What is your favorite green fruit or vegetable. Can be green on the inside or outside. Me--Granny Smith Apples

[debm55]

[riversedge]

1. green beans! Just bought some at the Farmers Market and will have lunch;

[MiHale]

2. Getting about a pound a day from the garden...

Dehydrated lots already.

[debm55]

3. Thank you very much riversedge, Enjoy your lunch

[MiHale]

4. Watermelon Radish...

Green on the outside…red inside.


https://boulderlocavore.com/watermelon-radish-pickles-quick-easy-and-uber-tasty/

[debm55]

5. Thank you very much, MiHale. This is the first time I heard of them . Thank you for sharing.

[electric_blue68]

13. Hee, hee, hee - they're adorable! How pretty! Ty.

[debm55]

15. Thank you very much for the link with watermelon-radish, MiHale. They do look like little watermelons.

[sorcrow]

6. Avocados

Yum.
They've become so expensive. I look for deals, but don't eat them as much as I used to.

Best regards,
Sorghum Crow

[debm55]

7. Thank you very much, socrow. I agree---yummy

[enid602]

29. Toast

Am enjoying an avocado toast and a latte in a sidewalk cafe in Buenos Aires as we speak. ¡ Muy rico!

[debm55]

34. Wow, Thank you enid602 and enjoy your lunch and trip.

[pandr32]

8. I think spinach is awesome!

Raw or cooked. From salads to dips. Also, Spanakopita!

[debm55]

9. Thank you very much for spinach. pandr32. I so enjoy Spanakopita.

[electric_blue68]

14. This half Greek-American loves Spanakopita!

[stopdiggin]

10. Kiwi ! and then honorable mentions for a whole list

asparagus, bell pepper, peas, broccoli ... even the leafy stuff .. romaine, spinach ...

Oh - and we ate plenty of 'green' apples as kids - despite admonitions and old wive's tales about 'belly-aches' .... Never turned a hair ...

[debm55]

16. Wow, what a list. Thank you, stopdiggin. for the assortment of green fruits and veggies.

[ms liberty]

11. Broccoli. It's versatile, delicious and very nutritious...

You can eat it raw or cooked. Dress it up with toppings or in a recipe, or down and eat it raw in a salad or with a dip, or steam it with a dash of salt and a tiny bit of butter. It pairs perfectly with rice and pasta; it works with most veggies, and it complements beef, chicken, pork and seafood.

[debm55]

17. Thank you ms. liberty for including broccoli and their various uses.

[electric_blue68]

12. Avocado, hands down! Veggie would probably be asparagus.

A very crisp, fresh romaine lettuce is quite tasty.

[debm55]

18. Thank you very much, electric_blue68 for your green choices.

[KitFox]

19. I like every green vegetable, even okra! 😁 But if I had

to choose one, it would be asparagus. Fruit would be kiwi. When I make an apple pie, I always use your favorite, Granny Smith.

[debm55]

20. Thank you very much for your selections. KitFox. Enjoy.

[ProfessorGAC]

21. Fruit, I'll Go With Your Choice, Or...

...Kiwifruit.
For a veggie, romanesco or artichoke.

[debm55]

22. Thank you very much, ProfessorGAC. Great selections.

[electric_blue68]

46. Almost sure you'll appreciate this...

I found out about fractals, and The Mandelbrot Set back in the ?mid-'80's through an exhibit at the once IBM building's ground floor Museum, was Science, and Art.

Anyway they had a big monitor (? 2 ft x 2 ft) with a "Zoom the Mandelbrot" feature. I think you could go down 10 -12 places in. And you could set the number of iterations, and choose various color schemes. I'd stayed therir default red, green and blue, (the deepest color) for most of it. I realized if I set the iterations higher I'd get more, and more complicated patterns! Wow. So beautiful.

But then on my last regular day I switched to black, navy, ultramarine, cerelean blues, turquoise through white gradations. The curving arms in the ?"horseshoe valley" in those colors reminded me of the arms of a spiral galaxy! Swoon.

I played with this for 3-4 days w hardly anyone wanting to try it. Hours of amazing fun and visuals!
Finally the last day #5 I hardly got to go on it - because Scientific America had just come out with their article on fractals, Mandelbrot Set. Somehow the science people up on the IBM floors suddenly found out about this interactive exhibit, and came pouring downstairs to try it out.

Soooo.... romanesco?
This was fairly after my IBM museum Mandelbrot adventure.
Well, my mom came home with one from the Green Market! I'd never seen, nor heard of it!
But, squeee, it looks like fractals! I laughed w joy - who knew!

Double checking on it to make sure I had it right - they mention it's fractal nature, and fibinnochi feature. 😄👍

[ProfessorGAC]

47. Sounds Cool!

I would have been one of the science-y types who flocked down there.
Back in the Commodore 64, I just set up a simple peek/poke script with randomly selected values from a lookup table to create random color shapes on the TV.
Didn't have any value, but it looked cool.
So I get why something way more sophisticated would be fascinating.

[electric_blue68]

48. Neat!....

Not the best at science re: physics, chemistry, and, omg, math (though I did well in geometry which I link to my artistic abilities).

But I enjoy, and follow the Earth & Space sciences in particular. And other areas will catch my attention from time to time .
I sometimes understand fairly complex items, and theories in certain areas.

They tested my IQ as a kid bc I was a preemie who underwent newly already tested, and ready for the general public preemie population who needed it (sucessful) oxygen therapy. I vaguely remember this (the IQ test). I think they found I had a high level of the ability to ?conceptionalize. 🙂👍

[LoisB]

23. It's a tie between collard greens, broccoli, spinach, and watermelon.

[debm55]

26. Thank you very much for sharing with us LoisB, Enjoy.

[OldBaldy1701E]

80. I cannot argue with any of those!

Excellent choices!

[LoisB]

81. Thank you, OldBaldy1701E.

[JMCKUSICK]

24. Here comes a curveball, Wasabi

Love it!

[debm55]

25. Thank you very much, John. Enjoy.

[Ilsa]

27. Fruit: kiwi. Vegetable: English peas. nt

[debm55]

28. Thank you ,llsa for sharing your selections. Enjoy.

[Iris]

30. Okra

[debm55]

35. Thank you Iris. Enjoy you for sharing your Okra with us.

[CTyankee]

95. I grew up in Texas and we had okra a lot, just steamed and with a little butter.

I came to the north east and find really negative attitudes about it. People said they didn't like the "slime" which I though was just part of the vegetable and enjoyed it.

[Iris]

96. Ha! Yes. When we lived in MD the only way I saw okra

Was in Campbell's vegetable soup - tiny green circles with nice design in the center!

I use my souther MILs cast iron skillet to sautee it - the "slime" helps make it crunchy after a while!

[CTyankee]

97. Cast iron skillet! Every southern kitchen had one so you could make your fried chicken with cream gravy!

I had one of those in each house I lived in until I got to CT and thought to myself "why am I making fried chicken anyway?" But I loved that slimy (and hairy) okra a lot. For some reason, people up north thought slimy, hairy food was a bad thing....

[sdfernando]

31. The Avocado is my hands down winner! /nt

[debm55]

36. Thank you for sharing your selection with us, sdfernando. Enjoy.

[SorellaLaBefana]

58. Avocado: As must maintain Lefty Sterotype. Besides Bobby Burns immortalized it in his famous "Ode to an Avocado"

Good luck to you and your honest, plump face,
Great chieftain of the fruitie race!
Above them all you take your place,
Green, pebbly, and grand:
Well are you worthy of a grace
As long as my hand.

Robert Burns
Circa 1790, Private Papers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns

[sdfernando]

59. Awesome!!

[SorellaLaBefana]

60. Och Aye, Bobby Burns be the grandest poet o' them a'

[debm55]

61. Thank you for sharing that with us, SorellaLaBefana.

[SorellaLaBefana]

62. Aye, nae borra

"no bother"

[Tikki]

32. Love most of the green leavies. DO NOT like avocados..whatever animal it is.

Tikki

[debm55]

37. Thank you very much, Tikki for sharing with us.

[sdfernando]

63. More the better for me.

Leafy greens are always welcome on my plate!

[MuseRider]

33. Can't make up my mind.

Looking at all the choices I might have to say Brussels Sprouts. Just cooked up a batch last night, mmmmmm.

[debm55]

39. Thank you MuseRider for sharing with us. Were there any leftovers? Enjoy.

[MuseRider]

41. Not now! ,-)

[debm55]

52. HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHH

[Laffy Kat]

38. Sauteed spinach for veg.

Watermelon for fruit.

[debm55]

40. Thank you very much for your choices Laffy Kat. Enjoy.

[Luciferous]

42. Probably broccoli

[debm55]

51. Thank you very much, Luciferous for sharing and enjoy the broccoli.

[beemerphill]

43. Green Beans

IF there is some sazanador to shake on them. Lettuce ranks a close second, IF it's white. My wife said broccoli, but she was just kidding, I hope.

[debm55]

53. Thank you Mr. and Mrs. beemerphill for your selections. Enjoy them.

[doc03]

44. Broccoli and peaches (hard to find good ones)

[debm55]

50. Thank you very much, doc03, for your suggestions. Peaches are good the mid to the end of August. Enjoy.

[Chipper Chat]

45. Purslane

It's a weed that if you're luck grows in your yard. I had some in a combination salad yesterday.

[debm55]

49. Thank you very much, Chipper Chat. I know we have weeds in the yard, but I don't know if any are Pursiane.I will look it

up, Thank you for the suggestion.

[Inkey]

54. No fans of the humble

Olive ?
I remember as a kid not being a big fan
of them - green cocktail ones in jar or
canned black ones. I admit we used to
have fun putting the pitiless ones on our
finger tips before eating then, but the
flavor was always disappointing.
It wasn't until I was adult shopping on
my own that I discovered many more
flavored varieties that were available.
It was then I became a fan the real fan.

[debm55]

55. Thank you very much inkey. Yes, you are the one and only olive fan. Congratulations and enjoy.

[Polly Hennessey]

56. It is broccoli. Love it raw. Second would be cucumber.🥒

[debm55]

57. I agree, Polly Hennessey. with both. When I was in college many years ago, there was a little French bistro. They served

cold French cucumber soup. It was delicious. Every day I stopped and got a cup of it. I have always relied on my memories to remember that soup.Enjoy your selections.

[senseandsensibility]

64. Probably avocado

Artichokes are good too. I just got five avocados on sale today, but they are hard as a rock, and will all ripen at once! Oh well, something to look forward to!

[debm55]

69. Good luck with all your avocado you bought. and thanks for sharing,

[CTyankee]

65. The king of vegetables: Asparagus!

A lovely vegetable, and rather scarce. I eat it with my fingers, slightly al dente.

[debm55]

68. Thank you for sharing with us, CTyankees.

[electric_blue68]

70. One my favs. But scarce?

[CTyankee]

71. Immortalized by Manet who painted "bunch of asparagus" so it was not rare in Paris in the late 1800s.

sorry, the image is selected to print here didn't print! It's a nice painting!

[Dem2theMax]

66. Avocados!

[debm55]

67. Me too, Thank you very much, Dem2theMax.

[catbyte]

72. Asparagus

There's onthing better than fresh-picked asparagus right out of the garden. Artichokes are a close second.

[debm55]

73. Thank you very much for sharing with us, catbyte. Enjoy.

[Emile]

74. Bell peppers

[debm55]

75. Yum. Thank you.Emile for sharing

[DFW]

76. Two way tie

Watercress and artichokes

[debm55]

77. Thank you very much for sharing, DFW. Enjoy

[SheltieLover]

78. Watermelon & all green veggies, except slimy okra

[debm55]

79. HAHAHAHHAH. Thank you SheltieLover. for sharing. I like the seedless watermelon. Enjoy.

[AltairIV]

82. Green Beans

Roasted with olive oil. shallots and crushed garlic.

[debm55]

83. oh that sounds so good. Thank you AltairIV for sharing with us. And enjoy.

[justaprogressive]

84. Limes!

the versatile fruit!

THERE ARE A HUNDRED AND ONE USES FOR A LIME...

Use the juice, grate the peel or plant the seed and grow a tree.

Slice it, wedge it or quarter it. Here are just a few ideas:

Of course, use lime with tea, iced or hot

Serve lime wedges with Florida oysters on the half shell.

Squeeze juice on oyster before eating.

Lime juice preserves the color of avocados, mangos, bananas
and apples; enhances the flavor of melons and papayas.
‘
A generous dash of lime juice in a cup of beef consomme,
adds excitement to an old stand-by.

‘The afficianado imbibes tequila ritually with salt at the base
of the thumb and a wedge of. lime held gallantly between
thumb and forefinger. One licks the salt, tosses off a shot of
the cactus liquor and sucks the lime, all in one easy, fluid motion

Rub fish with lime before cooking.

Put a slice of lime pierced with a whole clove in the bottom of your tea cup,

Put a dollop of slightly thawed limeade concentrate over your bowl of breakfast berries.

Float very thin slices of lime in clear soup.

Squeeze lime juice over melon balls and top with shredded
coconut for a palate pleasing end to a luncheon.

Before broiling chicken, “wash” in water to which lime juice has been added.

[debm55]

85. Wow. that you for all your uses of the lime, justaprogressive, In fact you are the first poster to mention the lime.

[justaprogressive]

86. noticed that

[3catwoman3]

87. Brussels sprouts roasted in olive oil...

…with garlic and turkey bacon. The more caramelized used the better.

[debm55]

88. Thank you very much 3catwoman3 for sharing with us. Enjoy

[TommieMommy]

89. Broccoli 🥦

[debm55]

90. Thank you very much for sharing with us, TommieMommy. And enjoy your broccoli

[retread]

91. Honeydew melon. This time of year are super sweet and juicy.

[debm55]

92. Thank you very much, retread. I love, love, love, Honeydew Melon. Thank you for sharing.

[Dorothy V]

93. I too love Granny Smith Apples! As for veggies, any of the crucifers, especilly collards and cabbage!

[debm55]

94. Thank you very much , Dorothy V. for sharing your selections with us.