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 Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:56 pm
I am currently puzzling over the notion that the only place for greens in a meal is in a raw salad.
I was completely unaware of how few vegetables actually go into the typical meal of an American household until I came across various comments where the vegetable content of a meal seemed a slapped on after thought (in the form of a bowful of uncooked, relatively unadulterated raw plant material and bottled dressing) to platefuls of carbs and proteins.
Now I rather dislike raw salads, and I wonder how many people actually do like the grassy cow-cud taste and feeling of chawing on a mouthful of raw greenery...
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Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:13 pm
Sai-kun I am currently puzzling over the notion that the only place for greens in a meal is in a raw salad. I was completely unaware of how few vegetables actually go into the typical meal of an American household until I came across various comments where the vegetable content of a meal seemed a slapped on after thought (in the form of a bowful of uncooked, relatively unadulterated raw plant material and bottled dressing) to platefuls of carbs and proteins. Now I rather dislike raw salads, and I wonder how many people actually do like the grassy cow-cud taste and feeling of chawing on a mouthful of raw greenery...
There's a baby spinach salad I make with a lemon/red wine vinegarette with grilled lemon-garlic shrimp that is absolutely delicious.
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Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 4:50 pm
I say it depends what goodies you put in the salad. Such as avocado. Makes any salad just peachy. I also like meat in my salad.
But my mother was always a stickler for veggies with every meal. So she'd usually make us something. I think broccoli was her favorite to cook. It was always my favorite to eat. Asparagus is good too. Mmm.
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:47 pm
I like vegetables just fine, but I'm convinced that there are better ways to include vegetables in your diet that don't mean dumping a bag of lettuce into a bowl and setting out some bottled dressing.
Its pretty easy to do something snazzy with meat, it seems, but just from observation, it seems that people find cooking veggies an after thought, and I find that kinda sad.
Maybe veggies wouldn't get such a stereotypically bad rap...spinach, brussels sprouts, broccoli...always the brunt of unappetizing food jokes...if people actually bothered to prepare them right.
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Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 2:10 pm
My mom outdid herself last night with dinner :O
We had chicken + fresh shiitake mushrooms marinated in a light ginger, sesame oil and rice wine sauce, all steamed over rice, cooked in our new big stone casserole (a Korean gopdol, or stone bowl, rice in direct contact with the bottom of the bowl gets crispy toasty, so its an extra little treat after the rest of the rice has been scraped out).
She also made soon dubu (Korean tofu stew) with leftover kimchi, silken tofu and seafood.
And as a veggie, she stir fried green beans with shallots and pork. Mmm...suffice to say there were no leftovers!
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:27 am
Sai-kun My mom outdid herself last night with dinner :O We had chicken + fresh shiitake mushrooms marinated in a light ginger, sesame oil and rice wine sauce, all steamed over rice, cooked in our new big stone casserole (a Korean gopdol, or stone bowl, rice in direct contact with the bottom of the bowl gets crispy toasty, so its an extra little treat after the rest of the rice has been scraped out). She also made soon dubu (Korean tofu stew) with leftover kimchi, silken tofu and seafood. And as a veggie, she stir fried green beans with shallots and pork. Mmm...suffice to say there were no leftovers!
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:54 pm
Yeah I can't eat a "raw" salad with out meat or seafood in it. Though I do love corn and bell peppers as far as other veggies. We always have at least one veggie with out meal even if its just mashed potatoes. Though why not try making like a lettucey wrap thing I can't think of the name of the top of my head I'm a new kid on the foodie block.
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 2:54 pm
I like to jazz up some asparagus by wrapping it in prosciutto or bacon. Great way to make it non-healthy. (Unless the bacon is in moderation)
I like eating baby spinach in a salad, but it's also great in a panini, omelet, and a chicken pizza!
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 6:14 am
Someone decided we'd be making a pot-lock (is that the right word? Anyways, everyone brings some food to share) during our whole-day theater practice.
Somehow, I ended up blurting out that I'd bring some home-made dessert. Only to remember afterwards that I don't have a real kitchen to speak of. (I don't count a toaster-oven, even a convection one, as something you can bake stuff in... It's just to small. I'm not gonna bake 6 cookies at a time.) So now I have to somehow invade my sister's kitchen for one evening to make chocolate chip cookies for next Saturday. ><
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 5:10 pm
I love vegetables either as a raw salad or cooked meals.
But it's true that a lot of meals have vegetables second before the proteins and carbs, but there are some that are the other way around.
Sadly though, I think a lot of people just find it easy to have salad than cook it with something. Haha, like me. XD
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Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 1:24 am
I'm one of those that has to have croutons in my salad. Leafy greens on its own doesn't excite me for some reason. Personally, I prefer to have some protein mixed in with my vegetables. Humans are omnivores after all.
The thing that gets to me is that leafy greens (a.k.a. "ruffage") is usually meant to clean out your system. Why salads are served first before the meal is beyond me.
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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 3:21 pm
I love meat blaugh haha I like steak, pork chops, bacon, kalbi (short ribs), spam, etc. I also love frutis blaugh such as watermelons, mangoes, strawberries, apples, cuties, and oranges and probably other stuff too that I can't remember right now. Sadly I have not a strong liking to vegetables razz I'll eat salads and carrots that's about it haha
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 1:32 pm
Anyone have a favorite recipe here? I use the chicken teriyaki recipe all the time. Like, last night.
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 11:04 pm
Salad as Americans know it can be rather one-dimensional, but they still exist because they are easy to make. I like to experiment on occasion with different salads. I have an excellent recipes for a 4-ingredient salad that has no lettuce in it, a green (usu. spinach) salad, a salad with (cannellini) beans & green beans in it, and an Asian salad that tastes kind of like biting into an eggroll/springroll...
A meal currently available in my refrigerator: pasta salad. Not only is the tricolor, but it's packed with veggies, and even a bit of cheese and meat!
My favorite way to cook vegetables is to roast them. It's one of the few ways I'll eat Asparagus without gagging, and it brings the veggies I do like, such as tomatoes & peppers, to an even more awesome level of flavor.
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