I like most vegetables, but lately we eat them in salads. Most of our salads contain spinach and other dark greens, but we add carrots, onions, sometimes tomatoes and even fruit and nuts. The vegetables we eat the most, other than salads are broccoli, zucchini and yellow squash as well as asparagus if we can find some that. meet our high standards. Mr. Sohy grows chard and if we can find nice, fresh chard, we buy it as well. Sweet potatoes are also a favorite among the starchy veggies. Just bake them and serve with butter, brown sugar and a little cinnamon. All of my pets love them.
We're not vegans, but we eat lots of vegetables. I've lost my taste for a lot of things as I've aged, but I still love vegetables, especially salads. I also love fried okra but I only eat it in my favorite restaurant that has a lot of traditional Southern food on the menu.
I once made up a recipe that I called okra stew. My former neighbor, who died quite a few years ago at the age of 94, loved it. I thought it was funny that a Jersey girl made up a Southern recipe that was greatly appreciated by an older Georgia girl. The stew is very easy to make. You sauté some Vidalia or other sweet onions in butter or olive oil, add a large can of chopped tomatoes, and then a couple of cups of some fresh or frozen okra. Simmer until the okra is cooked, add a can or package of frozen sweet corn and a can of black beans. Heat until hot. Serve it over rice. I might have added a little bit of sugar to the stew, but it's been years since I made it so I'm not sure. Whenever I made it, I'd give about half of to my former neighbor, who I really loved. She and I used to sit at her kitchen table and make fun of the stories in the Bible. Her daughter was a fundamentalist and sometimes she pretended to believe that shit, just to keep the peace. But, I digress, as usual.
The only way I like green beans is with onions and tomato sauce, although we rarely make it anymore. I had a recipe for that and oddly enough, it was something that my late mother in law also made. I don't like cabbage, other than in Cole slaw, or rutabagas and probably a few other veggies that I can't think of right now.
Anyone else have some easy veggie recipes that they want to share? I'm waiting for the humorous part of the thread.
