Whats your favourite summer vegetable 🥒🌶 ... - Healthy Eating
Whats your favourite summer vegetable 🥒🌶 🍆 this is a single choice and please say what other is.
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It was too hard to choose. I love them all 🤷🏻♀️
Love just about all of them, but the first young, sweet broad beans picked and quickly eaten from my garden top the lot (rapidly followed by freshly dug new potatoes)
I’m not sure if they count, but Jersey Royals are my absolute favourite. Only here for a short time makes them even more delicious!
My favourite summer vegetable is/are sugar-snap peas; so quick to prepare and tasty too
fennel is very refreshing low cal and low carb and great raw or baked or stir fried much under rated
Just wondering Wulugu, Do you grow your own Fennel ? I know of it but have only had it as in a tea bag. It sounds very versatile. Have now found it on a supermarket website so thinking will give it a try on next online order.
If you mean Florence fennel (bulb fennel) that's one of my all-time favourites too. It's hard to get in this part of the world, but it's so versatile, raw or cooked, and has a really unusual flavour. Excellent in salads, with a roast, or with fish.
I suspect it's underrated because it's a bit painful to grow, but no more so than (say) sweet peppers. Bit of a mystery really.
I admit I just buy it in the market / supermarket but just refreshing and leaves good with fish
broad beans , peas and mange tout
Runner beans.
What are runner beans?
They are big long green capsules of veg beans grown on vine type plants. Usually have red flowers whilst growing but sometimes White flowers . Runner beans in my opinion are best picked before the outer skin gets tough or the bean plant gets too long. Hence grow your own runner beans are the best. They freeze well too, providing you blanch them first. The ones they sell in the shop always seem too long and tough to me for slicing before cooking.
Grown in the UK, but I've never seen them in the USA.
So, they are like green beans or snow peas? I haven't seen them out here by me in any of the stores.
Much longer / wider than green beans, and the pod is chunkier with a rougher surface. The beans inside are also larger. Like green beans, you eat the whole runner bean pod, usually sliced, very tasty. Here's a good pic of some ideal runner beans (they often grow with a bit of a curl though) - dtbrownseeds.co.uk/Peas-Bea...
Thank you for the picture! They looked sort of what I was hoping they would be, but shorter. Nice! 
Are you American, Activity2004? They're grown as ornamentals in the US, so should be readily available. Runner beans are a bit of a British institution ... the rest of the world thinks we're mad for eating them, but they taste pretty much like any other bean.
I live in the USA. I also was born here, too.
I love fennel! I can just crunch my way through one. Lovely flavour!
Straight out of the fridge raw SWEET PEPPERS. Nothing else.
All the colours ? No favourites ?
I eat all colours. Aldi or Liddell. Small packets with about 6-8 in.
I chose a group..only thing is that I don't particularly like radish, which was included in it. However, I like all the other stuff in the other groups as well.
Oh, and I've just thought of one of my very favourits, not on the list, which is runner beans..I love 'em
Runner beans
It was really hard to choose as I love most of them. Mushrooms and tomatoes are also my very favourite😊
Do you eat the mushroom raw or cooked. A friend of mine eats them raw but I've never done that. I like mushrooms knowing they are good for me and they make a great soup. I'll eat tomatoes but they are not my favourites anymore. I think because it's often the lack of taste and also the tough skins. Do you have any favourite varieties of tomatoes ?
Btw I love raw mushroom more than cooked. Cooked to me can taste squelchy or soapy at times.
I did try them raw and do like them but mostly have them cooked in veg stew or roasted, stir fry. I love shiitakee mushrooms. The baby tomatoes I get are from Riverford, keeping them in the kitchen not in the fridge as from the fridge they won't taste nice. The other option is to take them out of the fridge an hour before your meal time. The best tasting tomatoes to get are homegrown. My relatives got a couple of pots of tomatoes from the garden centre, they are keeping them in the conservatory. My grandparents had lots of tomatoes in their garden back in my childhood, I used to eat a lot. Sometimes my parents couldn't find me in that paradise😊
Cucumber is my favourite summer vegetable. I've always loved them. And I with a knor chicken stock cube and water it makes a Devine soup with a touch of single organic cream. Although I expect there is a healthier option for the cream. easy to make even without the blender. We always eat it warm/ hot. Also a fan of Avocado, but the price puts me off a bit and they can be fattening but I know they are good for you. I quite like them sliced in a salad as an extra taste.
Hi Rosepetal60, your cucumber soups sounds delicious and I wouldn't worry about about a little organic single cream...😊
Roo great idea Ty. Do you cook the cucumber a lot? I like the idea of no blender lol.
Many years ago, when I didn't have a blender, I made it by pressing the cooked cucumber through a metal sieve. Take 1 large cucumber, wipe or rinse under cold tap. Cut lengthwise down middle. Then cut the 2 halves down the middle. Then cut each length into small 1 inch chunks . Put in a pan with 3/4 pint of cold water. Add a knor chicken stock cube . Bring to the boil. And simmer for 5 minutes. Turn off heat and leave to carry on cooking / cooling down . Take ladles of the chunks of cucumber and stock and manually put through the metal sieve usuind a wooden spoon or something to help push it through . You may need to repeat some off the pressing through. I only did this method a few times before buying a blender/ liquidiser. Even a processor I would think would give fairy good results or one of thos hand held whisks. P.S. Add single cream to taste. Just pour a very small amount in. Be careful not to put too much in. Taste after putting say a couple of tablespoons in if making the full amount. I cook this soup about every 10 days. So easy and quick to make . We never get tired of it.
Zucchini, steamed, fried, grilled, sauted, stir fried. Have to have hot peppers of any type and my love of cucumbers with dill in vinager all must be organic and hopefully from my own garden provided my dear Abby DEER and fawn does not eat them. I have her pretty well trained to a feeding area. Still the faens are frisky little devils and will try getting by the deer safe fence.
For those in the UK you probably know zucchini is courgette here
Yes we call them courgettes Easy to grow and you only need two or three plants to provide enough all summer. Pick them while they are still small because they very quickly grow into Marrows!
Many of these are technically fruit, e.g. tomato, cucumber, zucchini, avocado, peppers - any containing their seed.
I said other as I love many too, rocket, tomato, avocado, cucumber and this may not be so healthy but I love many vegetables in vinegar eg picked beetroot (I love this more than unpickled beetroot) picallili etc. I realise picallili may not be as healthy. But sometimes I eat more veg this way and I am not watching my weight.
fennel and celeriac are very versatile and also low in carbs and calories and tasty
A great salad which is low carb is
thinly slices baby raw mushrooms , small chestnut ones are good ,
a little finely chopped raw onion,
grated cheese and all moistened
with sour cream . delicious but doesn't store well so call it stroganoff next day . cook it and serve on steamed veg.
