• Event_Horizon@lemmy.world
    30·
    7 days ago

    Broccoli tossed in olive oil, cooked in an air fryer until crispy and then sprinkled with course salt. Delicious 👌🏼

    • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      7 days ago

      So going to try that!

      My recent go to ( not broccoli though) is toss some fresh spinach in a pan with oil and hit it with lemon pepper seasoning and a little lemon juice.

      Takes like 5 including prep if you don’t mind the stalks.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      I thought broccoli only got softer when cooked. Does this work if you don’t have an air fryer and you fry it in a pan?

      Now I’m wondering what would it would taste like to marinade broccoli in butter and garlic then took them out and put them in a dehydrator to make them into chips

      • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 days ago

        Just cut into bite size pieces, toss it in oil, salt and pepper it, put it on a baking sheet and roast at 425 for around 20 minutes. Don’t fry it in a pan. It will be delicious

        • Soulfulginger@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 days ago

          This is the way, never liked broccoli until I learned to make it like this. I love adding different seasonings too depending on the flavor profile of the meal - curry and ginger powder for indian dishes, cajun seasoning if you like spicy, or garlic/lemon/italian seasoning.

  • PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world
    7·
    7 days ago

    My theory on this is that some of the hate for a lot of vegetables comes from either eating canned ones or poorly cooked ones. My girlfriend didn’t know she liked green beans until she started living with my family and my father made her some. My dad sautéed the in butter with garlic, and she only had ever had those extremely mushy canned ones and had concluded on that basis she hated green beans.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    31·
    6 days ago

    There are just a ton of foods that input in my mouth that immediately make me feel like I’m going to vomit. I really hate it.

        • TheOakTree@lemm.ee
          3·
          6 days ago

          I think they’re asking because you can develop taste aversion by eating something and getting sick (even if the sickness is completely unrelated).

          My sister got H1N1 when it was proliferating, and she had a box of nilla wafers before the symptoms started hitting hard. Now she inexplicably can’t eat a single nilla wafer.

          • Snowclone@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 days ago

            Yeah, I can no longer eat beets. Which I loved growing up, but ate a bit, got sick unrelated and I can’t even think about them too much without aversion kicking in. It really does suck.

          • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
            2·
            6 days ago

            Ohhh. No, I think it’s because my parents didn’t make me try many foods when I was young and then once they began it was the big ordeal of never letting me leave the table until I tried some. Many times I would wait them out because things just disgusted me that much.

            I’d still describe myself as a pretty “picky eater” and I loathe trying anything new in public, but I’ve gotten a lot better and I have pickier friends too now. (It helps not being the most picky lol.)

  • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world
    43·
    7 days ago

    If you are a super taster, broccoli taste like grass smells. At least for me and my daughter. Its so bitter that I threw up one time when I was a kid being forced to eat it. So lets accept that to someone with a lesser/different sense of taste/smell its okay. To those of us who can smell when someone has been in their house five hours after they left it taste completely different. So no thanks I don’t want to eat grass.

    • Stern@lemmy.world
      4·
      7 days ago

      Do you think that your special taste buds not liking broccoli are so widespread that they’ve made not liking broccoli a common cartoon trope?

    • KuroiKaze@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 days ago

      Fellow super taster though it’s more like a curse. It also extends to wine, beer, coffee, onions, and numerous other things because my sense of bitter is too strong.

      • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        Its definitely a curse. The only positive is I don’t eat bad food. I’ve watched people eat food that had gone bad telling me I was imagining things. I’ve also smugly handed out some I told you so to people who promptly got sick.

    • TheOakTree@lemm.ee
      1·
      6 days ago

      How do you find out if you are a supertaster? I’m curious because growing up I couldn’t stomach any vegetable that was bitter. Broccoli, brussel sprouts, celery, etc. were enough to make me gag just from the flavor. Nowadays, I can cope with the bitterness by focusing on other flavors and textures but I’ve definitely been in positions where I have a single bite of celery and then can’t muster up the courage to eat for a solid hour.

      • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 days ago

        I don’t think I’ve ever been diagnosed other than the fact that I can smell things others can’t. I can smell when people are sick. Cancer has a smell. I sometimes I encounter people and don’t know what the smell is but know they are sick. I can smell cockroaches in a house. Even if you can’t see them I can smell them in the walls. All in all I would choose to have just a regular sense of smell since many perfumes and those damned plug in air freshener just smell like noxious chemicals to me. Its just like walking in a room and someone is screaming. Only I’m the only one there that can hear it. Not fun.

  • mommykink@lemmy.worldEnglish
    119·
    7 days ago

    I sympathize with the bottom part so much. My parents absolutely refused to cook anything ever and bought the worst, most unhealthy prepackaged foods from the grocery stores. I spent the first years of my life thinking that things like apples just weren’t sold at my local Kroger because we never had them. I felt like shit mentally and physically for pretty much the first 18 years of my life because of it.

    I grew up, moved out, and holy shit I love eating “rabbit food,” as my dad used to call it and I never would have learned before is that cooking is fun

      • mommykink@lemmy.worldEnglish
        119·
        7 days ago

        Yes but that was irrelevant because she never cooked for me, she was just hot. Still is, in fact.

        We always joke that he has a Wine Mom. He thinks that we’re calling her a drunk. It means that she gets better with age.

        • theangryseal@lemmy.world
          7·
          7 days ago

          Man I was tormented with that crap as a kid. “HOLY CRAP YOUR SISTER IS HOT!!! That’s your mommmmmm? Whoa!”

          Same crap with my sister.

          I see them both as living farts.

          • Bob@feddit.nl
            5·
            6 days ago

            I had a running joke with this lad in school where he’d say “your sister’s fit” and I’d punch him in the arm. No idea why we did it or how it stayed so friendly. Just remembered it for the first time in maybe 20 years. Thanks!

          • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            4·
            6 days ago

            The good news is if your mother and sister are attractive, There’s decent odds your good looking as well. Unless your mother fucked an ogre, and if that’s so… Well at least Shrek’s your dad?

            • theangryseal@lemmy.world
              4·
              6 days ago

              I’m not ugly, but I’m the least attractive member of my family.

              My brother looked like a Greek god, my sister looked like a model. My dad was so sought after that his name was spray painted all over our town with hearts and love confessions. Bridges, buildings, love for him was everywhere. He was chased by women aged 18-90.

              I was born with crossed eyes and had to have a corrective surgery. Every man in my family is over 6ft tall and I’m only 5’7. I still randomly message my mother to thank her for going through with the surgery.

              I definitely lost the lottery, but it could have been worse.

          • Victor@lemmy.world
            51·
            7 days ago

            Well now we need to see pictures of your hot mom and hot sis so we can judge for ourselves in the name of science and research.

    • BlueLineBae@midwest.socialEnglish
      21·
      7 days ago

      I feel you. I weirdly did have vegetables and things growing up, but my mom self admittedly hates cooking. So most of what we ate consisted of casseroles made up of things dumped out of a can and any veggies likely also came from a can and we’re heated up on the stove. She also over cooked all the meat to make sure people wouldn’t get sick. So all the veggies were bland and mushy and all the meat was dry as fuck. I’ll never forget the first time I ate fresh pineapple at my inlaws house and it was one of the best things I ever tasted. I’m pretty good at cooking now and I’ve managed to help my mom improve in all ways as well. She now uses a meat thermometer that I got her for Christmas. I cooked her some fresh broccoli in a pan with salt, pepper, and garlic powder and she loved it and started making hers that way instead of boiling it. Baby steps, but we’re making progress.

      • GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world
        421·
        7 days ago

        Some dudes live their whole lives afraid their balls will fall off and roll away if they eat anything but brown meat.

      • anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        311·
        7 days ago

        In the 90s people started suggesting eating veggies occasionally and the American populace reacted predictably, i.e. as if someone were threatening to literally emasculate them.

        Kind of like the modern anti-vax/anti-mask freaks.

      • mommykink@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        7 days ago

        I’ve heard it be said from many men that I knew growing up that the more processed food is, the better, because it kills all the germs that come out of the ground. I’ve not seen that man eat anything green that wasn’t on top of a fast food cheeseburger in all my years alive.

  • bdot@lemmy.world
    962·
    7 days ago

    broccoli is like anal sex… if you’re forced to have it as a kid, you’re not gonna like it as an adult

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    76·
    7 days ago

    The “kids don’t like broccoli” has a scientific reason. Kids have a lot more receptors for aromas tasting bitter (10 to 15k different chemical compounds taste bitter to them) which reduce to 5k or less when growing up. So some types of food that adults can eat without problems because they lack the receptors have bitter and vile flavours for kids.

    • The Menemen!@lemmy.world
      7·
      7 days ago

      I always assumed this is also why adults love disgusting cheese (I do to a degree as well nowadays). We just lost our sense of taste and call it refined taste.

      • Treczoks@lemmy.world
        5·
        7 days ago

        The “losing taste” is actually a beneficial thing. Most things that kids don’t like are either risky (e.g. coffee) or difficult to digest (all kinds of cabbage), so it is good that kids don’t like them. For adults being able to expand acceess to available foods helps feeding the horde in difficult times.

    • Drint@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      49·
      7 days ago

      Plant breeders have also been busy reducing bitterness/tannins in various vegetables like brussel sprouts and canola oil, so things are in fact less bitter than 30 years ago.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        3·
        6 days ago

        Brussels Sprouts are another one… I don’t think I had properly cooked Brussels sprouts until I was in my mid-to-late-20s, and they’ve become one of my favorite vegetables. They’re so fucking good dude.

        • Drint@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          9·
          7 days ago

          I’m mostly familiar with animal feed, where nutritional quality weighs quite heavy during selection. For human consumption I assume there are some base nutritional standards when applying to enter the market with a new breed, but might heavily depend on your region.

    • dalekcaan@lemm.ee
      25·
      7 days ago

      Doesn’t help a lot of people used to just boil broccoli without seasoning. Doesn’t do the flavor any favors.

      • Crismus@lemmy.world
        8·
        7 days ago

        My stepmother was that way so I couldn’t stand broccoli growing up. Most vegetables were blan and tasteless without salt and boiled.

        I rarely buy them now because I can’t physically handle cooking every day now. So most vegetables go bad in the fridge.