is it me, or is aubergine a bit marmite-y?
I mean, I'm not an especially big fan of carrots, but I don't exactly gag when presented with them. Aubergine, however, seems to provoke a more extreme response.
This is an important question, so tell me: what do you think?
At least its not a mushroom.
Depends how it's cooked really can end up with a slime and shiny combo which doesn't work, chopped fine and stewed it's OK
I struggle to figure out exactly what aubergine is made of. Surely if we were supposed to eat them they would be made of food. But I’m not totally sure they are.
No, No and more No...Carrots on the other hand, lovely!
Sorry....thought this was going to be another thread about....Trump
Mushrooms aren't vegetables.
I know what you mean about aubergines through, but the wife loves them so I'm getting to like them.
Really not very nice at all not like carrots or mushrooms.
Aren’t they a fruit anyway?
I'm not a vegetable fan, but most can be made reasonably palatable if you cook them a certain way which is usually not the traditional way. Aubergine however is never nice. I've had it pan fried boiled and stewed, and it's never that nice.
Nice in thin slices in a lasagne......mmmmm.
Broccoli on the other hand, wt genuine f's THAT all about? It mingeth, big time.
As do bananas, which I'm convinced are squeezed out of monkeys.
If it wasn't for bacon, I'd be having a serious chat with the letter b when it comes to food....
I like aubergine, when it's soft not when it's gone to slime. Also, not when it's gone cold.
Looks nice and shiny so gets purchased, then WTF do you do with it? It's just a sponge that sucks up anything near it.
most can be made reasonably palatable if you cook them a certain way which is usually not the traditional way.
Errrrrr! Ermmmm! No sorry you’re going to have to explain that one.
Look, no one likes vegetables. They aren't even good for you. The whole 5 a day thing is just propaganda spread by an underground network of intelligent pigs. What happened to the pigs from that Animal Farm documentary eh? And now all that "bacon causes cancer" thing... Makes you think doesn't it?
As do bananas, which I’m convinced are squeezed out of monkeys
I can assure you that is not the case 😄
My old fella worked for a big wholesale fruit company, so I had unlimited access as a kid.
I used to love the refrigerated banana store. Huuuge place in Manchester's Smithfield Market.
It's true about the spiders. They'd be dormant whilst in the cold store, but when brought out to be packaged and boxed you could hear the screams all over Openshaw. 🙂
Aubergines are ace. Have you not heard of babaganoush or Otto Lenghi? People come on .
Ye gods you lot, fussing over veg is such an affected schoolboy nonsense! Were you given pork pies as dummies when you acted up around cabbage?
What to do with aubergine? Sliced and roasted/grilled with olive oil and sea salt. Whack it on a panini. With melted goats cheese and fresh basil. Sliced toms. Flipping lush.
Baba ghanoush? Not my fave but it might be yours?
Moussaka?
Now, what the hell are beansprouts about? What does one do with a beansprout? Alfalfa? WTAF!! Sounds funny, and it's green 🤤😬😬😬😬🙄
I've had amazing tasting aubergine but they were stuffed (mostly not with aubergine)
Aubergine - chop into chunks, lightly coat with oil then coat with flour. Then bake.
Caponata (aubergine stew) is the dogs danglies, I could eat it al day!
I don't know exactly what they do at David Bann's to make the aubergine into meat, but it's miraculous.
babaganoush sounds like that thing out of a kids book that terrifies the **** out of me.
Still preferable to anything with aubergine in though.
As far as Saxonrider threads go, this vegetable thread is straight up 🔥 🔥
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My speciality used to be a sort of stuffed aubergine thing.
Scooped out flesh, chopped and roasted along with some other choice veg, topped with cheese.
The ladies were well impressed.
Aubergine is lush. You just got to know how to cook it.
Fine in ratatouille, turns everything else it touches into ming.
Aubergine is lush. You just got to know how to cook it.
Seems that you have to hide the flavour going of your recipe
Aubergine is the king of vegetables.
I’ll see your aubergine and raise you a courgette. The most foul and heinous of vegetables. They are a waste of photosynthesis in my opinion.
I might have read somewhere that you should slice aubergine and then soak in water for a bit to get rid of the bitterness, or maybe I made it up.
chopped fine and stewed it’s OK
Stewed? STEWED? Sweet baby Jesus, who in their right mind stews mushrooms? Nice firm closed cap ‘shrooms, cut into slices with the stems in, then lightly fried in butter with black pepper, with chilli flakes, on toasted multi seed loaf. Nice and firm, nothing soft and squidgy or over-cooked.
Ye gods you lot, fussing over veg is such an affected schoolboy nonsense! Were you given pork pies as dummies when you acted up around cabbage?
And then he sez... 😉
Now, what the hell are beansprouts about? What does one do with a beansprout? Alfalfa? WTAF!! Sounds funny, and it’s green
OK in moussaka but otherwise as awful as marrow. Swede. Now there's a vegetable.
And then he sez… 😉
It was a roll-on satire. Alfalfa is the tittz 😀
OK in moussaka but otherwise as awful as marrow.
Seriously? You're missing out.
Sweet baby Jesus, who in their right mind stews mushrooms?
Presumably they're not the sole* ingredient.
*a red herring.
Have you not heard of babaganoush or Otto Lenghi
Otto isn't his first name 😉
I’ll see your aubergine and raise you a courgette. The most foul and heinous of vegetables.
I hear you brother.
Aubergine, meh, there's work arounds for them, Okra however are the basis of wallpaper paste, gellatinous, glutinous, tasteless, eugh, just eugh.
Okra is fine.
Asparagus-peas on the other hand, the most rubbish vegetable ever; a total waste of space in the garden if you have ever grown them (seeds were given away on the front of Gardeners World or similar).
Ooh, babaganoush, must make some of that. My children will love it (*).
(*) Refuse point-blank to touch it, since it will fail the "have-I-eaten-this-before" test.
Babaganous looks like something cats leave on flowerbeds.
^ For the full effect serve it up next to a kofta kebab, with chocolate soil to follow
Haha!
Not a fan.
inbred456 - Yes! courgettes ,what is the point in a flavourless sausage!
Broccoli however ,can be made into little trees!
I was never very keen on aubergine (I even used to leave it out when making ratatouille) until a very simple dish in an Italian restaurant of layered up aubergine slices and a garlicky tomato sauce. I was converted.
Okra is brilliant in curries.
Le Rosbifs are out in force on this thread.....
aubergines - try Jamie Oliver's 5 ingredient lamb curry - the aubergines are LUSH!
Were you given pork pies as dummies
*nicks Malvern Riders idea and heads off to Dragon's Den*
I forgot the pesto on the panini. This really is a delicious sarnie.
From the bottom:
pesto
Slice grilled aubergine/oilve oil
slices of goat's cheese
Sliced toms
Put top on, wrap in foil, heat in oven.
put a few leaves in it. Rocket, basil, spinach, anything
Gob it. Wash down with red wine.
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I'd say it's technically a fruit, in which case it has many rivals when it comes to extreme responses. I had my first taste of a Durian fruit the other day-like eating a rotten corpse.
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I forgot the pesto on the panini. This really is a delicious sarnie.
Wow. Need to make that soon!
Aubergines are great, apart from moussaka, baba ganoush and the roasted way they are also some great curries you can make with them. Roasted or bbq'ed slices with a bit of sesame oil, honey and salt is also nice.
Artichokes are about the only vegetable I'm not really keen on. Something about the metallic taste.