet

          • SwedneckEnglish
            2·
            11 hours ago

            to make the list a bit more complete there’s also the rose plants (rosebuds, apples, plums, basically all the nice sweet fruits growing on trees and bushes), legumes, and of course grasses (basically all the grains are some form of grass seeds)

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzEnglish
      422·
      1 day ago

      People have some hate boner against Brussels sprouts, but damn - if you know how to prepare them, they’re delicious.

      • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
        192·
        19 hours ago

        Look, anything pan fried with butter, salt, black pepper, bacon and a little white wine is going to taste great…

        • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 hours ago

          I literally just take them out of the freezer, drizzle a little bit of olive oil (1-3grams), salt, garlic powder and air fry them for 23 minutes at 200 C.

          That’s it.

          Same recipe works with green beans, asparagus, broccoli

        • jolEnglish
          3·
          16 hours ago

          I just bake them with a little oilve oil, salt and rosemary. That’s all it takes. If I have the time I boil them for 5 minutes before cutting them in half and baking them.

      • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        14 hours ago

        I actually prefer to eat them raw. A cup a day before sleeping. They act as sleeping pills for me

        You get used to the taste and learn to enjoy it, same as with beer except they are good for you and increase hair density. It’s a real life equivalent of ent water

        • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzEnglish
          182·
          24 hours ago

          Selective breeding does play a role but also how you prepare them. Just like other brassicae if you cook them for too long they start smelling bad, so you want to use high heat and relatively short cooking times.

          For example. My go-to approach is to cut them into halves and pan-fry in lard. High fire. People claim it’s delicious.

      • Thelie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        10·
        22 hours ago

        I’ve had this discussion before, had the “proper way” of preparing them explained to me and made them according to these instructions. Turns out, I just don’t like the taste. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzEnglish
          5·
          22 hours ago

          Individual tastes are a thing, too. At least someone out there is bound to dislike even the most beloved dishes; the thing, for me, is how many people claim to hate Brussels sprouts, even if they deserve some leafy and greasy love.