More fruits! More vegetables!

[petrea_mitchell]

#51-57:

The local Fred Meyer had canned sliced shiitake mushrooms available alongside the button mushrooms I usually get, so I got a can and tried them out in a stir-fry recipe. I don't think it really worked. Saving the other can to go in a soup, where I think they'll work better.

In another experiment, the SO got to pick a stir-fry vegetable mix out and came home with one that includes red cabbage, kale, and Brussels sprouts. I don't think I've ever had Brussels sprouts before. I also think "red cabbage" is a bit of a misnomer. It's more purple (and it was turning the yakisoba noodles blue).

I made a batch of Irish stew with purple potatoes (did not find out the exact variety).

Then I made a blackberry pie with the same lower-sugar recipe as the blueberry one.

Also I got some dried cranberries to snack on.

Master list here.

Comments

[delosharriman]

There is a German recipe, with probably as many variations as there are grandmothers, for preparing red cabbage. It is boiled, sometimes with wine, sometimes with apples, often (God alone knows why) with juniper berries — I like to use apple cider vinegar if I have any. The colour changes somewhat in the process of preparation, and depending whom you ask, the result is either called Blaukraut or Rotkohl.

[athenais]

Did you like the Brussels sprouts? I love them, but they are a love them or hate them kind of vegetable.

Love 'em or hate 'em?

[lsanderson]

Brussels Sprouts ain't what they ustta be -- they have bred a lot of the bitterness out of them, although that does not seem to have changed much in the love/hate side of things. I have a Japanese salt/soy/sugar with toasted sesame that I really love. You can roast them, shred them, and do a lot with them that you ustta not be able to. My only suggestion is to always at least cut them in half to let the spirit of the angry cabbage ghod out.

Re: Love 'em or hate 'em?

[delosharriman]

I try Brussels sprouts every couple of years, just to be sure. And so far I've never had reason to change my original opinion : everything I don't like about ordinary green cabbage, compressed.

[petrea_mitchell]

I still don't know if I'd like them whole, but sliced up in small pieces I had no problem with them.