ION, I'm ordering pizza and watching Doctor Who. It is REALLY good pizza.
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Roasted corn and roasted red potatoes are a huge step up from the way those vegetables normally taste. And grilling seems to bring out the best in onions and all sorts of squash, even without any extra seasoning.
I love Jersey corn cooked on the grill. It's just so much better than boiled corn on the cob, and light years beyond canned or frozen.
I've also always been more than a little unadventurous with the grocery-store veg, but I third the idea that the good stuff is a completely different non-animal. Growing my own makes a huge difference for me: I started gardening because I wanted to play in the dirt and had happy childhood memories of my mom's and grandma's gardens and refused to pay $2 over and over for the little plastic packets of herbs and knew that the few veggies I really enthusiastically loved were way better when they were freshly grown; once I fell in love with growing things, I started wanting to try more and more different species and weird varieties, and having a relationship with a vegetable makes me 1000 times more likely to want to try cool ways of making and eating it.
(I'm also one of those weirdos who turned into a foodie and cook as a more-or-less direct result of being an insanely picky eater, and the gardening thing is closely related. If I make it, I know exactly what's in it and can totally finesse my way around my remaining weird taste and texture issues without having to explain yet again that no, I don't like food-that-EVERYONE-likes, and yes I really have tried it, and yes, I mean I've tried it several times, and...)
Thanks, Brenda, I appreciate it.
My pizza was disappointing. The pesto was half salt, blech. Here is where I scrape everything off the crust, pick out and eat the veg, and nom the crispy bits of crust. I wonder if they'd consider making a chicken pesto pizza subbing garlic olive oil for the pesto? I went for pesto because I can't do the tomato based sauces.
::sits on amych's bench. her garden bench. eats raw homegrown veggies::
Freshly picked sweet corn is a miracle of yum. It's a delicate creature and a different animal than if you wait a week and/or put it in the fridge.
One of my favorite ways to grill it is with some basil stuffed under the leaves.
Watching "Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives" is making me want to road-trip and try all these places.
I just got totally confused by the fact that we're also talking salad in Bitches. But then I scrolled back and remembered that discussion started with arugula as liberal shibboleth. I love us.
Just catching up on all the food talk. I'm kind of meh on most veggies, but I will admit, I'm so looking forward to our local Farmer's Market opening up in a couple of weeks. I can't wait to see all the great, fresh things we can get.