ILX DECIDES THE BEST VEGETABLE: A POLL

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

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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

brussell sprouts are disgusting

yes, to some people. but somehow they all get eaten anyway by others, like me.

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

yeah, and it was otm

potato-based guac or gtfo

respect the poll!

a lot of people didn't vote potato and we should respect their views too, which is why i'm campaigning for a soft vegxit

soft vegxit in a can, no, hear me out

did the idea for mushy pea guacamole idea have it's origin story in that, possibly apocryphal, Mandelson in a Hartlepool chippy incident?

i dunno, the one Han showed me was some kind of Tex Mex-ified fish and chips recipe from a Slimming World calendar

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Never got around to voting, but quite happy with the broccoli/sprouts/cauliflower/cabbage/cavolo species defeating the potato by 15 votes to 9.

move over potato, there's a new tot in town

mmm, salty!

When my food-obsessive Israeli father-in-law got into the low-carb diet, he once went on a deathly serious rant about potatoes, to the effect of "The potato is a KILLER! It is a carb BOMB! NEVER eat potatoes! Never!" The way he pronounced killer "KEE-lehr" still rings in my ears.

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I can't get past calling someone a food obsessive tbh

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