I love broccoli and often get pitying looks from my friends and family when I try to find recipes that include generous portions of broccoli in their ingredients list.
How about you? Are you a broccoli lover or a broccoli hater?
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I love broccoli and often get pitying looks from my friends and family when I try to find recipes that include generous portions of broccoli in their ingredients list.
How about you? Are you a broccoli lover or a broccoli hater?
I can eat raw broccoli because it's pretty tasteless, but the smell and taste after it's been cooked or frozen are godawful.
I love it, raw, grilled, steamed, fried anyway you can think of.
but wasn't it broccoli that killed Homer Simpson?
I really like broccoli, though when I was younger I tended to dislike it extremely. But I like it cooked or steamed most, and particularly in a wok or some kind of Thai food... But I just had some broccoli today for lunch, and it was great.
Though I will admit that it does smell rather unpleasant after being cooked.
And it's so good for you! Many health benefits.
Love it - cooked or uncooked. Smell? Steam it, hardly any smell, ditto cabbage.
I love it in all its forms, my favourite is roasted broccoli & potato soup
I had a colleague who used the office microwave to warm up her broccoli every afternoon. Apparently, she was on a diet. Somehow, though, she never lost any weight.
I have since decided that broccoli not only looks, tastes and smells awful, but is also a totally useless thing.
Man, I used to almost never eat vegetables, and I always figured it was a problem because of the four food groups campaigns. But I always hated preparing food, I liked it simple, and vegetables always seemed to require cleaning, cutting, maybe even cooking. Then broccoli changed everything.
You can just stick it in the microwave, on a paper towel! Maybe rinse it first, but that's it--and it comes out terrific (if maybe a little hot). Go ahead and put half a slice of cheese on top, if like cheese. And/or if you are willing to get a plate involved, you could put a couple thin slices of butter on top (you might want to do this for a brief secondary burst of microwaving).
It's also one of the more nutritious vegetables--it's got both vitamins A and C.
I can't say enough about this miracle food.
But god could this reader use the fiber.
J
So, apart from the Forum Doctor, we all like broccoli... Almost against the medical advice.
;)
Any recipe ideas?
I have had a superlative supply of purple sprouting broccoli this year from my allotment. It is very good in curries.
Growing up, my mom just made it covered in cheese. She'd buy some really nice cheese from the deli then just use it to cover steamed broccoli. It's so simple, but I've honestly never had a complicated broccoli dish that tasted better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Yes, very good in curries.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
Or in any Thai dish... with soy sauce maybe.
this sounds really good too: http://www.vegetariantimes.com/recip...coli-and-tofu/
For all you vegetarians :) (it seems Vegan friendly too)
I don't mind broccoli, but I don't like it just boiled/blanched or steamed. I prefer it in soups and curries, and as a side dish, par-boiled and finished off in a pan with some butter, garlic and chilli. The broccoli and cheese combination is also okay.
This is my favourite broccoli recipe, non vegans could always use chickpeas & bacon rather than using spices to flavour them. Its a brilliant recipe, rather like a roast dinner in a soup:
http://havecakewilltravel.com/2010/0...s-annoying-me/