/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.15690766]

>"No dessert until you eat me"
Should call it blockolli

[Anonymous No.15690771]

You still live with your parents? how old are you dude?

[Anonymous No.15690774]

>>15690771
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[Anonymous No.15690790]

Indeed, broccoli despite how it's culturally depicted is a great and tasty supplement to stews, curries, stir frys and several other dishes, it's negative association is likely caused by poor cooking and seasoning rather than any inherent flaws with the vegetable itself.
Time to dig in!

[Anonymous No.15690799]

>>15690790
Exactly this.

[Anonymous No.15690826]

>>15690790
broccoli is an ingredient and not food on its own

[Anonymous No.15690838]

>>15690826
I dont care about your headcanon

[Anonymous No.15690901]

for me, its broccoli sautéed in butter

[Anonymous No.15690907]

>>15690766
Sounds like something my girlfriend would say

[Anonymous No.15690917]

>>15690790
>escoffier was a bad cook
Yeah, broccoli sucks dude that's why escoffier barely wrote about it.

[Anonymous No.15690938]

>>15690766
if they called it brockloli you might actually eat some don't lie

just put some msg on it.

[Anonymous No.15691352]

tried breaded broccoli once
it was very good

[Anonymous No.15691369]

I can eat a 1lb bag of steamed broccoli in a single sitting. It doesn’t need any seasoning, it’s just that good.

[Anonymous No.15691377]

>>15690766
My parents used to do this, ruined many a Sunday roast when I was a nipper

[Anonymous No.15691542]

>>15690766
Broccoli is fucking amazing. Fuck you.

[Anonymous No.15691604]

Dessert is for faggots and bitches.

[Anonymous No.15691777]

>>15690826
>never had roasted broccoli

[Anonymous No.15691791]

>>15691369
Whitoids pls go

[Anonymous No.15691817]

Funny that was the last thing the mom said to me before I fucked her daughter.

[Anonymous No.15692034]

Make up some fried chikky nuggs coat them in buffalo sauce, put fresh broccoli on the side dip with ranch, based meal, tasty as fuck.

[Anonymous No.15692048]

>>15691777
based, chef.

[Anonymous No.15692150]

>>15692048
>chef
Maybe at TGI fridays.

[Anonymous No.15692162]

>>15692150
sad broccoli hater.

[Anonymous No.15692446]

>>15690766
I think parents doing stuff like this is a major reason why a lot of people are averse to stuff like Broccolli and Brussells Sprouts. They taught dessert as a treat and brocolli as something gross. They taught young children that in order to get to your prize (dessert) you have to go through the ostacle (Broccolli etc) and then just forced them to eat it even if they didn't want to, giving them that sickly feeling.

Its why for a lot of people whenever they get brussell sprouts served to them, they end up with this sickly feeling in their throat, or when they smell them, they start to feel sick. It brings back memories of when you were forced to go through something you didn't wanna eat. Not only that but the young pallet isn't for foods like broccolli which makes it even worse to force a kid to eat them.

Its why when we're adults, and we try broccolli and the like, we end up finding out that we like it, becuase our pallet has evolved by then. Its just convincing people to try it because they just remember that gross as fuck food they were forced to eat as they were kids, and memories of its intense smell and flavour and sickly feeling come up.

That and parents don't know how to cook this shit, they just straight up boil broccolli, no seasoning or anything, no melted cheddar, nothing. There's all sorts of problems with how broccolli and sprouts are presented to kids that makes them averse to them when they're older.

[Anonymous No.15692454]

>>15692446
For me, broccoli and brussels were gross because they boiled or steamed the shit out of them and they had no flavor.

The first time I ever had these roasted, it blew my mind. Now these are the two veggies I eat the most of. Add some garlic and oil and make things delicious before you assume kids just have a mental block about anything green.

[Anonymous No.15692465]

>>15691791
You're feet are gonna go from diabetes first, Jamal.

[Anonymous No.15692512]

>>15692446
Are you stupid? Do you really think letting a kid eat as much chocolate and ice cream as they want is going to work?

[Anonymous No.15692522]

>>15692512
I mean there is an alternative which is dont force them to eat broccoli and sprouts, introduce other far more paletable veggies for children like carrots.

[Anonymous No.15692546]

>>15692522
Sorry, bud. But I'm not making dinner for just one kid. Mom and dad were looking forward to having broccoli and sprouts tonight.

[Anonymous No.15692572]

>>15692512
I was allowed to snack on sweets whenever I wanted and I lost interest pretty quickly, while the kids with harsher moms still would go apeshit for sweets in elementary school whenever they could get hold of any.

[Anonymous No.15692593]

>>15692572
Good for you, I'm sure everyone in the world is just like you.

[Anonymous No.15692606]

>>15692546
Then you just dont put the broccoli and sprouts on their plate then every so often ask if they wanna try.
Of course the better way to do it anyways is to just not steam or boil broccoli so that it doesnt taste like shit, and add some seasoning to it.

[Anonymous No.15692637]

>>15692606
>Then you just dont put the broccoli and sprouts on their plate then every so often ask if they wanna try.
But the bottom line here is that the child eats what's prepared for them or they don't eat at all. Is that correct? Or do you cave in to little terrorist demands and say fine they can have chocolate fudge pop tarts?

[Anonymous No.15692657]

>>15692637
No? You're going with the most extreme result of my point and trying to overblow it. Instead of putting sprouts or broccoli on their plate and making them think its sickly, just put on carrots or whatever veg they find more paletable on their plate. Then when they're old enough for broccoli to be more paletable to them you start cooking it for them and you dont boil it and shit.

[Anonymous No.15692675]

>>15692657
>You're going with the most extreme result of my point and trying to overblow it
You're right. I'm being childish aren't I?

[Anonymous No.15692748]

Rate my stir fry pork and broccoli.

[Anonymous No.15692783]

tastes good man will happily eat

[Anonymous No.15692787]

[Anonymous No.15692898]

>>15692454
Yeah I have no idea why steaming or boiling brocolli became the norm when there are far better ways to cook it. It feels like most people don't discover how good brocolli can be until they're adults and can cook it themselves. Yeah, it blew my mind when I had roasted brocolli the first time too, with a nice cheddar dip. Seriously, if anyone reading this didn't like brocolli as a kid and hasn't had it since, try it this way, more than likely your parents just steamed the brocolli so it just came out chewy and smelly.

[Anonymous No.15692920]

>>15692787
Aside from looks cauliflower and broccoli are nothing alike.
And cauliflower is pretty bland if not breaded or drenched in sauce

[Anonymous No.15693488]

>>15692454
>Add some garlic and oil
Whoa there, sport! We're trying to eat HEALTHY food here, and like this handy chart says, oils and fats should be used sparingly. You can have it boiled nice and thoroughly to kill all those germs, but we'll let you have some salt on it. Just a little bit though, wouldn't want to give you heart disease.
If you eat it and don't complain we can get you a happy meal later, it's all white meat and low in fat so it's good for you.

[Anonymous No.15693501]

>>15693488
i know this is bait, but i really wish people would realize fats are essential and you just need to stay away from using them too much. grains and sugar are the real problem.

[Anonymous No.15693568]

>>15692748
broccoli looks a little overcooked, but looks good otherwise. any rice or noodles with it?

[Anonymous No.15693697]

>>15692920
Kek, being this retarded.

[Anonymous No.15693761]

>>15690790
love unseasoned, steamed broccoli

[Anonymous No.15694052]

>>15690790
grew up as a picky eater, i eat nearly anything now and try to prepare stuff differently but broccoli is the one thing i really just can't bring myself to enjoy which sucks considering its nutrition.
i swear broccoli is one of those foods that have a genetic taste disposition or whatever its called

[Anonymous No.15694071]

>>15691369
Imagine if you actually did something with it.

I always associated grilled broccoli with Men in Black and always asked my dad to make it for me when I watched it as a kid. No matter what time of day it was he'd do it. One time it was 8am and he still fired up the grill and made his stupid kid grilled broccoli for breakfast for Men in Black.

[Anonymous No.15694083]

>>15694071
>I always associated grilled broccoli with Men in Black
what am i missing?

[Anonymous No.15694091]

>>15694052
I know other anons mentioned this in the thread but did you try roasting it? Just cut into florets, sprinkle with salt & pepper, rub with olive oil, roast at 425 for 15-20min, just enough to get crispy and brown in places but not burnt. It smells like ass while roasting but it tastes very good.

Seriously, as someone who always just choked it down out of obligation, discovering this made it become something I seek out, I buy crowns constantly now. I don't know why parents fought with their kids over their shitty broccoli instead of doing this, it's hardly even more work, the only reason I can think of is >>15693488

[Anonymous No.15694095]

>>15694071
Your Dad sounds like a good guy

[Anonymous No.15694098]

>>15694083
I don't know how the two came together honestly. I just always had to have it together. It was my favorite movie as a kid. They don't ate grilled broccoli in it. Guess it was just one of those dumb kids things that gets stuck in your head as a ritual.

[Anonymous No.15694327]

>>15690766
Broccoli is excellent. As I've grown older I've started preferring cauliflower for roasting, but broccoli remains more versatile and therefore my favorite between the two.

[Anonymous No.15694560]

>>15694091
roasted, steamed, fried and so on, i've tried it all, grew up with a father that was an excellent cook, my parents were tolerant and sadly i listened to cartoons and thought a good handful of vegetables were just bad.
when i grew up a bit and tasted brusselsprouts, spinach, broccoli and celery etc. i instantly knew it was mostly because of TV i didn't like them, some of them did taste as a child, but only broccoli has remained so.
i wont 'throw a tantrum' or eat around broccoli if someone serves it to me, but it takes me back to the feeling of eating at a friends house whose parents were bad at cooking, feigning a smile and swallowing the food with as little chewing as possible