ILX DECIDES THE BEST VEGETABLE: A POLL

mushy peas would've stood more of a chance if they'd just joined with their snow pea and mangetout comrades on a pea unity ticket. they all lost out through being divided, no-one likes split peas.

exact same story for the sw3eet potato/yam crew.

they all lost out through being divided, no-one likes split peas.

get out

i guess like james ingram said, you should've just had yam or pea there

HUGE GOLF CLAP

Veggie Sticks
(potato snacks)

I made some Bombay style potatoes yesterday, they were boiled in their skins, fried in butter with mustard seeds/cumin seeds, garlic, ginger, onions, tomatoes + extra hot Caribbean curry powder + loads of spices etc. Damn, it was so nice I'm doing it again today.

I want to try that. Is there a recipe online you use?

I can't remember what recipe I started with. But I boil some reasonable sized potatoes in their skins for half an hour. Cube them after they have cooled. Fry the Mustard seeds/Cumin seeds in massive slab of butter, then add potatoes, onions and spices. Sorry I'm no good at this! I bet Suzy has a killer recipe.

that sounds more like onions and tomatoes and garlic with potatoes in it.

why don't you try the recipe four more times and leave out a different vegetable each time, then tell us which one seems most crucial.

No results found for "bombay mushy peas"

I have a can of chickpeas at home and now I have an idea

it's a collaborative effort, as the garlic, onions and tomatoes shrink and dissipate into the potatoes - they become an important part of it, but not necessarily the star attraction!

That basically was a recipe?

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I suppose it was an attempt. Also add Turmeric, Cayenne Pepper and some ground Cumin. Is what I usually do. And I find going irresponsibly apeshit with the butter makes it much unhealthier and tastier.

tombot hardmanning calzino's cooking is one of the more unexpected turns this godforsaken thread has taken

calzino is right - that recipe is specific to potatoes - you could try it with another starchy veg like yuca or something but only the intrepid potato will meet the acid of the tomato & the sting of the onion head-on, laughing, its face to the wind announcing - I am the potato - I have the gumption to weather storms in which my brethren vegetables wilt - fuck the haters, eat some taters

potato will reign always in a pick-one poll because potato goes well with practically anything and if you've ever been poor probably you've gone through whole seasons where in the absence of potatoes it would've been super hard times

i don't know, during my shitty college days when i was learning how to feed myself i pretty much lived on quinoa and lentils, and even though i appreciate those foods and will gladly eat them on occasion to this day, i'm not going to pick them in any poll because 64% of my body was made out of lentils at some point and i've had enough for a lifetime. i imagine those who went the potato route during financial hardships might feel the same way!

i guess this comes down to whether or not we were voting for the one vegetable that we'd want to pick as a practical matter, day-in and day-out, or if we were voting for the vegetable that stands out as especially delicious compared to others for a single meal. like the great ILX reality cooking series, and the special food group for one episode is "vegetable", and you have to choose something from the ingredients in the poll to wow the judges (who, in a cruel twist, is just guy fieri). in that case, even guy fieri is going to be disappointed in "potato" unless you dumb bbq sauce all over it or something

weird typo with dumb and dump there due to the presence of the words guy fieri earlier in the sentence

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beautifully summary there, Owen. hmph! these onion people can be a bit pungent, sometimes.

Some of these online recipes that google throws up are so bad. Putting one clove of garlic into something, surely makes no discernible difference.

depends what it is

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/e1/87/1f/e1871ffa9532f1dc3b402d3637a19524.jpg

thanks for the extra detail calzino.

Essential thread feels like 2012 in here

if by that you mean the apocalypse predicted by the mayans then yeah i cannot disagree

fuck forgot to vote

Specifically tombot hardmanning shadows and jclc writing heroic fiction about vegetables

sorry JMM, my recipe was a bit of a fudge, and jclc's honeyed classicism puts me to shame! I'd put about of inch cube of grated ginger and 6 or 7 cloves of garlic in there, is something I should have added.

Putting one clove of garlic into something, surely makes no discernible difference.

Depends on how you prep it. One clove grated with a fine grater or microplane = the garlic punch of 5-6 cloves sliced/minced.

I use a garlic press usually, which probably has the same effect as a microplane, and have never noticed this effect! I'm down with Maunika Gowardhan when it comes to garlic, don't be shy, 6 or 7 cloves will do.

beautifully summary there, Owen. hmph! these onion people can be a bit pungent, sometimes.

thank you! nb I am not Owen though we are buds, I am his fatter brother from below the northern border

Garlic Poll: More or less, and is William C's bad garlic science a 1st world construct. Where do you stand on this very important question, JCLC?

man that is a huge question. for several years I ate no onions or garlic at all -- as you might imagine, this has resulted in a very intense love for both. still I do think there are places where garlic can be overdone - there's a right quantity in a sauce, unless it's specifically a Garlic Sauce.

but like if it's a Thai dish like Eggs with Crispy Garlic, basically quadruple the amount in the recipe, you will not say "oh no there's too much of this incredible crispy garlic." If you're roasting vegetables, nobody's going to see "you've ruined this by roasting too many garlic cloves to mushy, melting, caramelized brown perfection."

I missed William C's postulate somebody refresh me

"Putting one clove of garlic into something, surely makes no discernible difference.

Depends on how you prep it. One clove grated with a fine grater or microplane = the garlic punch of 5-6 cloves sliced/minced."

No disrespect to William C, because I like his movie posts a lot. But I'm not buying this outright lying and unbelievable, minimalist garlic propaganda!

The facts are on my side, you science denier.

I'd hesitate to gainsay wmc but ..... it is not my experience that the thing he says is in fact so

hmm, ok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Kptp6u4JQ

crispy garlic eh? how does one do this without burning it and getting that bitter taste?

brussells sprouts and broccoli voters = disgusting savages imo

veg otm

beets+cheese. So many permutations. Or maybe just two v good ones.

beets + a blue-veined cheese is ace!

Hannah sent me a recipe for mushy pea guacamole yesterday

That sounds terrible

wrong

Wasnt there some "OMG HERESY!!!!!1" thing about pea guac doing the internet rounds about a year back?

kale's the best

i hate cooking but i will sautee kale with onions