Don't fight the dandelions, drink them.: Not me

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Don, since my early childhood, I have hated cooked vegetables with a vengeance. I used to sit at the dinner table long after everyone had left, because my mother tried to make me eat them. It didn't work. I would gag on them trying to swallow them. No one else in the family has that problem, and I did not copy anyone else.

I begged my mother to let me eat them raw, and she did. She had no choice. I have been eating all produce raw all my life, and lots of it, except for potatoes, yams, and red beets.

I have also learned to stir-fry them. That way, they are warmed up but still raw. That works fine with me, too.

Right now, I am sitting here drinking my favorite freshly extracted carrot juice. I use the pulp to bake muffins or to thicken soup.

-- posted by biogardener