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I just think veggies taste like nothing. Plus they're mostly wet. Also, they give me gas.
Can you give me your secret recipe for making veggies taste like food? Seriously, I dislike vegetables. Before you tell me to grow up, I am 43 and have always avoided rabbit food for as long as I can remember.
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RAW!! :D
I'm sorry, but I absolutely love raw veggies .... give me a heaping plate of raw broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, and raddishes ... and I'm in heaven! :) A bit of low-fat, low-cal ranch dip can also add to it all.
BTW - most food (not just veggies) doesn't have a taste, unless it is heavily spiced.
I dunno how, but I managed to start developing CRAVINGS for veggies once I got on my bike and started pedalling farther distances than I was used to on a daily basis (20-40+ miles 7 days/week). My body didn't take kindly to any other types of foods I tried to stuff in at the time.
hummus, yogurt and spice dip, sauteeing with ginger, garlic, and olive oil. Coating with olive oil again and roasting in a pan - the list is endless.
I just think veggies taste like nothing. Plus they're mostly wet. Also, they give me gas.
Can you give me your secret recipe for making veggies taste like food? Seriously, I dislike vegetables. Before you tell me to grow up, I am 43 and have always avoided rabbit food for as long as I can remember.Pour melted cheese over them.:rolleyes:
What vegetables are you eating and how do you cook them?
If vegetables are giving you gas then you deffinietly need to cook them. I'm deffinitely a fat/protein type of person but I still realy like vegetables if there cooked the right way.
Firstly frozen vegetables are terrible. Tasteless and watery. Are you eating frozen vegetables?
Fresh salad greens are nice in a salad if you add a good quality extra virgin olive oil. Adding avocado to a salad makes it great in my book.
Fresh vegetables are realy nice if they are cooked in bone broth (stock). Start with some onions, garlic and/or ginger and gently brown in butter. Add other vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, squashes, tomato's, etc, etc. Brown a little, add stock, cover and simmer untill cooked to taste. Add a lot of stock to make a vegetable soup or just a little for more of a side dish.
Tomato's make a good base for a vegetable dish or vegetables in coconut cream with spices is realy nice too.
Regards, Anthony
theres a different approach you can take --check out these links -- they are for parents who want to sneak veggies into their kids food. You still get the value, but you dont have to eat a damn stalk of cauliflower covered in some other unhealthy crap to choke it down.
Oh, I also hate the veggie-ta-bulls.
http://www.ivillage.co.uk/parenting/school/schheat/articles/0,,186627_673293,00.html
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/lf_kids/article/0,1904,FOOD_16382_3103342,00.html
hope it helps!
Ranch dressing :D There's always ranch lite with lower oil. Vegetables are boring LOL
A few things.
First of all, don't add too many vegetables all at once and you will have less gas. Liking vegetables is usually based on learning to use spices and seasonings. I can't stand a nude cooked vegetable - but a little salt and a few spices, life is good. I like super fresh raw vegetables - like straight from the garden.
One thing that will help you "choke" down vegetables - go half and half, cauliflower and potatoes for mashed potatoes - if you don't love it, you have no taste buds - imagine guilt free mash potatoes. You can get down to 1/4 potatoes and still have the potatoe flavor and barely (if at all) taste the cauliflower. We server them to guest who say they hate veggies - and they eat a ton - especially when we tell them they can eat a ton - we like garlic in ours with a touch of butter.
The point? Learn to cook vegetables - there are tons of receipes that will make your mouth water.
Aside from using Beano for gas I find lightly steaming helps get them down faster,
You can grill them. Use a hot grill and no oil. Char them lightly and then toss them in some salt, pepper, and herb oil
Basic basil oil:
1c EVOO
1 bunch basil, about 4oz
3-6 cloves fresh garlic
Puree above in food processor or use mortar and pestle.
Veggies which work well using this technique include bell peppers, asparagus, mushrooms, zuchinni, yellow squash.
I just think veggies taste like nothing. Plus they're mostly wet. Also, they give me gas.
Buy better veggies. Fresh vegetables are flavorful and versatile. I like them steamed or grilled in the summer, and in the winter I love roasting them.
Have you ever tried Edamame? That Japanese for soybeans. Most supermarkets, Trader Joes, Natural markets now sell them FROZEN in pod. Just boil them up, drain and then sprinkle w/ salt. Then you eat them... they are a hot veggie... Place pod in mouth and pull out beans w/ teeth. Thow out pod.
Use this as a Replacement for a giant bowl of popcorn or chips- they are fun, delicious, Protien.. I haven't met one person who hasnt like them! And also, it makes you look pretty cool when you get to introduce them to someone else... lol
see here if confused :) http://members.tripod.com/aerogreen/edamame.htm
Green beans with pine nuts and brown butter.
In a pan with salted boiling water cook some green beans until desired doneness.
In a saute pan, add 4T whole butter and allow to brown. You will see the color changing from yellow to golden. The milk solids may brown a little as well. The butter will develop a toasted nutty aroma. Do not let the solids get black! Toss in a few pine nuts or almonds. Add green beans and toss around for until lightly coated.
You won't be eating all that butter, just the very light coating.
To get rid of that cruciferous vegetable smell in Cauliflower and Brocolli, blanch them for one minute in salted boiling water and then immediately plunge them in cold water to stop the cooking.
ALL vegetables give you gas? Highly unlikely. lettuce broccoli and green peppers alone are sufficiently diverse from one another that surely one of them doesn't give you gas...eat more of that family. As for the taste of them, here are two ideas.
1) find vegetable dishes with small amounts of bacon, cheese or mayo (but use a very low fat mayo...nayonnaise tastes like miracle whip but is considerably healthier as its soy based) you can use small amounts of these ingredients to kick the flavor up.
2) salt, pepper, garlic, olive oil and a heatsource can turn just about any vegetable into something tasty.
One popular dish among my cauliflower hating carnivorous step-dad is to break up a head of cauliflower into an 11x17 glass baking dish, apply the above ingredients in number 2 and bake it until the cauliflower is tender enough to eat.
Grow them yourself. NOTHING tastes better than something from your own garden.
+1 on freshness. To put it into a meat persepctive, for vegetables like broccoli and asparagus:
Frozen would be the taste equivalent of a Mcdonalds hamburger.
Fresh from a giant, generic grocery store = gourmet hamburger.
Fresh from a farmers' market = a very nice steak.
Freshly picked from your garden = filet mignon from your favorite steakhouse.
Also, it is pretty clear that you can radically change your taste and cravings. Everything is an acquired taste, and it's 90% mental. After 40 years of eating cereal with milk (and loving it), I wanted to cut back on dairy, so I started using fruit juice on my cereal. It's a totally different paradigm (juice is thin and sweet, milk is thick and creamy). But after about 3 days, I much preferred the juice. And after a couple weeks, I started cutting the juice with water. Now I use mostly water on my cereal and a splash of juice. The point being that it doesn't take much to change your paradigm, but you do have to actively and consciously change it.
BTW - most food (not just veggies) doesn't have a taste, unless it is heavily spiced.
Huh? Lost me here...
Amazingly, I can tell the difference between different kinds of food without seeing what I'm eating. That might imply something about taste...
Huh? Lost me here...
Amazingly, I can tell the difference between different kinds of food without seeing what I'm eating. That might imply something about taste...
And smell, actually.
And smell, actually.
True!
a little evoo on a grill. even a counter top grill is great. i eat the veggie first to get it outta the way and follow up with some PORK!
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Asparagus sauteed with some sesame oil, garlic, scallions. Toss in a splash of soy sauce, top with toasted sesame seeds and cashews. Yum!
Yeah! Sauteed asparagus rocks!!! Here's a recipe I use:
SAUTEED ASPARAGUS & MUSHROOMS
6-12 spears asparagus, trim off thick tough end
10-15 shiitake mushrooms
10-15 large crimini mushrooms
1 clove garlic
1 medium shallot
1/2 inch ginger
2-3 tablespoons olive-oil or peanut-oil
1 tablespoon soy-sauce
1 tablespoon hoisin sauce
1/4 cup water
Remove stems from muschrooms, slice crimini mushrooms across to reduce height by 1/2. Finely mince ginger, garlic and shallot. Heat olive-oil in large sauce-pan on high. Dump in ginger, garlic & shallots, stir briskly until light golden brown. Add asparagus & mushrooms and stir for 1-2 minutes to sear outside. Lower heat to medium-high and add all remaining ingredients and mix. Place lid over pan to steam veggies for 10-minutes. Remove lid and simmer for additional 5-minutes to reduce sauce. Serve immediately.
This low-fat tasty sauce gives the veggies great flavour. You can use brocolli, potatoes, carrots, celery, whatever. You can also make the sauce on its own and sprinkle over salads (add some mint-leaves and little frozen shrimp to sauce). :)
Local asparagus and fiddle heads start soon, I will try your recipe DannoXYZ.
A couple of ideas: I have known people who simply put the most nutritious stuff (that they believe in) all together in a powerful blender, and blend it all into something like V-8 juice. In some cases, it is not very tasty, but they buck up and drink it down. They aren't even trying to make it taste good. For some of them, that is for sissies.
A well-known cyclist, Dan Henry, used to make a green concoction this way, and he swore it played a role in saving his health. There are a lot of phyto-nutrients -- some known and identified, some not yet known -- in vegetables. Greens seem especially nutritious. There are lists of the most nutritious and least nutritious vegetables. Of the top ten that I saw, seven were cruciferous vegetables. The others were carrots, chard and spinach.
Speaking of spinach, I can't stand most salad spinaches, yet I love good frozen chopped spinach when cooked and seasoned properly.
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I once lived with an excellent professional cook. She could make all kinds of vegetables taste far better than what I had previously known. If you can find someone's cooking, or some vegetable dishes (even some of those pre-seasoned frozen ones) that you really like, then you can learn to replicate the successes.
Awareness of the seasonings and spices and flavorings that you most enjoy, and learning how to use them, goes a long way.
Balsamic vinegar mixed with a little light brown sugar is good. There are some excellent sauces. There are recipes for home made sweet and sour sauce that are great.
Some Chinese vegetable dishes are incredibly good. There are websites, books, libraries...not that hard to learn this stuff, really. Once you take the trouble, you can make use of these skills for many years.
RAW!! :D
+1
Grow them yourself. NOTHING tastes better than something from your own garden.
+1 (hard to do in the winter around here, except for radishes)
+11 on raw, home-grown veggies :D
#1: Never buy frozen or canned vegetables. Like never. I mean, why would you?
Buy a vegetable steamer. Steam your vegetable 8 minutes for a starter. That works for most of them. You'll learn to adjust this to get just the texture you want.
Buy only fresh vegetables. Buy organic vegetables if you can get them. Look for a local market or coop or natural foods grocery store. Or ask your local supermarket for organic produce. Chances are good they have organic vegetables already. Would you eat poison for $.50? Think about that. You'll notice they taste better, too.
Dip your broccoli in a little mayo - not Miracle Whip. Put a tiny bit of butter on your cauliflower and peas. Put lemon on your green beans.
Cut your carrots into thin-ish strips and cook them slowly in a frying pan in butter and a 1/2 tsp. honey. Slowly, with the lid on.
Saute snap peas in a little butter and soy sauce.
Cut brussels sprouts in half and cook them slowly in a little butter in a covered frying pan. Cook them until the outer leaves start looking burned. Never let brussels sprouts touch water.
And don't think a little butter is going to kill you. It's good for you. You need fats. Never eat margarine, however. Nasty stuff.
Enjoy. There's a whole world of taste out there.
And don't think a little butter is going to kill you. It's good for you. You need fats. Never eat margarine, however. Nasty stuff.
Word.
Huh? Lost me here...
Amazingly, I can tell the difference between different kinds of food without seeing what I'm eating. That might imply something about taste...
My senses of taste and smell are not well developed. To me, most food tastes the same ... completely bland. I like or dislike food based mainly on texture, and a bit on color, but rarely on taste. My favorite foods tend to be quite salty ... because I can taste salt if there is quite a bit of it, or quite spicy. I'd have to say that Mexican food is probably my favorite food ... it's one of the few foods that actually has a little bit of taste to it. I've just recently tried East Indian food, and I like it too ... it's got a bit of flavor.
Super sweet foods (i.e. icing sugar) or bitter foods (coffee and dark chocolate) also have a bit of taste to them. Could be why I like drinking my coffee strong and black. Anything else could be water for all I can taste.
But that's also why I'd be thrilled with a "meal pill" ... just take a pill a day to provide you with all the nutrition you need, and don't bother with all this eating business. :)
And while we're on the subject of good fats, don't be afraid of a little lard. It has gotten an unfairly bad rap.
Vegetable Tempura - veggies covered in breadcrumbs, then, deep-fried. Dip 'em in soy sauce or some broth. Yummy! Deep-frying may not make 'em healthful though.
Firstly frozen vegetables are terrible. Tasteless and watery. Are you eating frozen vegetables?
#1: Never buy frozen or canned vegetables. Like never. I mean, why would you?
Ok. I don't want to thread jack but I am in the same position as the OP. I want to eat more vegetables but I dont really like the taste.
Now multiple people are saying not to eat frozen or canned vegetables. I started with canned and they were gross and way to salty. I have been eating frozen now and there better but still not that good. What do you guys recomend? Buy them raw/fresh? How long will they last like that in a refrigerator?
Almost all of these recipes contain olive oil, butter, cheese, mayo or something else pretty bad for you. I am trying to lose weight so if possible I would like to minimize these.
So far I have been okay with broccoli and string beans with olive oil.
I would like to start eating salads but the lettuce I buy always sucks. How come if you get from a restaurant there lettuce is so much better? What should I be buying?
Before you tell me to grow up,
Im impressed with your premonition.
Grow Up.
You can make veggies Korean style. For example:
Sesame Spinach:
1# fresh spinach
2-3T soy sauce
1-2T sesame oil
1T toasted sesame seeds
1 green onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1t sugar
pepper to taste
Blanch spinach in boiling water and shock immediately in cold water. Combine rest of ingredients and mix thoroughly.
Olive oil. Garlic. Pepper.
If your tastebuds are dulled to the point of not being able to taste very well, you'd LOVE my mom's meatloaf! :p
My senses of taste and smell are not well developed. To me, most food tastes the same ... completely bland. I like or dislike food based mainly on texture, and a bit on color, but rarely on taste. My favorite foods tend to be quite salty ... because I can taste salt if there is quite a bit of it, or quite spicy. I'd have to say that Mexican food is probably my favorite food ... it's one of the few foods that actually has a little bit of taste to it. I've just recently tried East Indian food, and I like it too ... it's got a bit of flavor.
Super sweet foods (i.e. icing sugar) or bitter foods (coffee and dark chocolate) also have a bit of taste to them. Could be why I like drinking my coffee strong and black. Anything else could be water for all I can taste.
But that's also why I'd be thrilled with a "meal pill" ... just take a pill a day to provide you with all the nutrition you need, and don't bother with all this eating business. :)
My senses of taste and smell are not well developed. To me, most food tastes the same ... completely bland.
We have tons of people like that in Minnesota. They're called Norwegians. That explains their ability to eat lutefisk by the ton. Pepper is spicy for these folks. You'd fit in perfectly. :D
Ok. I don't want to thread jack but I am in the same position as the OP. I want to eat more vegetables but I dont really like the taste.
Now multiple people are saying not to eat frozen or canned vegetables. I started with canned and they were gross and way to salty. I have been eating frozen now and there better but still not that good. What do you guys recomend? Buy them raw/fresh? How long will they last like that in a refrigerator?
Almost all of these recipes contain olive oil, butter, cheese, mayo or something else pretty bad for you. I am trying to lose weight so if possible I would like to minimize these.
So far I have been okay with broccoli and string beans with olive oil.
I would like to start eating salads but the lettuce I buy always sucks. How come if you get from a restaurant there lettuce is so much better? What should I be buying?
Fresh vegetables will last about a week in the refrigerator. Some less, some more. A specialist fruit and vegetable shop/market will usualy have better quality produce that supermarkets.
Nothing wrong with some good, unrefined fat with your vegetables. I've read a scientific trial where they compared salads/vegetabes consumed with or without vegetable oil and when consumed WITH vegetable oil more nutrients were absorbed.
Broccoli and string beans are good although they should be cooked through. Beans that aren't fully cooked REALY give me gas and upset my stomach. Try some cauliflower, zuchinni, carrots, cabbage, chinese cabbage and other asian greens. I cook just about everything with some onions and garlic. I'm not afraid of salt either although I only cook with unrefined celtic sea salt.
Regards, Anthony
Now multiple people are saying not to eat frozen or canned vegetables. I started with canned and they were gross and way to salty. I have been eating frozen now and there better but still not that good. What do you guys recomend? Buy them raw/fresh? How long will they last like that in a refrigerator?
Almost all of these recipes contain olive oil, butter, cheese, mayo or something else pretty bad for you. I am trying to lose weight so if possible I would like to minimize these.
So far I have been okay with broccoli and string beans with olive oil.
I would like to start eating salads but the lettuce I buy always sucks. How come if you get from a restaurant there lettuce is so much better? What should I be buying?Yes, buy them fresh and raw. It's called the produce department in a grocery store. You'll find lots of veggies there. They will last a long time in the frig. Almost all will last a week, some will last several weeks. If you shop once a week, you won't have a problem with veggies going bad - as long as you eat them! Oh, and while you're there, buy some fruit, too.
Yes, it's true that most recipes contain some fat. Fat is not bad for you. It's necessary. 20% of the calories in your diet should come from fat. Just cut down on the overall quantity of food to lose weight.
If the lettuce in the grocery store is crummy, go to a different store. Or try a different kind of lettuce, or both. Try some spinach in your salad, too. Mmmm, blue cheese on spinach salad.
And as I said above, try to buy organic produce. It really is better.
Re: lettuce...stay the hell away from iceberg. its water and cellulose...thats really it. Leaf Lettuces, Romaine and others are all considerably tastier and better for you.
Man, I really hate veggies. How do you make them delicious?Put salt and sugar on them, better yet, bread them in flour and egg batter and fry them. Serve with sour cream, butter and ranch dressing or other sauces...... emmmmmm, gooooood........
Thanks everyone for your recipe ideas. Forgot to mention though that I have acid reflux so onions and garlic are a no-no.
have you tried any of the enzymes, etc for the acid reflux? i honestly don't know if it would help, but maybe?
roasted em baby! Roasted Red peppers (light coat of olive oil) and blue cheese... Mashed sweet potatos... salad w/pine nuts or walnuts or pecans and apple, rasin blue cheese and a light vinegarette (sp???) ...raw carrots.
love it!
for a twist: Check out Maddhur Jaffrey, nobody spices up veggies like they do in the subcontinent!
what about Odwalla Superfood?
what about Odwalla Superfood?
I'm not sure it's relevant to "veggies"... but damn, I love that stuff. It's like soothing, nourishing nectar of the gods. I wish I had a cheap, underground source for it. :p
I prefer to stir fry fresh vegetables (never frozen) I hate elaborate recipes, that's what restaurants are for, or maybe if you have a big family it's worth the time, but for one or 2 people it seems like a waste of time and energy to cook at all! there should be communal food kitchens where people can get freshly prepared food. A few big pots and ovens cooking for 100's for people is a lot more energy efficient than 50-100 small individual stoves cooking
back to the subject though, I take a big cast iron pan, heat it really hot so it's smoking to kill the germs on it (I never wash it with soap) and then rinse it with cold water which gets most of the old oil and grease out, then I put it on medium heat, throw some fresh cut vegetables in with a tablespoon or so of water and cover it for 1-2 minutes. This steams it and turns gray-green broccoli to bright green. Then I remove the lid and make sure all the water has evaporated and throw in some extra virgin olive oil and the put the lid back, removing it every minute or so to stir, and to test with a fork to see if they're tender enough yet. When they're almost done I throw a few dashes of soy sauce into the pan and grind some black pepper on it also and stir it up real good and serve it. I often get pre-cooked chicken breasts and heat them up in a toaster oven and put them on top of the vegetables. This helps keep the veggies warm while you're eating: cold vegetables are kind of yucky. That and a few boiled potatoes or some pasta and I've got a simple yet hot and hearty home cooked meal!
I'm much the same, hate just about every leafy green. However, I've found a great solution - Kale with lemon juice and feta cheese sprinkled on it. Kale is not only one of the best veggies for you (far above spinach or broccoli), but it's also better tasting! Add the other two ingredients I mentioned and it's delicious and extremely nutritious. This dish is my vegetable staple.
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