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.

Gorgeous, this is how I always do ours, having tomorrow with roast chicken

Carrots in any form. They're such a versatile vegetable and I always enjoy them.

Asian-style sticky aubergine. I chop the aubergine and use salt to draw out the bitterness, then dip in cornflour and fry in oil with spring onions and chilli. Chuck on a soy sauce, ginger, garlic, lime and cornflour stir fry sauce towards the end, and serve with sticky rice.

Another vote for cabbage. I love it. Cabbage roll soup, creamed cabbage, kebab shop style cabbage salad (I have been known to eat a bowl of this on its own) Polish braised cabbage, spicy Asian/Indian style stir fried cabbage. I do various rice and pasta dishes with it and even love it just simply steamed and tossed with butter and white pepper.

I also love kale in lots of different ways but my favourite is crispy air fried with sesame oil, garlic ,chilli and a pinch of sugar.

Really recently, I've gone mad for celery (not pregnant) and have incorporated it into almost all of our meals this past week ("80s style salad" with ham, cheese, quiche, beetroot etc, a garlic chicken stir-fry with egg noodles, fajitas and tomorrow I'm going to be cooking honey and mustard gammon with mashed potatoes that are cooked with and mixed with celery and dijon mustard - it's a recipe my uncle tried which I thought I'd hate as I can be really funny over textures and the thought of anything in my mashed potato made me shudder, but the extra flavour was gorgeous.

Going to an Italian restaurant tonight to celebrate a birthday, but would much rather be cooking my gammon and celery/mustard mash if I'm honest.

@TheLadyIsAVamp I like making Swedish cabbage rolls with a minced seasoned pork filling ( lots of cream and white pepper in the mix) - then covered over in a fresh made mushroom sauce with plenty of mushrooms and a dollop of lingonberry jam and mash . Used to make it when we lived in Copenhagen - found it in a Swedish cook book

Fyi savoy cabbage is actually the seaweed in takeaways as far as I know😁

I do love how they cook it though

@Crikeyalmighty that sounds delicious, I've only ever done the tomato sauce style cabbage rolls or an Asian version but will definitely give that a go as I love swedish meatballs which sound similar.

Tender stem broccoli, with loads of garlic and chilli

I love all veg except beetroot, but favourites:
Olive oil roasted broccoli, with lemon, garlic and lots of black pepper
celeriac mash or remoulade
savoy cabbage braised in white wine and butter ( works for fennel or cavalo nero too)
roasted Brussell sprouts with a little chilli

air fried cauliflower with buffalo sauce
aubergine - any way, but parmigiana!
edamame beans
roasted green beans with lemon and olive oil
tomatoes - just with a salt on a sandwich or roasted with basil
creamed spinach

Asparagus when in season - boiled for a bit and then just with salt. So utterly delicious!
Also corn on the cob in the summer - boiled and just with salt!

Potatoes. As Sam says in Lord of the Rings

Po-tay-toes! Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew! Lovely big, golden... chips with a nice piece of fried fish

I also love all veg, not so keen on parsnip, but quite like it in soup or stew. I like eating different veg as the seasons change. I agree with lots of others:
Mashed swede with black pepper and nutmeg
Roasted Mediterranean veg
Roasted broccoli
Artichokes
Spinach in all forms, delicious with scrambled eggs
Cheesy Celeriac mash
Braised cabbage with butter and either pancetta or caraway seeds
So many...

I've never cooked much with cauliflower (scared by bland cauliflower cheese school dinners) - could you share how you roast and with what seasoning please?

*edited to clarify I was metaphorically scarred by badly cooked cauliflower, not scared

Just break it into small florets, toss in a little olive oil and throw in an hot oven in a roasting dish until it’s nicely charred. Toss occasionally. I eat it with a squeeze of lemon, sea salt and a sauce made of light tahini and Greek yoghurt mixed together, but it’s equally good with just salt and lemon.

I was going to say this. I've never met a cabbage I didn't like, even primary school mullered cabbage was wonderful with a bit of salt and pepper. My real weakness is really dark stuff like a good savoy cabbage or kale so dark it's almost black 👌

@TheLadyIsAVamp it really is tasty - you need really good big cabbage leaves - - I make Swedish meatballs too with lingonberry gravy - I think I got that from hairy bikers book

Braised red cabbage

but cauliflower runs a close second

And stuffed, various stuffings i'm going to try a ricotta filling soon, usually I do mince sometimes with rice.

I'm also an odd one, I love sprouts.

Swede cooked in the microwave, scooped out and mashed with butter and black pepper.

Tender stem broccoli cooked in the oven with soy sauce sprinkled on it.

This is poetry- and the three vegetables I was going to say too.

Love this thread- perfect time of year for it if you like growing your own too as you can check you have seeds for all the delicious things mentioned! I'm growing my top 3 above... two are perennial so it's just a case of harvesting and enjoying 😋

Aubergine. I love ratatouille or imam bayildi.

Food of the gods (with lots of salt)

I’ve never tried this!