/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Think of vegetables as providers of essential vitamins and nutrients, not flavors.

Nigga they good for you.

cut them into bite-sized pieces. toss with a small amount of oil, and salt, then roast at 425F for 10-12 minutes. sprinkle on some vinegar or lemon juice after if you want more flavor.

The health benefits of vegetables have been grossly exaggerated. Eat what tastes good to you and have a long and happy life, my friend.

>>4256797
This. Don't be a faggot bro, eat that shit and learn to enjoy their fresh flavors and aromas.

If you really are a bitch nigga, jusy juice your veggies and chug that shit. But we all know you're no bitch, right?

>>4256802
I ain't no bitch. Also, V8 sucks, so I doubt I'd like juiced veggies anyways. I'll lurk around for some recipes.

>>4256798
Thanks, I'll try that. At the very least, I could throw that into some pasta.

>>4256810
You faggit, make a healthy shake then. Throw in some ice, some juice and some fruit. Trust me, dawg.

Nobody likes vegetables at the start.

Nobody.

Hell, even when you've been eating them for awhile, there are still times when you'll just think "bleh".

But you eat them anyways because they're good for you, and they're filling while still being low calories.

Think of them as filler. You put them in a dish to make the leftovers last a little longer, and to justify consuming some low volume, high calorie food.

>>4256790
>How do I make vegetables not suck
you can't. the only thing you can do is pretend to enjoy them as is or smother them in something that doesn't suck.

>Not just cutting up some spring onion, shitake mushrooms, peppers, aubergines, chili, water chestnuts and lobbing in some beansprouts into a wok and frying with rice
Add some soy and dried chili flakes and you're in for a decent time

>>4256966

Eventually you sort of get a masochistic enjoyment out of them.

They still taste like garbage, but you're grown accustomed to them so it doesn't seem as bad.

>>4256991
yep, but it's hard to acknowledge this without trying to justify it under more sophisticated pretenses.

Grow your own vegetables, be amazed that they actually taste good.

Why does everyone in this thread have such bad taste? Vegetables suck? How old are you little shits, 5?

>>4257833

American produce sucks Cerberus' taint.

but yeah, fruits and veg are the two best things you can do for yourself. As for what makes it taste better, just make a giant omelet and toss a whole bunch of these fuckers in.

Put some ranch on that bitch.

Butter, garlic, wine.

>>4256790

Cook them into something... Like soups or sauces.

>>4256830

i've always liked vegetables, since i was a kid what are you talking about?

OP since you don't like vegetables try incorporating the ones you can stand the most/don't mind as much slowly into food you do eat. like if you don't mind spinach and you love pizza throw some spinach on it next time you eat it.

if you have trouble tasting the flavour in vegetables though it might be because your taste buds are used to fatty sugary foods and if you cut those out for a little while you'd be able to taste vegetables better.

Leek and potato soup.
Pumpkin soup.
Tomato soup.
Vegetable bake.
Potato bake.
If you don't like the above, eat it because it's good for you, not because you like the taste.

>>4256966
>>4256830
>>4256991
Legit curious, how much do you all weigh? Are you American? I've always loved vegetables, even as a child, and most meals in my country are based on them alone. Do you all just eat hunks of meat for a meal?

>>4257958
Meat is important (fuck yeah, Texas) but for me the biggest portion of a typical meal is pasta or something like that. Though I do include vegetables, and I'm usually slightly underweight.

>USA

>>4256830
Spinach cooked with some olive oil and garlic tastes good. Corn tastes good with some butter. I like broccoli cooked right.

>>4256790
OBVIOUS TROLL IS OBVIOUS!

But, because I'm a masochist and can't pass a good trolling up, I'll help ya out brother. I'm not saying that I'm going to be cooking healthily here, but I'll try my best from what I've learned

First of all, steamed veggies. Seriously. Put a bit of garlic butter in there and BAM. Instant win. Even regular butter works. Maybe a bit of melted cheese on them when you're doing cooking them.

Now if you don't wanna do that, cook your veggies in the leftover grease and fat of your manly meaty meats made from the MEAT of meat! Seriously, some carrot, broccoli, califlour, or even brussel sprouts being cooked in bacon grease or some pork chop juice? Vegatables from heaven.

Salads are a bit tricky because you might wanna add some olive oil or dressing in. If you want to go healthy, you can forgo them, but personally, I like to add a bit of ranch myself. Tastes GREAT. One key thing I do to keep salads tasting yum without ranch is to make it COLORFUL. add a bit of yellow in (corn) a bit of white (egg) some red (capsicum or tomato) green (lettuce, cabbage, or green oinions) and a bit of brown (like grilled onions). also, why stop at vegatables in your salad? throw in some chopped up bacon or maybe a hard boiled egg (Sliced up of course) in there.

My own recipie for an awesome salad is a head of lettuce, cut up into a triangle, with bacon bits and ranch dressed dribbled over it with some tomato and a hard boiled egg on the side.

Is any of this healthy? probably not, but you're eating vegatables aren't ya?

Captcha: Against Iciinq

OH captcha! we're always against icing in our salads!

It's like you people ain't never heard of peas and carrots.

>>4258099

olive oil is healthy.

>>4257958
Not one of the posts you quoted but 6'3" (about 1.9 meters) and 225 lbs (little over 102 kg). Amerifag. I could stand to lose a few pounds but I'm not fat and do a lot of physical labour in my free time. I grew up loving stewed greens (spinach being a favourite), broccoli, carrots, Brussels sprouts (probably my absolute favourite vegetable), etc. I suppose maybe two or three years ago was the first time I ever had asparagus (nobody else in my family really eats it) and it's at the top of the list for me too. Basically have never had a vegetable I didn't enjoy.

I'm in the mid-Atlantic DMV area (DC, Maryland, Virginia) so I also grew up on a lot of Southern American foods like loads of bacon or scrapple at breakfast time, ham steaks, corn and cornbread, greens, and so on but also lots of local seafood (flounder, striped bass, blue crab, oysters). I'm kind of spoiled I suppose. My hometown was pretty rural when I was young and has grown into another chunk of the ever-growing suburbia but cities like DC, Baltimore and Annapolis MD, Richmond VA and the sort have always been a short drive or a metro ride away. I could pop into places like Chinatown or predominantly Spanish areas and find a lot of foods I might never have known about otherwise. One of the many benefits of being close to major cities along a coastal area.

Aquire new tastebuds. Yours are obviously broken.

>>4256830

Wut. No. Your parents were shit or you were shit. I was eating raw peas out of the garden when I was two years old.

>>4258263
>Spanish
Should've said Hispanic or maybe Latin. Reminds me of when I was working construction for a while with a buddy. We'd always stop at this hole-in-the-wall. First time I'd ever had Peruvian chicken and Yuca fries. Not the healthiest way to prepare a root/veggie but I could eat them all day.

just do this
>brown sugar
>butter
>carrots

but in all seriousness, caramelize most veggies and it will improve them a lot. Especially when it comes to spaghetti squash, carrots, and onions.

Also if you're not a tomato fan, try switching to plumb tomatoes, they have more flesh and less acid which is usually the turn off.

bananas with brown sugar, and a dash of cream sprinkled on top, brings me right back to childhood.

>>4256790
>the time spent slicing all of those vegetables just isn't worth the complete absence of flavor they provide.

1. learn to prep
if it takes you that much effort and time to prep some veg you're horribly incompetent
Put a little thought into the nature of the vegetable, taste different parts of it, read up on it a little if you're that dense. It's not hard you fuckwit.
2. If you can't taste vegetables you have no reason to think about tasting anything, because you can't.

I'm kinda the opposite of you, I adore most vegetables but am not a fan of most fruit.

Onion just tastes good in fucking everything, if you don't like onion then you are lost.
Same with potato

Mushrooms are flavourpacked as fuck once you reduce them.

>vegetables
>tomato
With that out of the way, I'm not a fan of uncooked tomato.
Also if you bother to remove the seeds and the skin when cooking them it's probably easier than mismanaging whole tomatoes.

carrots, cauliflower, peppers(capsicum) and green beans are pretty solid in stir fries.

Spinach can be fairly flavour neutral by itself, so you can dress it up with a little bit of whatever and it usually tastes good.

I'm not a fan of pumpkin, mostly because of the texture, but pumpkin soup is fairly simple and has a big taste.

If you're not fond of salads, I strongly suggest Caesar salads.
They can be fairly heavy at times, but a couple of Caesar salads rank in amongst the best meals I've ever had.
They're not too vegetarian but hey, worth mentioning.

Finally remember basic cooking lessons, you do need to know how to treat each vegetable to get the most out of it.
An overcooked vegetable can taste as comparatively bad as overcooked meat tastes compared to the same cut perfectly cooked.

>>4258336
From here actually, anyone want to offer some advice as to how to go about eating more fruit?

I'm quite at odds with the texture of most berries.
Bananas cost a ton where I live.

Most of my application of fruit are apple desserts and citrus in desserts, drinks and eastern cooking

>>4258345

if you don't like the texture try fruits frozen.

>>4258345
what fruits -are- cheap where you are?
peaches and oranges are both good in tangy chicken stirfrys with pea shells and what not..
Can do some sort of fruity steak sauce if you -really- feel the need to use berries, but really I'd only bother using them for flavouring, and only use them if I'm using them for baking small things like tarts.

if you're lucky enough to have decent strawberries IE not apple sized monsters that taste bland, slice them and put them in a salad, or as a desert put them with vanilla ice cream or home made vanilla pudding. (Chocolate is okay, but I just find it overpowers the strawberries)

>>4258390
yes that stir-fry example is part of what I meant by saying that I use citrus in eastern cooking, I'm familiar with fruit usage there.

Thanks for pointing out steak sauces though, I'd long forgotten fruit accompanying western mains in any form. I'll come up with an excuse to cook some turkey soon I think.

I can't really point out fruit availability here; bananas are just the big noteworthy one.
I suppose I do get average use out of the fruit common here at least, thanks for taking the time to respond.

HAVE A BELLPEPpER

learn to make good salsa, then just smother burritos in the stuff... or just eat with chips'
lots of different veggies you can stick in a burrito
fajitas anyone?

my favorite pizza toppings is veggies. pineapple/onion/bellpepper
also make the pizza heavy on suace, thats all tomato and other veggie matter

ITT: /ck/ comes out about not liking good food.

As a previous poster said cut them up

Mix them together with fruits

Add A LITTLE syrup (a spoonful or so in a cup of your delicious starch) or whatever sauce you prefer

Enjoy how fresh it tastes and how you are filling your stomach with low calories

>cooking vegetables destroys the nutritious part of vegetable


Unless you are eating raw vegetables they offer no benefits but cost.

You like hot? Hot chillies are vegetables too. Make them a significant component of your salads.

fuuuuuck I was breathing fire after my salad with feta.

>>4258960
Strawberry onion banana garlic raspberry leek pear dill grapes cabbage syrup.

>>4258979
Everytime i boil vegtables, I use the water I cooked them with and i basically call it vegtabel soup.
Although there is no broth i just eat the vegtables straight from a bowl with the cooking water I used.
I also drink the water. I think this is the only way to save the nutrients that was lost during the cooking process.

Is raw spinach actually good for you? I eat a ton of it with a little vinegar

>>4259020
No? You are killing the nutrients inside of the vegetables when you cook them. They are worthless when they are cooked and I wished people understood that.

>>4259062
I love killing nutrients. Almost as much as I love killing rocks and slaughtering zinc.

>>4259062
are you telling me theres no sense in drinking my vegetable water?

>>4259069
You like vegetable broth? Go nuts. You eat them because of the texture not the nutritional benefits.

Actually, do you completely kill the nutrients or do you just reduce their amount?

I mean, I hate raw onion. Ick. I'd have to force myself to eat a few slices. But I love fried onion. Eating three to five big onions nicely browned is a delight. Do five fried onions contain less nutrients than half of a fresh one?

>>4259066

You should try to communicate with them peacefully.

>>4259062
Bulllllshiiiit.

>>4256790
when making carrots, slow roast them. That will make them supremely soft, sweet, and savory.
Grill you aspergers, it will make them great.
serve squash like you would potatoes; cut them into medium sized cubes and roast them in the oven on a pan coated with olive oil. this will yield the same results as the carrots.
Sautee cauliflower in curry and cinnamon, makes them taste really nice and indian tasting.
Make Kale chips.
Celery is an essential ingredient in many soups, and celery quiche is really good.
speaking of quiche, onion quiche is delicious, especially if you sprinkle in some fried onion bits.
Roast your eggplant and make babaganouch.

>>4258979
>Unless you are eating raw vegetables they offer no benefits but cost.
this cant be true, is it?
what about baking them on a pizza?
or roasting them in the oven to make salsa

>>4258979
>Unless you are eating raw vegetables they offer no benefits but cost.
heres a little three minute read that covers that statement
http://www.thekitchn..
com/fact-or-fiction-microwaving-vegetables-destroys-nutrients-178081
i believe it

follow up question about cooking nutrients.
does the cooking in liquids just sap out the nutrients, or does the actually heat and cooking breakdown the nutrient molocules and what not?

also if the nutrients just seep out while cooking in liquid. well what if im simmering some really watery tomato suace and all the nutrients leak into the juice. well after evaporating the juice, does the nutrients also evaporate or do they just seep back into the tomato chunks/paste?

>>4259586
Some enzymes and other micronutrients die in heat but your vitamins and minerals will just seep into whatever liquid they're in, they won't evaporate