Is there anything you can do to vegetables to make them taste better?

[GlassOnion]

Carrots are pretty obvious: honey glaze them. But what about peas? And corn? And all the other vegetables out there? Anything that can be done to make them bearable?

Best I've found is to put pepper on corn, or do the sweet, creamy corn, but I'm at a complete loss as far as peas and other options go.


Also: are there any good cooking forums people use? I googled for recipes then for a forum and both searches came up rather lack luster. The best forum I found for cooking had the most recent post as a month ago.

 

[eddieq]

Pork and beef fat are always good options.

 

[AGonzalez]

Butter fixes everything GO. Green beans and corn, add butter and garlic salt, also works for peas. Some things are just nasty no matter what, like beets, brussel sprouts, etc.
Broccoli? Add cheese sauce, also works, but not as good on cauliflower.

 

[*blackrose]

Eat them fresh, not canned. I cannot STAND store bought canned corn, or green beans, or peas, or carrots, or anything. And yet, garden picked fresh = YUM.

Corn is cut off the cob and frozen - when we warm up a pan we just add butter, salt, and pepper and it tastes just like corn on the cob only, well, cobless!
The only way I'll eat peas is if they are creamed. Basically, what you would do for the sweet, creamy corn you do for the peas. It makes them yummy.
We cook carrots in a brown sugar sauce, which makes them yummy.
And green beans are best cooked freshly snipped with some bacon for flavor, salt and butter to taste.
Broccolii is good freshly cooked and slathered in melted cheese.

 

[noludoru]

Butter and salt. YUM.

Raw veggies - add dip. Sour cream and onion, ranch, etc.

 

[Beanie]

My fave way to eat sweet corn is to pull the husk back (not OFF, just back) and remove all the silky hair, then pull the husk back over the cob. Grill it with the husk on. Pull the husk off now and eat the *$(@ out of that corn with a little bit of butter and salt. Mm mm mm. The best part is the corn that gets nice and blackened.

The only way I eat broccoli is steamed. I'm not really a fan of other green veggies at all... with the exception of artichokes. Artichoke hearts especially. Yum!

Food.com (used to be recipezaar.com) is pretty much the only place I go for all my recipe needs. It's not a forum so much as a place for recipes to be posted, but they DO have a forum... not sure how much it's used for food talk though.

 

[joce]

I hated veggies for a long time! But I started buying them fresh and it makes such a difference! We grill a lot and have grilled all kinds of things with chicken. I'll just throw broccoli in a pot with a little cheese for a while. There are some seasonings we get for chicken I will basically marinade the veggies in for kabobs.


Asparagus is the only thing I can eat out of a can

 

[SizzleDog]

One word: BUTTER.

 

[GlassOnion]

You know, I honestly forgot about butter. Yes, butter does make a huge difference, just forgot to apply some last night.

 

[Bailey08]

I agree that fresh makes a huge difference. I was never a big fan of veggies (sans dip, lol) until I went to a spa in California where they grew their own organic fruits and vegetables -- it was a revelation! :lol-sign:

 

[Lilavati]

Fresh veggies. Salt. Particularly "Crazy salt"

Of course, the way I eat salt, I would probably dissolve in water.

 

[Dekka]

ya know.. corn is a grain, not a vegetable

but butter. and if not butter then cheese. Cheese solves most problems.

 

[Baxter'smybaby]

I like to use balsamic vinegar to saute green beans with--add some onions and some sliced canadian bacon--delicious!
Other items--garlic, I use Italian dressing to spice up some veggies, but I tend to stay away from peas, and corn. I usually make broccoli, beans, asparagus, etc. I also use spices, lime juice, etc--things to pump up flavor.

 

[Pops2]

try this for corn
1 8 oz block cream cheese softened
1 big can of corn nuked for about 5 minutes
1 can diced green chiles

stir the hot corn & cream cheese together until well mixed then mix in the chiles
if you need more warmth use finely diced jalpenos

for cooked greens bacon grease, lemon juice & hotsauce (also some form of smoked pork while cooking does wonders)
for raw greens (salads) EVO & lemon juice plus herbs & spices of choices
cooked root vegetables (carrots, parsnip, radishes) are best cooked in beef broth w/ garlic, onion or something in that family
some are very good mashed like potatos (rutabaga in particular turnip is pretty good too) in which case be sure to use plenty of butter, sour cream, some crushed garlic & cheese

 

[Xandra]

Have you tried fresh peas? Sooo much better than frozen. There's no comparison, really. I think there is a greater discrepancy between fresh and frozen peas than any other vegetable.

Other than that, I'm no help. I love all fresh veggies. Love artichokes. One of my favorite foods.

 

[*blackrose]

Oh, and fried zuchiini and fried squash...YUM. My dad will also grill them with seasoning, but I don't know what he does. Either way it is yummy.

 

[HayleyMarie]

Add cinnomon.

Mashed Yams taste wonderful with cinnomon it them... hmmmm Yamm!!!

 

[mjb]

Pan fry corn kernels in a skillet with butter and seasoned salt and garlic powder.

The only way I know how to do peas and beans is to cook in water with seasoning (pork fat is what my mother used....I have found some ham flavoring or chicken or beef bouillon works well).

As for other vegetables, green peppers, onions, okra, green beans, yellow and red peppers, mushrooms, etc., etc. chop them, drizzle in olive oil, season with salt, seasoning salt, garlic powder, black pepper, any seasoning that suits you, and roast in the oven for about 25 minutes at 425. The mushrooms don't need this long. Yellow squash and zucchini work well this way, too.

 

[darkchild16]

I use for green beans either
Salt pork with pepper

or Butter, Basil and Garlic

Broccolli just gets butter here

Corn is microwaved with butter salt and pepper

thats about all we do in the veggies here LOL We are pretty boring with them but they all taste good and I never have complaints from the kid who i had to force feed veggies when we all started living together.

I also ALWAYS use frozen or fresh NO NO NO NO canned.

 

[ACooper]

Wait.....nobody has said it yet? NOT EVEN NOLLY? WTF??

Fine

I guess I have to be the one...




















BACON!
wrap everything in bacon because everyone knows bacon makes everything edible!