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What vegetable do you consider to be the most versatile, in ways to cook or in parts to eat, for example a cabbage can be used in a salad or coleslaw leaves can be fried or boiled, stalks can be peeled and core added to stir fries and no doubt there will be other things you can do with them so what others do you use
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it may be a struggle to reach the top, but once your over the hill your problems start.
Member of the Nutters Club but I think I am just there to make up the numbers
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I like courgettes they can be eaten Either raw or cooked.
Stuffed
Sliced and fried
Grated and used in a salad
Grated and turned into fritters
Sliced then pickled with onions
Added to stir fries
Used in soups and stewsLast edited by Bren In Pots; 27-12-2019, 05:16 PM.Location....East Midlands. -
Radishes.
Eat the roots, leaves and seed pods and enjoy the flowers
Here's one I prepared earlier.https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...ish_96580.htmlComment
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Tomatoes,you can eat one as a snack on its own & it’s really tasty,have them in cold or hot meals breakfast,lunch & dinner,never gets boring because of the versatility. It’s nice in the summer gathering a selection of fruit & veg & guessing what meal shall I make with these. It reminds me of that program ready steady cook where two chefs get a box of mystery ingredients,I feel like I’m playing it everyday & it’s all free food I made,growing more variety would be a good way for more meal choices. Least versatile is runner beans which is a shame,there’s so many of them,I have them as a side veg sliced with everything I don’t know how to experiment with them in a way I’d like,I wouldn’t pickle them they taste nice how they are.Location : EssexComment
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Thinly sllced, runner beans, left to grow cold, are nice tossed in soy sauce and sesame seeds as a salad.Comment
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We need a urghhhhh button as someone is going to come along with cauliflower in a minuteComment
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Cauliflower
Eat the heads, leaves, stalks. Slice the heads into "steaks", or turn into "rice"
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a head of cabbage as rary said,but with the addition off some slits in the top,and it will give you some more nice greens to eat,
not to forget the humble onion varieties,used many ways,even make you cry.sigpicAnother nutter ,wife,mother, nan and nanan,love my growing places,seed collection and sharing,also one of theseComment
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For me it would be tomatoes.
Raw, in a salad. Sliced on a sandwich.
Tomato soup, tomato sauce, tomato salsa.
Frozen and used in stir fries in the winter.
You've just got to love The Tomato.
And when your back stops aching,
And your hands begin to harden.
You will find yourself a partner,
In the glory of the garden.
Rudyard Kipling.sigpicComment
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Spuds just so many optionsComment
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Onions.
Where would we be without them
My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Diversify & prosper
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To me, "versatile" means that you can eat all parts of them so spuds and tomatoes would be out because you can't eat the leaves.
Onions and brassicas are In.
Some roots crops (beetroot, radish, carrot, turnip) are in but parsnip is out.Comment
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In terms of ways to cook anything that crosses into the sweet spectrum of dishes is good, so courgette, beetroot, parsnip, carrots, squash, as the can all go into cakes/biscuits/puddings as well as savoury.....Another happy Nutter...
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anything NOT suitable to eat can be composted,or make tea off,so that has to be good all round,sigpicAnother nutter ,wife,mother, nan and nanan,love my growing places,seed collection and sharing,also one of theseComment
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From my own point of view tomatoes would win hands down as I use them in nearly every meal. Peas are pretty versatile as you can eat the shoots as well as the peas, and if they are mangetout you can also eat the pods. You can dry the seeds and use them for all sorts of things, if you like dried pulses. Personally I don't.A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard NimoyComment
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