{"id":10530,"date":"2010-02-09T11:03:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T15:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=10530"},"modified":"2010-02-09T11:03:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T15:03:58","slug":"tuesday-tip-eat-your-veggies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2010\/02\/tuesday-tip-eat-your-veggies\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Tip: Eat Your Veggies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ever meet one of those people who hates vegetables?\u00a0 Or they only like certain vegetables like corn and potatoes?\u00a0 Or they come back with, “Yeah I had that once and didn’t like it.”, therefore totally dismissing the veggie never to try it again.<\/p>\n

I’ve come across many people like this.\u00a0 Most of them are very hard to convince to try something.\u00a0 Shaking their head and pushing it away like they’re a toddler.<\/p>\n

What I want to tell them is try the veggie again using a different cooking method.\u00a0 Different cooking methods bring out different tastes in the vegetable.\u00a0 Roasted cauliflower tastes totally different than steamed cauliflower, which tastes totally different than boiled cauliflower.<\/p>\n

The best example I have for this situation is the relationship between me and carrots.\u00a0 Oh cooked carrots were vile vile things.\u00a0 Mushy and totally flavorless unless you were lucky enough to get some that tasted like basement.\u00a0 Mmmm tasty!<\/p>\n

But raw carrots I love!\u00a0 Love them!\u00a0 So I thought, “Andrea this is ridiculous, you love carrots so there must be a way to enjoy cooked carrots.”\u00a0 And I worked on it till I found out what I liked.\u00a0 I love roasted carrots.\u00a0 I also love carrots that have been roasting with something else, like a chicken or porkchops.<\/p>\n

My point being that before you write-off a vegetable completely give it a few chances to woo you.\u00a0 And yes I’m realistic, I know there are going to be some things that no matter what, are not going to be tasty.\u00a0 We all have those!\u00a0 Mine tends to be mushrooms even though they are not technically a veggie but a fungus, they do seem to be included in all veggie things.\u00a0 Have you noticed that?\u00a0 I hate mushrooms and even covered in glorious cheese, I find them repulsive.\u00a0 I don’t mind cooking with them and have no problem picking them out of something because their taste doesn’t affect the overall dish to me.\u00a0 Unlike olives, for example, which corrupt everything they touch.\u00a0 Ick.<\/p>\n

When I purchase a veggie that I have not had before I tend to go with the roasting method first.\u00a0 I really like roasted veggies and it’s the safest technique for me to try out.\u00a0 Unless it’s greens, then I go the soup or noodle dish route.\u00a0 Doing this\u00a0 introduces me to the veggie and tells me about it’s taste and texture.\u00a0 Then once I have that down I can play with the veggie a little bit more figuring out how I like it and how I might not like it.<\/p>\n

So many people claim to not like veggies or they have a huge list of veggies they don’t like that it makes me wonder if they’ve really given the veggies a chance?\u00a0 If you’ve only ever had jellied cooked carrots that your Aunt Peggy makes for every family function, then how do you know what a cooked carrot really tastes like if you’ve never tried it outside of that one dish?\u00a0 Give veggies a chance!\u00a0 Expand your palate and try cooking the veggies in different ways.\u00a0 Maybe you’ll discover a new love!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever meet one of those people who hates vegetables?\u00a0 Or they only like certain vegetables like corn and potatoes?\u00a0 Or they come back with, “Yeah I had that once and didn’t like it.”, therefore totally dismissing the veggie never to try it again. I’ve come across many people like this.\u00a0 Most of them are very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-2JQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}