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Questions tagged [vegetables]

From the humblest pea to the immensest squash.

Use this tag for questions about any kind of vegetable, or about vegetables in general.

Recommended especially for questions about broad classes of vegetables; most questions about a specific vegetable should include the specific vegetable tag, e.g. , although the tag may still be used in these cases.

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Are there blue foods out there?

Are there naturally occurring foods that are blue? Not foods that have been created in a lab to be blue?
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Vegetable "jam" with salt instead of sugar

My bread baker has a program for preparing jams. The recipe says to put 3 cups of fruit with 1 cup of water and some lemon juice. This tastes great and it is also preserved well for over a year. Now I would like to use the baker for preserving…
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Troubleshooting: Kitchen Sink Vegetable Soup

One of my newbie goals is to be able to make a kitchen sink vegetable soup that doesn't default to tomatoes and packs a punch in flavor. (Cleaning out the fridge and being healthy are nice goals too). Assumptions & Procedure Almost all the…
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How to preserve eggplants/brinjals?

How can eggplant be preserved? I would like to preserve it for a month or more, if possible.
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Vegetable Soup Missing Something Fundamental?

In response to the "on hold", I'll attempt to make the question more clear and specific. Is there an ingredient or ingredients (or technique) that is missing from the below recipe that all or nearly all vegetable soup recipes use and might be…
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Steaming vegetables in microwave

I made a short research on steaming vegetables in microwave to compare it to steaming on stove top. An interesting discovery I made is that steaming in microwave is more energy efficient when cooking in small portions. Large portions, on the other…
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Proper cook times for mushrooms, onions, and peppers

One of my favorite meals is poached chicken cut into strips and stir fried with mushrooms, onions, and peppers and a bit of oil-based salad dressing for flavor. However, most of the time I get the timing wrong and end up with over or undercooked…
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How to keep vegetables and herbs fresh for longer?

Possible Duplicate: How to Store Fresh Herbs How long can I store a food in the pantry, refrigerator, or freezer? Due to my lifestyle it's hard to tell in advance whether I will be cooking during some weeks. I love food though, and when I get…
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What is this Asian dish made with boiled vegetables?

Does anyone know which is the dish where we have a pot/pan of boiling vegetables/meat in the center and people sit around it with their noodles and soup bowls and keep picking things from it and eating?
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How can one test if a vegetable is organic?

If I buy some vegetables and take them home, is there any way to determine if the vegetables contain dangerous levels of pesticides?
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How to increase flavour intensity in this recipe?

I am thinking of making dinner tonight (probably pasta) and the ingredients that I have a courgettes, tomatoes and half a butternut squash. I am 70% vegetarian I first added olive oil, then fried onions and garlic, then added in the vegetables. I…
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Simmering split peas smell bitter - why?

Today while simmering split peas with a good meaty ham bone, the whole works smell so bitter. I'm wondering why. I love pea soup but haven't made it very often. In the end it did taste fine but had a really bad smell like it was going to taste…
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Can I add more stuff to my fermenting Sauerkraut jar?

So, I have a jar of sauerkraut fermenting, and today (2days into fermentation) due to my curiosity, I opened the jar a bit to taste the kraut. It tasted quite nice, the taste change already happend to the onions I think. So, now after eating, there…
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Excess oil when boiling vegetables even though no added oil

When I make my vegetables, I boil tomatoes, onions, broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms, collard greens and eggplants in plain water. To my surprise I always find oil on top of the water, even though I added none. What could be the cause? My thought is…
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Roasting Par boiled Vegetables

I parboiled zucchini broccoli cauliflower carrots and butternut squash now I want to roast them in the oven what temperature and how long should I roast them since they're partially cooked?
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