I would have to go with turnips. Incredibly versatile and nutritious root, plus delicious greens to fry up

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    30
    ·
    1 year ago

    People say they hate cabbage all the time, but cabbage is really great. You can make slaw with it, you can ferment it into sauerkraut or kimchi, you can steam it for a side or to put in a sandwich, you can add it to any kind of filling or stuffing, or you can roll other stuff inside it, you can boil it in a soup, it gives a great flavor to vegetable broth, it’s really nutritious and it keeps for much longer than other leafy greens.

      • pixelscript@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        I garnered a very low opinion of pretty much all vegetables during childhood that persisted well into adulthood, because I grew up in a household that only ever prepared them one of two ways: raw, or boiled.

        Doesn’t matter what it was. Carrots, peas, corn, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, green beans… the two exceptions being onions (which may have been fried on occasion) or potatoes (which culinarily aren’t in the same category). If it was boiled, there’d be a half-assed attempt to make it taste like something again by melting a knob of butter on it and salting it. That’s it.

        When that’s the extent of your culinary range, cabbage has no reason to enter the house, so for us it never did. We just assumed it would be shit if you prepared it that way. And we were probably right. Boiled cabbage is what the poor Bucket family was said to have eaten every day in Willy Wonka. Doesn’t paint a glamorous picture.

        I’m only just now coming around to the concept of vegetables tasting good when you, like, y’know, actually cook them well. Haven’t given cabbage a fair shake yet, though.

      • Ashtear@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        1 year ago

        I used to hate cabbage because my father boiled the crap out of it with corned beef every St. Patrick’s Day. Disgusting.

        Then I discovered stir fry, okonomiyaki, kimchi. Now it’s a favorite.

    • Dandroid@dandroid.app
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      I love most vegetables, but cabbage isn’t one of them. I don’t like any of the things you just mentioned.

    • fanbois [he/him]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      Cut it stripes, some salt, fry in a pan and you can throw it over a lot of dishes.

      Botanical fun fact: cabbage is just a variant of Brassica oleracea, which includes like every tasty vegetable on the planet: cauliflower, broccoli, brussel sprouts, kohlrabi, kale, collards, all kinds of cabbage shapes, colours and sizes, and more.

    • squiblet@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      I’m a big fan of certain cabbage like napa. Also cole slaw with purple cabbage is pretty great.