Best vegetable (no potato)

[platinumsage]

Actually lots of good vitamins and other nutrients in potatoes. If they were new on the market they'd be sold as a superfood for £5 a tiny box in Waitrose. You need to leave the skin on though.

I thought potatoes were ok as a vegetable until I went to China were they took it so literally as to serve potato stew with rice.

 

[gentlegreen]

Actually lots of good vitamins and other nutrients in potatoes. If they were new on the market they'd be sold as a superfood for £5 a tiny box in Waitrose. You need to leave the skin on though.

The calorific baggage is an issue though
On the other hand, if you're seriously obese, a potato "mono" diet can help get you through the initial stages... and some people reckon they've gone even further ...

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The calorific baggage is an issue though
On the other hand, if you're seriously obese, a potato "mono" diet can help get you through the initial stages... and some people reckon they've gone even further ...

If you deep fry them the calories are burnt away.

 

[Detroit City]

Pepper; everything from ground peppercorns, through hot peppers, chili peppers, to big fleshy ones that can be stuffed, fried, or eaten raw in salads

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[andysays]

I agree on the value of onions andy but my thread my rules, that's just how it is

You're not my Dad

 

[brogdale]

Onion would be the obvious one but I'm also excluding. Vegetable as a standalone meal/side dish

Hold on a minute...plate of Spanish onion cooked in milk, butter and salt & pepper....with some crusty, buttered bread; fucking banquet.

 

[andysays]

My dad's had an allotment for years. When I was younger, if there was a surplus of onions we would often have them boiled whole as a separate veg.

I can't imagine having a surplus of onions, unless the whole allotment was one big allium bed

 

[Spymaster]

Hold on a minute...plate of Spanish onion cooked in milk, butter and salt & pepper ...

Got the recipe for that?

 

[Orang Utan]

I can't imagine having a surplus of onions, unless the whole allotment was one big allium bed

i used to have a surple of them when I lived near Deptford market, when it was cheaper to buy a massive sack of them for a quid, while a small bag cost the sameish from Tesco. Had to keep chucking rotten ones out.

 

[Orang Utan]

Got the recipe for that?

sounds like that is the recipe

 

[Aladdin]

Hold on a minute...plate of Spanish onion cooked in milk, butter and salt & pepper....with some crusty, buttered bread; fucking banquet.

My mum used make this. She used white pepper though.

 

[Spymaster]

sounds like that is the recipe

Bung it all in a pan and boil it up?

Doesn't sound too great though does it?

 

[Proper Tidy]

Hold on a minute...plate of Spanish onion cooked in milk, butter and salt & pepper....with some crusty, buttered bread; fucking banquet.

I had to google spanish onion, had never heard white onion called that

 

[Orang Utan]

Bung it all in a pan and boil it up?

Doesn't sound too great though does it?

that's how i start making a roux for macaroni cheese

 

[brogdale]

My mum used make this. She used white pepper though.

Ha...did I say otherwise?
Trying to catch me out there....no PFWC points lost from me.

 

[The39thStep]

I had to google spanish onion, had never heard white onion called that

Just milder as I recall , some say sweeter . They call them yellow onions or sandwich onions in the States. Tbh any onion would do

 

[andysays]

i used to have a surple of them when I lived near Deptford market, when it was cheaper to buy a massive sack of them for a quid, while a small bag cost the sameish from Tesco. Had to keep chucking rotten ones out.

Obviously not cooking and eating enough onions

 

[brogdale]

I had to google spanish onion, had never heard white onion called that

I've met countrymen of yours who call spring onions "gibbons" ffs.

 

[The39thStep]

I can eat a plate of onion rings , possibly half a plate for fried onions tbh.

 

[JimW]

I thought potatoes were ok as a vegetable until I went to China were they took it so literally as to serve potato stew with rice.

We often have shredded potato as one of the veg dishes Also sliced done with green peppers.

 

[brogdale]

Tbh any onion would do

Controversial.

 

[andysays]

Anyway, I'm glad to see Proper Tidy's thread is now devoted to the mighty onion, despite his ridiculous attempt to exclude it

 

[brogdale]

Bung it all in a pan and boil it up?

Doesn't sound too great though does it?

Try it, then come back here and say that.

 

[WouldBe]

I can't imagine having a surplus of onions, unless the whole allotment was one big allium bed

I think it was more a case of using them before they went off.

 

[Epona]

Potatoes, frozen peas and canned tomatoes are the only veggies I can remember from my suburban 60s and 70s upbringing - perhaps swede on special occasions ...

Ah, this is where being rural had its advantages - we didn't have access to much imported veg (I didn't see a pepper until the late 80s), but we grew a lot of veg so usually had a good range of fresh stuff - also traded with neighbours if they were growing different fruit/veg.

 

[WouldBe]

Dad was virtually brought up on sliced onion and cucumber soaked in vinegar.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Anyway, I'm glad to see Proper Tidy's thread is now devoted to the mighty onion, despite his ridiculous attempt to exclude it

Onions are, as everyone knows, the second best vegetable after the mighty potato.

Proper Tidy is just a wrong 'un.

 

[brogdale]

traded with neighbours if they were growing different fruit/veg.

Yep...but ours was more of a one-way 'trade' with the farmers, though.

 

[The39thStep]

Ah, this is where being rural had its advantages - we didn't have access to much imported veg (I didn't see a pepper until the late 80s), but we grew a lot of veg so usually had a good range of fresh stuff - also traded with neighbours if they were growing different fruit/veg.

I stayed in Harperhey, north Manchester at some friends house in the mid 80s and this was a common experience.

 

[The39thStep]

Dad was virtually brought up on sliced onion and cucumber soaked in vinegar.

Used to have them in the pubs in the North east on Sunday lunchtime