What is your favourite vegetable and favourite was of cooking/eating it

[SunnyWithAMeatball]

My favourite vegetable is artichoke. My local Italian restaurant has a vegetarian pizza with artichoke which has to be one of my favourite foods ever.
The canteen at work does stir fried artichoke as a side dish option and I make a point of eating in the canteen the days that it's on the menu which is not often enough iny opinion.

Never got round the challenge of preparing artichokes at home though. I need to have a crack at it and see if I can get the hang of it.

Anyone else want to share their favourite vegetable? Trying to eat my vegetables and get some new ideas.

How do you stop your brocoli being too greasy? What's your best method for roasting it? I've only made it nicely once and never been able to replicate it.

Recipe please!!!😋

Artichokes are delicious. I have memories of holidays in France, buying them from a market, boiling the whole artichokes up, then sitting outside on a warm evening, pulling off each petal, dipping it in a vinaigrette and running it through your teeth to get the soft inside, all the way to the choke, then scraping off the hairs to leave the delicious heart which you eat with more vinaigrette, wiping the plate with some baguette, just fabulous.

My favourite veg are asparagus and celeriac, cannot choose between them, but I only ever buy British asparagus so it's a very short season. I steam them then have the spears on their own with a drizzle of vinaigrette, perfect. Sometimes I grate a bit of parmesan on top. They are delicious roasted or put on top of a tart with Parma ham.

Celeriac is fabulous pureed with butter and a bit of cream, or roasted in the oven or made into soup, also wonderful raw as part of a coleslaw or as celeriac remoulade.

Fennel - rarely but it now as it is so expensive

Mushrooms any which way

Savoy cabbage with garlic and lemon juice

Asparagus, on the bbq but only when in season

Broccoli and tenerstem, roasted, steamed, boiled don't really mind as long as it's
Not soggy.

@OhMaria2 this is the recipe I use. It's a lovely side for a roast dinner, but I have been known to eat it on its own for lunch 😋
www.allrecipes.com/recipe/245996/braised-cabbage/

Sweetcorn, fried in butter and garlic in the pan I just cooked the chicken in 😍😍😍

The first time I'd ever tried artichoke was at my in-laws before they became in-laws, and they boiled them up in salted water with lemon juice and served with hollandaise sauce. We dipped the leaved into the sauce and then scraped the fleshy bit out with our teeth. It was a faff but so delicious!

I'm not sure I have a favourite vegetable but I love this way of cooking potatoes that Mary Berry does in her potato and fennel gratin. I use onions instead of fennel as dd doesn't like it, and even garlic hating dh loves this dish.
My ultimate potato dish would be dauphinois or boulangerie.

Thank you! I'm in bed so ill I can't eat a thing but I'd crawl up a mountain for that!

Crown prince squash. We grew a load of them this year. Cut into thick slices and roasted with skin on in olive oil is delicious.

We also grew a load of globe artichokes and I love those too, but they are a faff to prepare. I need to come up with a better way next year.

Leeks , don’t care how it’s cooked .

Sprouts I adore ,also love celariac mashed with cream and butter
I dont like plain carrots but I've done them with cream and butter topped with parmesan cheese and they (to me !) taste lovely .

I can't pick just one.

Leafy greens - cabbage (especially Savoy), spinach, Brussels sprouts, cavolo nero, pak choi, even the leaves off a cauliflower, I'd happily add any of these to any meal.

Broccoli and Romanesco too. I don't mind cauliflower but only really in cauliflower cheese.

Mushrooms too (in fact mushrooms and spinach in a creamy sauce is a fave of mine with pasta, just a shame no one else in our house likes it).

I also love sweetcorn and corn on the cob. If we get a KFC I will eat more corn than I do chicken.

I like lots of veg and prefer many of them raw. Carrots, obviously, especially if grated with lemon juice and olive oil, but also raw cauliflower (great to dip in hummus or eat with blue cheese/sour cream dip) and raw brussels sprouts (very finely shredded) or raw young kale. And chicory and fresh crisp watercress. And radiccio....

Old fashioned French deli celeriac remoulade also takes a lot of beating, and, like the OP, I'm very fond of artichokes. Pommes dauphinoise is terribly indulgent but very good. So are simple baked potatoes. So many veg are delish - can't choose a favourite.

Oh I forgot celeriac. Mashed or pureed I prefer it to potato, but I also make a lovely celeriac and apple remoulade which I think is so much nicer than coleslaw.

Please could you tell me how to do the apple and celeriac remoulade thx

Frozen peas. Boil water, chuck in peas, wait 5 minutes, job done.

@Xatz63

This is the basic recipe I use. I add more apple and mayonnaise though, if I'm making it for a family thing then I leave out the dill as my SIL hates it. It's nice with other herbs too depending on what you like but great without, or any other seasonings you like. I always use Granny Smith apples too, usually 3 (sometimes 4 if they're a bit smaller but I also eat chunks of the apple as I'm chopping it ).

https://www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/vegetarian/celeriac-and-apple-remoulade/

Thankyou such I love dill ! My favourite herb ! I'll be shopping tomorrow x

With a knob of butter 😊

I love cauliflower all the ways.
I'd have said asparagus as I do love it but it isn't as versatile and has such a short season. DS will say asparagus though, as (even as an adult) one of his favourite meals is soft boiled eggs with asparagus and melted butter instead of buttered soldiers.

Asparagus, freshly harvested, no more than an hour from plot to plate.

(Except it rarely makes it to the plate as I eat my portion with my fingers when I’m supposed to be playing up dinner for everyone)

Steamed and with hollandaise, roasted with lemon juice, baked in foil with butter and lemon, charred on the BBQ, diced and in a risotto, lightly steamed spears with a soft boiled egg, in a quiche with salmon, with ricotta and lemon in a tart, made into cream of asparagus soup when it’s gone a bit woody… I love it all the ways I have had it.

Happiest 8 weeks of the year, asparagus season.

Sprouts are delicious roasted in a bit of oil and balsamic vinegar

Savoy cabbage with butter and black pepper

Sweet potatoes baked in their skins with a dollop of soured cream and a mango salsa with red chillis

Surprised to see cabbage being mentioned so much. I will have to get a cabbage with the next weekly shop. I don't think I have ever bought one. The few times I have had it, I remember liking it but it does have a poor reputation which has always made me favour other veg.

I'm hungry now. 😄

Carrots in honey and mustard or thyme.
Broccoli roasted with garlic.
Leeks in vast amounts of cream.
Fried or stuffed mushrooms.

Most veg if it's roasted or cooked well tbh. I was put off a lot of vegetables in childhood because they were boiled and tasteless. Not a cabbage fan though.