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What is your favorite veggie? Mine. . . .avocados, tomatoes, asparagus, corn

Favorite fruit? Mine. . strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and mangos!

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Asparagus, Broccoli rabe aka rapini, artichokes, zucchini

Nectarines, plums, strawberries, watermelon

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Kevin Spacey

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TexasJack, How do you cook the Broccoli rabe? b/c I have a super recipe for it.
never heard anyone even mention rabe's

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I do it two different ways, depending on how I'm serving it. If it's going on a sandwich or as a side dish, I heat about 1/4 cup of olive oil and then add 3 thinly sliced garlic cloves. When they begin to brown, I add a 1/2 teaspoon of red pepper flakes and cook for another minute. Finally I add the broccoli rabe, toss until well coated, and then cover and cook until it's at your desired tenderness. I like to leave a bit of crunch in the stalks.

If it's going to end up in a pasta dish, I steam it briefly with the sliced garlic cloves, then add to a saute pan with the pasta to finish.

I would love to hear your recipe if you feel like sharing.

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wow, pretty much the same way you cook it,
first, I cut off the stems, don't like them
then steam the rabes, save the liquid,
add olive oil to a saute pan, add pepper flakes. chopped up pepperoni and garlic when garlic is almost brown add about a teaspoon of butter (old Italian trick, takes away the bitterness, got it from the TV cook Lydia) then add the steamed rabes and chopped sharp provolone, salt, 1/8 of a cup of the liquid, stir fry for 1 minute, eat it with Italian bread or you can add it to pasta,
I can eat it for breakfast, lol

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Thanks, that sounds really good. I must try it that way.

Lydia is great. I dined at one of her restaurants in NYC about 10 years ago and it was fantastic.

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yeah, she's great, I love her cooking,

bon appetit

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That seems impossible to answer. There are so many tasty veggies. The only one I truly despise are Brussels' sprouts. Salsify and topinambour are underrated, I think.

Fruit is even harder. Maybe I'll go with avocado.


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More vegetables and plantlife: Peyote mushrooms, Poppies, Coca and Cannibis.

Put that last one in everything you eat. It makes EVERYTHING taste better!

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Asparagus with lemon and butter.
Pickled beetroot and pickled red cabbage.
Sweet fresh peas.
New potatoes.

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Asparagus roasted in garlic,butter and parmesan
Peas


oranges
grapefruit
pineapple

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To speak more seriously:

Vegetables: white asparagus, carrots, Roma tomatoes (although in fact a tomato is a fruit), Cepe mushrooms, Chanterelle mushrooms, Shitake mushrooms, Porcini mushrooms, black fresh truffles, red onions, scallions (yum! love the tang of scallions!), sugar snap peas, Idaho potatoes, sweet potatoes, wild rice, fresh-ground black pepper, roast red peppers, black Calmetta olives, nori, red lentils, fiddelheads, sprouts.

But what are naked vegetables without a dressing? My picks: Cesar, Ranch, Blue cheese , balsamic vinaigrette and olive oil, Italian, Greek (including a topping of Feta cheese and a lot of Retsina wine on the side. A lot.)

Fruits: I like dense, explosive fruit. I once had a girlfriend who was a Yogini (yoga teacher) and expert in macrobiotics. She knew that I love apples, bananas, figs, raisins, dried cranberries (craisins). She told me that I needed to eat more luscious, less energetically concentrated, fruits, to balance myself, because I am a dense, concentrated and explosive spirit. (By the way, sometimes I would bring her with me when I was going to
interview a prominent local chef for The Herald, and the chef[s] would ask her more questions than I would ask them, because they were so
genuinely interested in learning about macrobiotics. You may be surprised by
the amount of research that great chefs put into their art.)
She was of course right; so I
also enjoy Mandarin oranges and naval oranges and Bosc pears and mangoes.

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What kind of peas, Dewey? Green peas? Sugar snap peas? Peas in a pod? Inquiring minds want to know!

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How could I forget mushrooms. I do eat a lot of mushrooms.
I love Morel mushrooms which are only available for a few weeks in my neck of the woods.
That's if you can find them. If you can't you pay dearly for them.

I also have a friend that talks to me about macrobiotics.
She named some of the things and it turns out I already incorporate many of these in my diet.
She of course is in amazing shape. I feel for my age I'm doing alright.
I'm 6 feet about 180 pounds. I'll take it.

Mandarin oranges are my favorite. I also like blood oranges.
I live in cranberry country so I also eat a lot of this.

Snap peas in a pod for my salad and stir fry. Other than that green peas.
Nothing like peas or green beans fresh from the vine.
Also like chickpeas but that's a different story.

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Cabbage,potatoes.

Fruits : prunes,cherries,apples etc.

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Food, glorious food!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly7PONiKGUs


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I grow a variety of greens in my garden every year. Swiss Chard is probably my favorite, sauteed in olive oil with a little sea salt and garlic. I love broccoli rabe too, cooked the same way.

Did I mention I eat a potato a day? Probably one of my favorite foods.

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Just one potato?

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I'm an omnivore, not a herbivore, so I'll also add this:

The following foods are my favorites:

A) Veggies:
1) Sweet potatoes
2)cucumbers
3)Onion.s
4) Winter Squash
5) Arugula
6) Scallions
7) Radishes
8) Romaine Lettuce

Fruits:
a) Grapefruits( especially red ones)
b) Apples (especially McIntosh)
c) Avocado
d) Water melon
e) Honeydew Melon
f) Raspberries
g) Oranges

Meats:

a) Pork
b) Chicken
c) Steak (on the rare side, with onions on it)
d) Roast beef (rare)
e) Roast duck

Seafood:

1) Wild-caught Alaskan King or Sock-eye salmon steaks
2) Halibut
3) Hake
4) Swordfish (on occasion)
5) mussels
6) Lobster (boiled--whole)
7) Filet of Sole

Favorite Pastas/Grains:

a) Spaghetti
b) Macaroni & Cheese
c) Quinoa
d) Brown Rice
e) Fettucine

Favorite breads:

a) Sour Dough (yum yum!)
b) Rye Bread
c) Marble Rye

Favorite desserts:

a) Chocolate chocolate chip/fudge Ice cream (yum yum!)
b) chocolate layer or pound cake with chocolate frosting or glaze on top
c) Lemon Meringue Pie
d) Chocolate Chocolate Chip muffins.
e) dark, bittersweet chocolate.


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I'm a simple man. My favorite foods are:

1. Lobster Tail
2. Prime Rib
3. King Crab Legs
4. Ribeye steak
5. Really fine ice cream
6. Really good chili


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I like to make a pot of Chili Con Carne during cold winter nights, which is moderately spicy. Good for this New England Winter weather.

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Oh dang! Now that has made my hungry. Gotta go eat something. Bye.


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Ooh! Glad I got your palate activated. Enjoy your meal! Bye!

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Thanks. I'm back. I had a really warm and lovely pastrami and Swiss on rye with a Claussen dill pickle.
Mmmmm.


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Oooh...yummy...again!

Pastrami & Swiss Cheese on Rye also sounds delicious.

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Hake is underrated and underutilized in the US. Its a good alternative to cod and haddock which are over fished. Another good option is Cusk. Taste similar, but has a more meaty texture. Some call it poor mans lobster. It makes an excellent fish stew since it doesn't fall apart like other white fish.

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I've had Cusk before. It's quite good. Thanks for the heads up.

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I’m guessing you’re a chocolate fan.

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Aha!! You're a mind-reader, TexasJack! I am a chocolate fan, especially of the dark, bittersweet chocolate. Mmmmm :P

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My dad loves dark chocolate also. I make a mean dark chocolate soufflé.

I think it’s becoming more popular generally because I’ve noticed that over the last few years almost every milk chocolate candy like Reese’s pb cups, Twix, Kit Kat, Milky Way is now available with dark chocolate.

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Dark chocolate, however, should be at least 70% cacao. I had some real dark chocolate truffles over this last Christmas/New Years Holiday period, and to say that they were yummy is an understatement--they were quite addictive!

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Have you thought of sharing your dark chocolate souffle recipe on here with us? Just curious.

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