What is the best vegetable in the world?

[HighlyVolatile]

This is really a question tapping into the vegans out there who eat vegetables all the time. They are like animals just eating your vegetables and you have to close your refrigerator or else they eat all your vegetables.

But it can also apply to people who aren't vegans because someone told me recently that some people also eat vegetables who aren't vegan. But I would suspect that vegans eat even more vegetables than the people who aren't vegan who eat vegetables would.

So you have to keep the vegetables away from the vegans or else they will probably eat your vegetables. But I would suspect if someone knows what is the best vegetable that it would probably be a vegan because they eat all our vegetables.

[Oigit]

I can't pick just one because it's a three way tie between onions, carrots and celery. There is a reason why onions, carrots and celery is called the holy trinity in cooking. But I think that garlic is right up there with the three as well. Simply because a lot of good foods start it with holy trinity with garlic.

[HighlyVolatile]

I need more experience with celery to complete the Holy Trinity of Cajun/Creole. I don't really understand the point of celery. I understand onions, garlic, carrots (for sweetness). But I don't understand celery.

[Oigit]

Celery helps add moisture and it does play off the flavor of things like olive oil. A good example of it is soffritto. If you are making a marinara sauce with out it the Italian side of my family will probably slap you with a wooden string spoon. That and soffritto can be used as a dip or condiment itself. Just toss in olives, red pepper with some basil and blend it to the consistence you want. You can also vinegar to make it last longer and give it a bit of a twang.

[HighlyVolatile]

What about just frying the veggies in oil before adding more liquid if we're making something like gumbo or soup or stew? I don't understand that either but I am admittedly very stupid! I understand what it does to onions because I've turned onions into brown delicious onion jam with loads of patients nursing them over the pan, adding oil, stirring them constantly. But I don't understand what it does to carrots and celery.

[HighlyVolatile]

* lots of [patience]

[DonkeyDan]

I'm not vegan or even vegetarian, but I do eat a reasonable amount of vegetables, although I still struggle with some. For me the cauliflower is very versatile especially as a rice substitute, it's also great as cauliflower cheese or as a cauliflower soup. It also pairs well with broccoli especially in cauliflower cheese. They are both very nutritious low on the GI, all good things for a diabetic, but they both make me fart 🤣

[HighlyVolatile]

I fart anyway so it's the same, probably! I should try more with cauliflower. You know, some people make a pizza base with cauliflower in place of the flour. But that sounds so awful to me. Maybe it's good!

[DonkeyDan]

That sounds disgusting 😂

[On_cloud_wine]

It’s actually quite taster.. thin crusted crispy cauliflower crust

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

I love Cauliflower,
Cucumbers,
Green Onions,
Eggplants,
Brussel sprouts,
Avocado,
Corn,
Lettuce,
Broccoli

[HighlyVolatile]

Cauliflower is really turning into a huge top suggestion. I think of it like albino broccoli that smells even worse.

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

My mom is a great cook, she often cooked broccoli or cauliflower for us and I find them amazing, I guess it’s about the way it’s cooked.

[TrueConfection]

I will eat all your veggies if you let me (except brussel sprouts). Kale is amazing, but asparagus is my #1 favorite.

[HighlyVolatile]

I love asparagus but that is like an expensive seasonal thing for me in my region/budget. I want to eat buttered asparagus every day. I actually like Brussel sprouts though. :-D

[Aiko_E_Lara]

I have to copy paste in this from a different question. I have lots to list. Squash, pumkin, mushrooms, tomatoes, carrots, radish, spinach, taro leaves, taro, onions, garlic, ginger, galangal, sea weeds, sea grapes, bean sprouts, moringa, wing beans, string beans, bamboo shoots, lettuce, cabage, zucchini, eggplants, broccoli, cauliflower, pepper (technically fruits), tomatoes (technically fruits) ube, ocra, sponge gourd and corn. It's hard to choose

[Aiko_E_Lara]

Some of them mixed makes a really nice vegetable stew

[Aiko_E_Lara]

From the list, id like to think squash, corn, sponge gourd, string beans, taro leaves, spinach, onions and garlic are the best. But the rest are still good.

[Aiko_E_Lara]

Bean sprouts and moringa too.

[HighlyVolatile]

I gotta try squash more!

[LiamSawyer]

The beans are also botanically considered fruits

[HighlyVolatile]

@LiamSawyer Too much nerd for my intents! :-D

[Aiko_E_Lara]

@LiamSawyer I think you're talking about those beans like those beans in a can. Well yeah they're not vegetables but I'm talking about the string beans. The one that looks like asparagus. (I forgot to mention asparagus as one of my favorites) It's the pods that are like the main thing eaten on those kind of beans which is why it's considered a vegetable.

[LiamSawyer]

No I'm talking about the same kind of beans which are seldom referred to as string beans anymore as most varieties are stringless now.

[Aiko_E_Lara]

Not to confuse green beans with string beans tho. I like string beans but I don't like green beans. Green beans sometimes have a texture like grass which you can't chew.

[Aiko_E_Lara]

@LiamSawyer Still a vegetable regardless www.google.com/search

[Aiko_E_Lara]

I mean here it is www.google.com/search

[LiamSawyer]

Botanically a fruit starts as a flower and contains seeds beans start from a flower and contain seeds thus are technically a fruit

[Aiko_E_Lara]

@LiamSawyer But they're considered vegetables google stated just like mushrooms that are technically fungus

[HighlyVolatile]

I was talking about veggies in a double-digit IQ way like in a way that includes tomatoes.

[On_cloud_wine]

Squash, zucchini, eggplant, mushrooms, Carrots, corn, asparagus, zucchini, spinach, and potatoes are my fave

[On_cloud_wine]

Green beans and broccoli.. ok I have no favorite. I love them all

[Genie23]

• Okra
• Fenugreek leaves
• Colocasia and colocasia leaves
• Spinach, etc

I could a big drive a list of vegetables I love and are very good for health.

[Roxxy99]

For me, it’s either steamed broccoli or green beans.

[Apple1996]

Spaghetti squash cause it's natures spaghetti 🍝 😋

[Anonymous]

My wife is particularly fond of zucchinis and cucumbers.

[Xawyx-2]

I like many sorts of vegetables, it's not easy to pick just one.

[Andres77]

Celery has become my veggie of choice.

[HighlyVolatile]

1/3 of Mirepoix -- 33% French!

[Andres77]

Thank you!
I'll try some in the morning.
I have to buy more stuff of all three.
Onion and carrots and more celery.

[erin_ireland]

Tomato

[HighlyVolatile]

That's too easy to say!

[erin_ireland]

But tasty to eat:)

[DaveToo]

Peas, straight from the garden.

[Shamalien]

Broccoli all the way!

[NathanDavis]

KoRn

[moonpie89]

Spinach

[joeldalton]

broccoli.