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[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

i am reporting this post for spreading misinformation. this meme has some truth in it, in that these six vegetables are all brassica oleracea. but, the factoid in the center of the meme is false: brassica oleracea can be many things but (despite brassicaceae being "the mustard and cabbage family") brassica oleracea is NOT actually ever called "wild mustard plant".

[-] remon@ani.social 1 points 33 minutes ago

Damn these healthy GMOs!

[-] anton 6 points 4 hours ago

To all the veggie haters:

Broccoli recipe:

  1. Fry broccoli with paprika and small pieces of meat or tofu in a pan until brown.
  2. Add water and seasonings.
  3. Steam to desired hardness.
  4. Serve with rice or couscous.

Cauliflower recipe:

  1. Make brown butter by heating up butter and adding breadcrumbs to soak it up.
  2. Serve it on enough steamed cauliflower to justify the amount of brown butter you are about to eat.
[-] LSNLDN@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour ago

My recent favourite is broccoli roasted until crispy, so good. Before then it was crispy kale but as we all know it’s basically the same plant

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Here is a good one, Mashed cauliflower:

  1. Boil cauliflower
  2. submerge mixer with some milk
  3. enjoy the smoothest mash you have ever tried that comes out to like 40 calories per 100g

Roasted anything (brussel spouts, broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, asparagus)

  1. Coat in olive oil, salt, garlic powder
  2. air fry or roast

Enjoy awesome tasting veggies.

Veggie rice(white rice is for sushi goddamnit)

  1. Satuee some onions, garlic
  2. add some cut up bell peppers, tomatoes
  3. cook for a while
  4. add frozen peas and carrots and a choice of frozen vegetables (broccoli or green beans)
  5. add water and bring to a boil
  6. add the rice and simmer it for the prescribed time +1-2 minutes
  7. let it sit for 10 minutes

Enjoy a rice full of veggies and color ( I also use a "curry" mix that's turmeric, koriander and a bunch of other stuff that gives it a nice yellow color, and this way you have your rice and veggies in one and they enhance each other's flavor.

[-] rbos@lemmy.ca 55 points 11 hours ago

https://xkcd.com/2827/

[-] _hovi_@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

Always a relevant xkcd, isn't there

[-] f5xs_bhw0a@beehaw.org 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

scientific name

uppercase species

not even underlined or italicized

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 17 points 12 hours ago

This is news to me, but I was always kind of onto cauliflower just being albino broccoli, so not too surprised there.

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 20 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

We eat like 2 plants. One is brassica mentioned above.

The other one is nightshade. In the nightshade family we find tomatos, aubergine, tobacco, peppers, physalis, potatoes and of course the extremely toxic bella-donna (deadly nightshade)

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Just a small correction: you missed an "a" in bella-donna (bella donna means "beautiful woman" in Italian)

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 points 6 hours ago

I very much did!

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 hours ago

Doesn't sound like a complete diet

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 3 points 6 hours ago

"like" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 hours ago

to make the list a bit more complete there's also the rose plants (rosebuds, apples, plums, basically all the nice sweet fruits growing on trees and bushes), legumes, and of course grasses (basically all the grains are some form of grass seeds)

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 105 points 17 hours ago

Wait... it's all mustard?

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 hours ago

cabbage, to be more accurate

[-] Late2TheParty@lemmy.world 82 points 17 hours ago

Always has been.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 14 hours ago

How? Like... literally how?

I grow kale and it looks nothing like the plant in the OP. It looks like a regular bunch of kale.

Or is this like "all 6 vegetables come from one main vegetable", kind of like how all citrus fruits comes from citron.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 8 hours ago

Just like dog breeds look very distinct, but cranked up to eleven with horrible deformities. Imagine if we continued to breed chihuahuas to have bigger heads and smaller bodies until they are 90% head. Or breed a breed of hound to be smaller with increasingly bigger ears until it's 90% ears. They would still be dogs of the same species because they can procreate together.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago

Artificial selection!

If you think that’s amazing - look up what bananas looked like before human cultivation. Basically any fruit or vegetable you eat is the product of centuries of humans carefully selecting what seeds to save and plant.

[-] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 minutes ago

My wife and I had fried plantains at a Venezuelan restaurant a couple weeks ago. That shit was absolutely divine with beans, rice, meat, and a fried egg on top.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 23 points 13 hours ago

kind of like how all citrus fruits comes from citron.

This is what happened

[-] reattach@lemmy.world 17 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

No, it's cooler than that! All these vegetables are cultivars of the same species (Brassica oleracea). Citrus trees are different species with common origins.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

Citron broke my brain. If you're telling me this is mustard and only mustard, my brain might just die in confusion.

[-] reattach@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Relevant xkcd (my first time posting an image - fingers crossed)

https://xkcd.com/2827/

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[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 13 points 13 hours ago

🔫🌼 Always has been.

[-] match@pawb.social 10 points 12 hours ago

ancient and medieval europeans went through some shit

[-] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 34 points 16 hours ago

Wait, but I put mustard on my broccoli...

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 1 points 35 minutes ago

Mustard the condiments is from the seeds of different species. There are two types, oriental Brassica juncea and white mustard _Sinapsis alba _ that can be used.

Brassica juncea has been cultivated for a long time. With lots of different cultivars.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_juncea

[-] grue@lemmy.world 29 points 14 hours ago

Yo dawg, I heard you like mustard...

[-] don@lemm.ee 45 points 17 hours ago

And every one fucking delicious

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 37 points 16 hours ago

People have some hate boner against Brussels sprouts, but damn - if you know how to prepare them, they're delicious.

[-] Emmie@lemm.ee 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I actually prefer to eat them raw. A cup a day before sleeping. They act as sleeping pills for me

You get used to the taste and learn to enjoy it, same as with beer except they are good for you and increase hair density. It’s a real life equivalent of ent water

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 17 points 11 hours ago

Look, anything pan fried with butter, salt, black pepper, bacon and a little white wine is going to taste great...

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I literally just take them out of the freezer, drizzle a little bit of olive oil (1-3grams), salt, garlic powder and air fry them for 23 minutes at 200 C.

That's it.

Same recipe works with green beans, asparagus, broccoli

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I just bake them with a little oilve oil, salt and rosemary. That's all it takes. If I have the time I boil them for 5 minutes before cutting them in half and baking them.

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 35 points 15 hours ago
[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 17 points 15 hours ago

Selective breeding does play a role but also how you prepare them. Just like other brassicae if you cook them for too long they start smelling bad, so you want to use high heat and relatively short cooking times.

For example. My go-to approach is to cut them into halves and pan-fry in lard. High fire. People claim it's delicious.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 15 points 15 hours ago

I mean, things fried in lard do usually come out delicious.

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[-] Thelie@sh.itjust.works 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I've had this discussion before, had the "proper way" of preparing them explained to me and made them according to these instructions. Turns out, I just don't like the taste. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[-] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 30 points 17 hours ago

Does this mean I can put mustard on things instead of eating all these vegetables?

[-] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 hours ago

See, I like vegetables!

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