bickster Posted December 8, 2021 Moderator Share Posted December 8, 2021 2 hours ago, Eidolon said: Can confirm, keeps it nice and crisp comparatively too. @blandythe answer to your question lies here The devils alveoli needs to be boiled to within an inch of its life to be edible, otherwise its akin to eating what I imagine the stubborn weeds in my patio would taste like eaten raw I'm ok with other veg being microwaved, sprouts and peas especially, though root veg I prefer roasted 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 I think the only veg I've boiled in years are spuds, and only for mashing. There's nothing more miserable than boiled veg. Blandy's nutrition point is a good one, but secondary to flavour for me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 Cauliflower eaten raw is excellent. In cooking I’m more of a slice it thin and warm it through kinda guy. Boiling vegetables? I mean, I know from the history books that it used to happen. Celery is another one where you want to retain the crunch texture. That always gets added in towards the end, stalk and as much leaf as you can get. Lovely stuff. Had a vegetable chilli last night as it happens. Peppers, cauli, celery, green beans, kidney beans, baby sweet corn, pak choi, very last of the home grown red onions. Just a midweek roundup of everything to hand. Cracking good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bickster Posted December 8, 2021 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted December 8, 2021 24 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Celery is another one where you want to compost it not eat it FTFY 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted December 8, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 8, 2021 Has anyone tried cauliflower rice and is it as utterly horrendous as I imagine? Anyone who actively eats couscous is banned from answering this question as your answer will be irrelevant to me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted December 8, 2021 Moderator Share Posted December 8, 2021 15 minutes ago, sidcow said: Has anyone tried cauliflower rice and is it as utterly horrendous as I imagine? Anyone who actively eats couscous is banned from answering this question as your answer will be irrelevant to me. Its very nice to be fair but so is couscous Winner winner, chicken dinner! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted December 8, 2021 Moderator Share Posted December 8, 2021 27 minutes ago, bickster said: FTFY beat me to it. Sorry I was late. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted December 8, 2021 Moderator Share Posted December 8, 2021 1 minute ago, bickster said: Its very nice to be fair but I like eating sawdust FTFY 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 8, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 8, 2021 1 minute ago, bickster said: Its very nice to be fair but so is couscous Where is @bickster, and why have you hijacked his account? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted December 8, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 8, 2021 (edited) 3 minutes ago, bickster said: Its very nice to be fair but so is couscous Winner winner, chicken dinner! Couscous? Edited December 8, 2021 by sidcow 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 8, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 8, 2021 Crunchy (but not raw) broccoli is lovely 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 2 hours ago, chrisp65 said: Cauliflower eaten raw is excellent probably mentioned it at the time , but a few years ago , but in attempt to be healthier and to move on from eating nothing but meat and sugar I started taking a box of raw cauliflower to work , to nibble on during the day think it was after around 3 days of doing this that I found myself feeling like John Hurt in Alien , my stomach was solid i couldn't move and i was in a lot of pain like I was about to explode ... 5 hours of non stop vomiting later and I still wasn't faring much better so Mrs h made me go to the local hospital ... After much merriment that a cauliflower was trying to kill me ,they gave me something to deflate the stomach and about 6 bags of saline to give me some fluids back . needless to say I don't eat raw cauliflower anymore , 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted December 8, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 8, 2021 3 hours ago, Davkaus said: I think the only veg I've boiled in years are spuds, and only for mashing. There's nothing more miserable than boiled veg. Blandy's nutrition point is a good one, but secondary to flavour for me. my mate boils his sausages with his potatoes and veg in one big pot the heathen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted December 8, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 8, 2021 Couscous is ace. Cauliflower rice is not. When my wife over-steams the broccoli I accuse her of being secretly British. The best way to cook cauliflower is to roast it. Break/cut it up and toss with a little olive oil in a bag . Season and toss again and stick it in the oven 20-30 minutes. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottaloo Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 Hate cooked cauliflower never mind raw 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 3 hours ago, mjmooney said: Where is @bickster, and why have you hijacked his account? He likes couscous and Adam Sandler. I will admit, I'm rocked to the core. My whole world is caving in around me, like Neo in the Matrix. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 1 hour ago, tonyh29 said: probably mentioned it at the time , but a few years ago , but in attempt to be healthier and to move on from eating nothing but meat and sugar I started taking a box of raw cauliflower to work , to nibble on during the day think it was after around 3 days of doing this that I found myself feeling like John Hurt in Alien , my stomach was solid i couldn't move and i was in a lot of pain like I was about to explode ... 5 hours of non stop vomiting later and I still wasn't faring much better so Mrs h made me go to the local hospital ... After much merriment that a cauliflower was trying to kill me ,they gave me something to deflate the stomach and about 6 bags of saline to give me some fluids back . needless to say I don't eat raw cauliflower anymore , I have a mate who currently heads up an architectural practise. A proper stand up good pillar of society. We had to take him to hospital after he re enacted the boiled egg eating from Cool Hand Luke. Except he did it with Cadbury Creme Eggs. Taking a grown up to A&E because of the number of creme eggs in him, and he hadn’t stuck a single one up his bum. Amateur. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 6 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: I have a mate who currently heads up an architectural practise. A proper stand up good pillar of society. We had to take him to hospital after he re enacted the boiled egg eating from Cool Hand Luke. Except he did it with Cadbury Creme Eggs. Taking a grown up to A&E because of the number of creme eggs in him, and he hadn’t stuck a single one up his bum. Amateur. that's a challenge i could go for .. the eating one , not stuffing them up my bum one what made him end up in A&E though , cant be the sugar surely ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 3 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: that's a challenge i could go for .. the eating one , not stuffing them up my bum one what made him end up in A&E though , cant be the sugar surely ? Well, he just basically had the rampant painful gut rot, rock hard stomach. Couldn’t shit, couldn’t puke, getting worse and worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 I've got that annoying cough thing, which sounds WAY worse than it actually feels.. But when I got to open ANY packet of tablets, you can guaran-damn-tee it'll be the end with the instructions on how to take the bastard things is, so I have to go to the other end of the box with my fat fingers to open. That's it really. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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