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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
One word, in this place, respecting asparagus. The young shoots of this plant, boiled, are the most unexceptionable form of greens with which I am acquainted.
Two of the most nutritious plants in the world - lamb's quarters and purslane - are weeds, and some of the healthiest traditional diets, like the Mediterranean, make frequent use of wild greens.
Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food.
Ragweed,wild oat,vetch,butcher grass,invaginate volunteer beans,all heads gently nodding in a morning breeze like a mother's soft hand <>ong>onong> your cheek ...
Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them.
The fumes of cruciferous vegetables, roiling in plastic bags. Nothing
mushroom pie stuffed with spinach, thyme, and currants.
I'm hungry enough that I started to salivate at the sight of lettuce. I repeat: lettuce.
Potatoes at six o'clock, Marie. Mushrooms at three. Now?
Chard and kale are my favorite these days.
Sustainable scallops with a mirepoix of carrots, celeriac, shallots, and bell peppers and a sesame oil dressing. The recommended accompanying beverage is pinot gris.
Cucumber reminds me of my mother making me eat sprouts.
Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
It's a lot harder to get people to 'ooh' and 'aah' over beets and carrots than it is to get them to 'ooh' and 'aah' over artichokes or asparagus, and I enjoy being able to take these humble, 'lowbrow' foodstuffs up a few notches and serve them with great exuberance.
When life hands you wilted lettuce, make lettuceade.
I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.
If there are weeds in my garden, I have a problem. But it does not lead me to question the existence of lettuce.
panchitos, blacks,
Lima beans, watermelons, potatoes, eggplants, and cabbages are among the many other familiar crops whose wild ancestors were bitter or poisonous, and
How do you eat your roots?
Red beans and ricely yours.
I chop 'em into salad and my name ain't Caesar.
From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.
(Potatoes were, for some reason, more prone to fits of random magic than most vegetables. It would take a remarkable magic to affect turnips or kale. No one bothered planting eggplants - they would run into the woods or fly away on leafy kites the instant your back was turned.)
I don't really like vegetables. But I'll eat them.
Beat sprouts, I croaked, ashamed I'd reached a point in my life where I had to make decisions like choosing between bean sprouts or potato chips (and then going with fucking bean sprouts!).
strange and imported foods.
looking for the pi in my onion
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
The stealing began again with carrots, which apparently are the gateway vegetable, because soon it led to all manner of produce theft.
(Health 5) Carrot
I turn and run, watching my feet trample a massacre of weeds. I mourn them. The only thing that grows is dandelions in the cracks of the sidewalk and we always end up killing them.
porcini-asparagus
I don't do carrots.
Red Delicious apples, whose misleading name is a travesty.
Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.
Salad, I can't bear salad. It grows while you're eating it, you know.
The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.
fresh calves liver, some onions, a little gravy, and some fresh spinach.
Beth, eat your greens. They're good for you. Come on, eat your peas."
"I don't want to," she whined, and we turned to watch her push her plate back. "They're little fuckers.
I grow vegetables - I'm a vegetarian; I've got strawberries, artichokes, leeks, broad beans.
Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.
A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats.
Substitute any vegetable that grows with its leafy head aboveground for another: a flower for a flower, a root for a root, shoot for shoot, stem for stem, tuber for tuber. (No rules apply to beets.
The Produce Gem grins from half-way down the chip aisle. "And I thought the cucumber choosing was detailed."
Cash.
He was watching.
He saw me breaking it down.
He saw my invisible bad summer-time fashion choices.
I saw a woman wearing suspicious lettuce!
Carnatur, eh? What are they man-eating daisies?
I think pickles are cucumbers that sold out.
Sweet potato fries
Let there be another lettuce!
A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.
Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.
the best choice we have on the menu tonight.
Good garden of peas!
Pray how does your asparagus perform?
One man's poison ivy,is another man's spinach.
It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.
Are asparaguses just artichokes that haven't grown properly? Like they started smoking and got really skinny, like supermodels? *
I prefer men to cauliflowers
Hops are a wicked and pernicious weed.
Spare feast! a radish and an egg.
Sometimes I think my soul is full of weeds!
The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. The next best vegetable is the jalapeno pepper. It has the virtue of turning salads into practical jokes.
sliced into ¼-inch pieces 1 carrot,
My mom's collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I'm not just saying that because she's my mom. She's got some Mississippi secret. I could seriously eat them every day.
It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
They've outlawed the number one vegetable on the planet.
They were frightening enough, but Tessa could not help but feel that if Will were there, he would have commented that they looked like turnips, and perhaps made up a song about it.
Peas went with carrots as infallibly as ham went with eggs. For years I thought carrots and peas grew on the same vine.
Cucumber. The cucumber is just a pickle before it started drinking.
In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has
Green eggs and ham...
What a rich book might be made about buds and, perhaps, sprouts!
I have so many liver spots, I ought to come with a side of onions.
I used to be into 'forbidden fruit', but I've moved on to'verboten vegetables
The local groceries are all out of broccoli, loccoli.
Tomato and lettuce-especially lettuce-is an abomination.
These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp.
Beans are a real go-to for me.
Baby carrots are making me gay.
If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.
Somebody has been fuckin my watermelons.
Today a potato, a tomato, some wheat, lettuce, rice, a banana, and blueberries lost their lives for my sake.
The answer isn't another pill. The answer is spinach
By July we had strawberries, red currants, raspberries, veal, dill, baby turnips, marrow. Mussolini resigned, and Italy capitulated. Roses could be had.
I like anything that's edible ...
I like to pick my own vegetables.
Weeds don't know they're weeds.Weeds-- John Updike
He thought cucumbers were good enough, but pickles were delicious - so absolutely delicious, in fact, that he questioned whether they were, indeed, made from cucumbers, which were only good enough.
pickle juice on a cookie.
I don't eat vegetables. I only eat food like cheeseburgers, Spam, hot dogs and pizza.
I love to eat lettuce for breakfast, they call me bunny.
I slice up a ton of cucumbers, celery, carrots and red and yellow peppers. Keep them in your fridge so you always have something handy to curb your snack attack.
The parsley sinking into the butter on a hot day,
Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain.
I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.
Heaven is a homegrown cucumber
You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.
I know the pleasure of pulling up root vegetables. They are solvable mysteries.