What's Your FAVORITE PRODUCE???

[NoGMO!]

I love to try new things... so please tell me something new to try!
OR add your own "top 10 list"... oops! mine ended up a top "30" list.

FAVORITE PRODUCE:
1.carrots
2.spinach
3.tomatoes
4.broccoli
5.avacado
6.apples
7.dates
8.bananas
9.zuchinni
10.eggplant
11.garlic
12.celery
13.mushrooms
14.citrus fruits - tangerine/grapefruit/orange/lemon/lime
15.kale
16.arugula
17.basil
18.onion - leeks, chives, red, yellow, green onions
19.peppers - bell, cayenne, habernero, chili
20.parsley
21.kiwi
22.caulflower
23.cucumber
24.cherries
25grapes
26apricots
27.peaches
28.figs
29.plums
30.melons

[VeganVixen]

Dino Kale
Dates (medjool)
Figs
tomatoes
cucumber
Arugula
Oranges
Mango
Strawberry
Lemon
Cilantro
Basil
Carrots
Ginger
Mache
Baby broccoli
Peaches
Nectarines
Pineapples
Sea veggies (ALL KINDS :) )
Yams
Banannas
swiss chard
GRAPES!!!!!
Apples
Mushrooms
Blue berries
Purple cabbage
Zuchinni

[Tanja_swe]

bananas
parsnips
spinach
dates
mango
PINEAPPLES!
strawberries
oranges
bell pepper
cucumber
lemons
watermelon
honeydewmelon
carrots
blueberries
blackberries
plums
papaya

WHITE CABBAGE - I almost forgot... my favourite :D!!!

[NoGMO!]

thanks Vegan Vixen and Tanja - we have the same shopping cart!! :p

P.S.
if you add something possibly considered unusual or mysterious by some - which is what I'm hoping for...
please tell how to best use it - I want to discover something new!

I see mysterious stuff on the produce shelf all the time and though intrigued, I don't usually buy it because I don't know what to do with it... ;)

*example - rutabaga - don't know how to use it???
and rhubarb? - as I saw on another thread.

maybe I should have called this thread "Favorite Obscure Produce" - hee-hee... :D

[Revvell]

Add:

jicama to the above lists ~

Eliminate:

mushrooms ~ ICCCCKKK!!!! (Except oyster with lemon and a bit of salt)

:)

Revvell

[Tanja_swe]

ooh jicama is great, as is pomelo :)

[mermaidinphilly]

shitake mushrooms!! i eat them like potato chips
corn
avocados
broccoli
braeburn apples
heirloom tomatoes
medjool dates (i need to cut down)
blood oranges
kumquats

[VeganVixen]

There is a GREAT rutabega recipe ,I will post it!!!!!!!!

fish fillets

2 rutabegas
2 cloves of garlic
a small pinch of salt or seasoning
2 1/2 teasppons of good oil (high quality olive oil is great)

be creative add some dill and squeeze some lemon !or add some italian herbs!

blend garlic,rutabegas,salt and oil to a grainy mix a place on deydrater sheet in rectangle like finger length or fillet shapes and dehydrate at 95 degrees for 11 hours

[rawpriestess]

and here, I thought you only wanted one, I was struggling trying to figure that out.

Well, my top produce is different for different reasons,

As something new, that I never tried before raw it would be
1. Dates

As something to use in raw food preparation it would be
1. onions, (as I never ate them raw much before, usually carmelized, and now I have two huge onion patches, where we grow onions all year long, because I use so many of them

As something I couldn't live without ever
1. Sun dried tomatoes, (although I make them myself, so they are organic, and I use alot of herbs)

As far as something that I love and add to almost everything
1. Basil

As far as what I eat almost every day
1. Bananas

As far as my favorite snack
1. Grapefruit

As far as my favorite tropical food
1. Pineapple

As far as my favorite all time, ate since I was a kid, can't get enough of
1. Oranges (I make juice every day)

And as far as my most weird thing I ever ate, and not sure I want to again, but am willing to be open and try, just once more
1. Durian

One more, as far as my most delicious, orgasmic, delectable, but hard to find truly fresh, and we grow it
1. raspberries

OOPS, I lied, One more, as far as I tried it when I was dancing in Japan, loved them, and can't find them here
1. Fresh Lichi nuts (they are like large white grapes, kind of fibrous, with dark red thick knobbly skin)
2. Weird small purple grapes (where you popped them, and the skin slipped off, which was very sour, but the grape inside was super sweet)
3. fresh melon (kind of like honey dew only $5.00 for 1/2 and that was in 1983)

[NoGMO!]

this thread is very fun and informative... I've never tried parsnips, mache, jicama, pomelo, kumquats, durian or lichi... neat!!

...and I can't wait to try out that Rutabaga recipe from Vegan Vixen - I like it's simple list of ingredients.

thanks.

[msmia]

OOPS, I lied, One more, as far as I tried it when I was dancing in Japan, loved them, and can't find them here
1. Fresh Lichi nuts (they are like large white grapes, kind of fibrous, with dark red thick knobbly skin)
2. Weird small purple grapes (where you popped them, and the skin slipped off, which was very sour, but the grape inside was super sweet)
3. fresh melon (kind of like honey dew only $5.00 for 1/2 and that was in 1983)

That reminds me of when I was in Thailand & would eat mangosteen from the market all the time -- I have never-ever seen fresh mangosteen in the USA.
I guess I'll have to try something new to see if I like it just as much...
Great thread...

[rawpriestess]

I've heard that you can not import mangosteen to the US, not sure why, but they do sell the juice in Xango, however it is highly processed.