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debm55

(50,220 posts)
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 01:02 PM Aug 2

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

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What is your favorite green fruit or vegetable. Can be green on the inside or outside. Me--Granny Smith Apples (Original Post) debm55 Aug 2 OP
green beans! Just bought some at the Farmers Market and will have lunch; riversedge Aug 2 #1
Getting about a pound a day from the garden... MiHale Aug 2 #2
Thank you very much riversedge, Enjoy your lunch debm55 Aug 2 #3
Watermelon Radish... MiHale Aug 2 #4
Thank you very much, MiHale. This is the first time I heard of them . Thank you for sharing. debm55 Aug 2 #5
Hee, hee, hee - they're adorable! How pretty! Ty. electric_blue68 Aug 2 #13
Thank you very much for the link with watermelon-radish, MiHale. They do look like little watermelons. debm55 Aug 2 #15
Avocados sorcrow Aug 2 #6
Thank you very much, socrow. I agree---yummy debm55 Aug 2 #7
Toast enid602 Aug 2 #29
Wow, Thank you enid602 and enjoy your lunch and trip. debm55 Aug 2 #34
I think spinach is awesome! pandr32 Aug 2 #8
Thank you very much for spinach. pandr32. I so enjoy Spanakopita. debm55 Aug 2 #9
This half Greek-American loves Spanakopita! electric_blue68 Aug 2 #14
Kiwi ! and then honorable mentions for a whole list stopdiggin Aug 2 #10
Wow, what a list. Thank you, stopdiggin. for the assortment of green fruits and veggies. debm55 Aug 2 #16
Broccoli. It's versatile, delicious and very nutritious... ms liberty Aug 2 #11
Thank you ms. liberty for including broccoli and their various uses. debm55 Aug 2 #17
Avocado, hands down! Veggie would probably be asparagus. electric_blue68 Aug 2 #12
Thank you very much, electric_blue68 for your green choices. debm55 Aug 2 #18
I like every green vegetable, even okra! 😁 But if I had KitFox Aug 2 #19
Thank you very much for your selections. KitFox. Enjoy. debm55 Aug 2 #20
Fruit, I'll Go With Your Choice, Or... ProfessorGAC Aug 2 #21
Thank you very much, ProfessorGAC. Great selections. debm55 Aug 2 #22
Almost sure you'll appreciate this... electric_blue68 Aug 2 #46
Sounds Cool! ProfessorGAC Aug 2 #47
Neat!.... electric_blue68 Aug 2 #48
It's a tie between collard greens, broccoli, spinach, and watermelon. LoisB Aug 2 #23
Thank you very much for sharing with us LoisB, Enjoy. debm55 Aug 2 #26
I cannot argue with any of those! OldBaldy1701E Aug 4 #80
Thank you, OldBaldy1701E. LoisB Aug 4 #81
Here comes a curveball, Wasabi JMCKUSICK Aug 2 #24
Thank you very much, John. Enjoy. debm55 Aug 2 #25
Fruit: kiwi. Vegetable: English peas. nt Ilsa Aug 2 #27
Thank you ,llsa for sharing your selections. Enjoy. debm55 Aug 2 #28
Okra Iris Aug 2 #30
Thank you Iris. Enjoy you for sharing your Okra with us. debm55 Aug 2 #35
I grew up in Texas and we had okra a lot, just steamed and with a little butter. CTyankee Aug 5 #95
Ha! Yes. When we lived in MD the only way I saw okra Iris Aug 5 #96
Cast iron skillet! Every southern kitchen had one so you could make your fried chicken with cream gravy! CTyankee Aug 5 #97
The Avocado is my hands down winner! /nt sdfernando Aug 2 #31
Thank you for sharing your selection with us, sdfernando. Enjoy. debm55 Aug 2 #36
Avocado: As must maintain Lefty Sterotype. Besides Bobby Burns immortalized it in his famous "Ode to an Avocado" SorellaLaBefana Aug 3 #58
Awesome!! sdfernando Aug 3 #59
Och Aye, Bobby Burns be the grandest poet o' them a' SorellaLaBefana Aug 3 #60
Thank you for sharing that with us, SorellaLaBefana. debm55 Aug 3 #61
Aye, nae borra SorellaLaBefana Aug 3 #62
Love most of the green leavies. DO NOT like avocados..whatever animal it is. Tikki Aug 2 #32
Thank you very much, Tikki for sharing with us. debm55 Aug 2 #37
More the better for me. sdfernando Aug 3 #63
Can't make up my mind. MuseRider Aug 2 #33
Thank you MuseRider for sharing with us. Were there any leftovers? Enjoy. debm55 Aug 2 #39
Not now! ,-) MuseRider Aug 2 #41
HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHH debm55 Aug 2 #52
Sauteed spinach for veg. Laffy Kat Aug 2 #38
Thank you very much for your choices Laffy Kat. Enjoy. debm55 Aug 2 #40
Probably broccoli Luciferous Aug 2 #42
Thank you very much, Luciferous for sharing and enjoy the broccoli. debm55 Aug 2 #51
Green Beans beemerphill Aug 2 #43
Thank you Mr. and Mrs. beemerphill for your selections. Enjoy them. debm55 Aug 2 #53
Broccoli and peaches (hard to find good ones) doc03 Aug 2 #44
Thank you very much, doc03, for your suggestions. Peaches are good the mid to the end of August. Enjoy. debm55 Aug 2 #50
Purslane Chipper Chat Aug 2 #45
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 debm55 Aug 2 #49
No fans of the humble Inkey Aug 2 #54
Thank you very much inkey. Yes, you are the one and only olive fan. Congratulations and enjoy. debm55 Aug 2 #55
It is broccoli. Love it raw. Second would be cucumber.🥒 Polly Hennessey Aug 2 #56
I agree, Polly Hennessey. with both. When I was in college many years ago, there was a little French bistro. They served debm55 Aug 2 #57
Probably avocado senseandsensibility Aug 3 #64
Good luck with all your avocado you bought. and thanks for sharing, debm55 Aug 3 #69
The king of vegetables: Asparagus! CTyankee Aug 3 #65
Thank you for sharing with us, CTyankees. debm55 Aug 3 #68
One my favs. But scarce? electric_blue68 Aug 4 #70
Immortalized by Manet who painted "bunch of asparagus" so it was not rare in Paris in the late 1800s. CTyankee Aug 4 #71
Avocados! Dem2theMax Aug 3 #66
Me too, Thank you very much, Dem2theMax. debm55 Aug 3 #67
Asparagus catbyte Aug 4 #72
Thank you very much for sharing with us, catbyte. Enjoy. debm55 Aug 4 #73
Bell peppers Emile Aug 4 #74
Yum. Thank you.Emile for sharing debm55 Aug 4 #75
Two way tie DFW Aug 4 #76
Thank you very much for sharing, DFW. Enjoy debm55 Aug 4 #77
Watermelon & all green veggies, except slimy okra SheltieLover Aug 4 #78
HAHAHAHHAH. Thank you SheltieLover. for sharing. I like the seedless watermelon. Enjoy. debm55 Aug 4 #79
Green Beans AltairIV Aug 4 #82
oh that sounds so good. Thank you AltairIV for sharing with us. And enjoy. debm55 Aug 4 #83
Limes! justaprogressive Aug 4 #84
Wow. that you for all your uses of the lime, justaprogressive, In fact you are the first poster to mention the lime. debm55 Aug 4 #85
noticed that justaprogressive Aug 4 #86
Brussels sprouts roasted in olive oil... 3catwoman3 Aug 4 #87
Thank you very much 3catwoman3 for sharing with us. Enjoy debm55 Aug 4 #88
Broccoli 🥦 TommieMommy Aug 4 #89
Thank you very much for sharing with us, TommieMommy. And enjoy your broccoli debm55 Aug 4 #90
Honeydew melon. This time of year are super sweet and juicy. retread Aug 4 #91
Thank you very much, retread. I love, love, love, Honeydew Melon. Thank you for sharing. debm55 Aug 4 #92
I too love Granny Smith Apples! As for veggies, any of the crucifers, especilly collards and cabbage! Dorothy V Aug 4 #93
Thank you very much , Dorothy V. for sharing your selections with us. debm55 Aug 4 #94

debm55

(50,220 posts)
5. Thank you very much, MiHale. This is the first time I heard of them . Thank you for sharing.
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 01:12 PM
Aug 2

debm55

(50,220 posts)
15. Thank you very much for the link with watermelon-radish, MiHale. They do look like little watermelons.
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 01:44 PM
Aug 2

sorcrow

(622 posts)
6. Avocados
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 01:12 PM
Aug 2

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

enid602

(9,514 posts)
29. Toast
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 02:41 PM
Aug 2

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

stopdiggin

(14,258 posts)
10. Kiwi ! and then honorable mentions for a whole list
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 01:19 PM
Aug 2

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 ...

ms liberty

(10,479 posts)
11. Broccoli. It's versatile, delicious and very nutritious...
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 01:20 PM
Aug 2

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.

electric_blue68

(23,387 posts)
12. Avocado, hands down! Veggie would probably be asparagus.
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 01:24 PM
Aug 2

A very crisp, fresh romaine lettuce is quite tasty.

KitFox

(365 posts)
19. I like every green vegetable, even okra! 😁 But if I had
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 02:06 PM
Aug 2

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

electric_blue68

(23,387 posts)
46. Almost sure you'll appreciate this...
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 07:59 PM
Aug 2

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

(74,083 posts)
47. Sounds Cool!
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 08:15 PM
Aug 2

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

(23,387 posts)
48. Neat!....
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 08:55 PM
Aug 2

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. 🙂👍

CTyankee

(66,892 posts)
95. I grew up in Texas and we had okra a lot, just steamed and with a little butter.
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 10:32 AM
Aug 5

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

(16,576 posts)
96. Ha! Yes. When we lived in MD the only way I saw okra
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 11:56 AM
Aug 5

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

(66,892 posts)
97. Cast iron skillet! Every southern kitchen had one so you could make your fried chicken with cream gravy!
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 01:02 PM
Aug 5

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....

SorellaLaBefana

(407 posts)
58. Avocado: As must maintain Lefty Sterotype. Besides Bobby Burns immortalized it in his famous "Ode to an Avocado"
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 10:14 AM
Aug 3
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

MuseRider

(34,911 posts)
33. Can't make up my mind.
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 02:54 PM
Aug 2

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

beemerphill

(581 posts)
43. Green Beans
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 04:37 PM
Aug 2

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

(50,220 posts)
50. Thank you very much, doc03, for your suggestions. Peaches are good the mid to the end of August. Enjoy.
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 10:05 PM
Aug 2

Chipper Chat

(10,548 posts)
45. Purslane
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 05:25 PM
Aug 2

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

debm55

(50,220 posts)
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
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 10:01 PM
Aug 2

up, Thank you for the suggestion.

Inkey

(425 posts)
54. No fans of the humble
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 11:11 PM
Aug 2

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

(50,220 posts)
55. Thank you very much inkey. Yes, you are the one and only olive fan. Congratulations and enjoy.
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 11:17 PM
Aug 2

debm55

(50,220 posts)
57. I agree, Polly Hennessey. with both. When I was in college many years ago, there was a little French bistro. They served
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 11:25 PM
Aug 2

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

(23,417 posts)
64. Probably avocado
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 07:01 PM
Aug 3

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!

CTyankee

(66,892 posts)
65. The king of vegetables: Asparagus!
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 07:55 PM
Aug 3

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

CTyankee

(66,892 posts)
71. Immortalized by Manet who painted "bunch of asparagus" so it was not rare in Paris in the late 1800s.
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 06:42 AM
Aug 4

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

catbyte

(37,609 posts)
72. Asparagus
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 07:12 AM
Aug 4

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

justaprogressive

(5,174 posts)
84. Limes!
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 11:25 AM
Aug 4

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

(50,220 posts)
85. Wow. that you for all your uses of the lime, justaprogressive, In fact you are the first poster to mention the lime.
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 11:32 AM
Aug 4

3catwoman3

(27,490 posts)
87. Brussels sprouts roasted in olive oil...
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 12:45 PM
Aug 4

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

debm55

(50,220 posts)
92. Thank you very much, retread. I love, love, love, Honeydew Melon. Thank you for sharing.
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 05:34 PM
Aug 4

Dorothy V

(385 posts)
93. I too love Granny Smith Apples! As for veggies, any of the crucifers, especilly collards and cabbage!
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 06:07 PM
Aug 4
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