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St George of the Garden Gold Member Offline http://tinyurl.com/n 3o8m2x Posts: 9809 Gender:	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #345 - Mar 18^th, 2014 at 3:07pm Frances wrote on Mar 18^th, 2014 at 6:33am: Rhubarb. We use it like a fruit, but is it really a vegetable? Sort of like the reverse of the tomato which is really a fruit but generally used as a vegetable..... I have made tomato and vanilla jam and tomato and basil jam but they aren’t the best.
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Annie Anthrax Gold Member Offline Posts: 7062 Gender:	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #346 - Mar 18^th, 2014 at 3:36pm Frances wrote on Mar 18^th, 2014 at 2:06pm: Any particular variety of cheese? A good vintage cheddar with bite if on toast with marmalade. My favourite cheeses are brie and gorgonzola but they would either be overpowered by or annihilate a good tasting marmalade, I'm thinking. Will have to try it and see.
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muso Gold Member Offline Posts: 13151 Gladstone, Queensland Gender:	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #347 - Mar 18^th, 2014 at 5:45pm It's the salt and sweet combination. It seems to be making a comeback. I've always loved toast with crunchy peanut butter and strawberry jam.
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Re: Vegetable of the week thread
Reply #348 - Mar 18^th, 2014 at 8:53pm

St George of the Garden wrote on Mar 18^th, 2014 at 3:07pm:

Frances wrote on Mar 18^th, 2014 at 6:33am:

Rhubarb. We use it like a fruit, but is it really a vegetable? Sort of like the reverse of the tomato which is really a fruit but generally used as a vegetable.....

I have made tomato and vanilla jam and tomato and basil jam but they aren’t the best.

I was stewing some rhubarb slowly once (just rhubarb and sugar and a touch of ginger) and I left it on the hotplate for far too long and ended up making rhubarb jam instead. It was really nice on toast the next morning.....

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miketrees Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6492 Gender:	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #349 - Mar 18^th, 2014 at 10:26pm I cooked and ate a bunch of rocket tonight, am I going to die? I know you are meant to eat rocket is a salad but I had so much of it and its taking over the garden so I predated it.
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muso Gold Member Offline Posts: 13151 Gladstone, Queensland Gender:	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #350 - Mar 19^th, 2014 at 4:22pm miketrees wrote on Mar 18^th, 2014 at 10:26pm: I cooked and ate a bunch of rocket tonight, am I going to die? I know you are meant to eat rocket is a salad but I had so much of it and its taking over the garden so I predated it. I'm afraid so. I don't know when, but we are all mortal.
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Re: Vegetable of the week thread
Reply #351 - Mar 19^th, 2014 at 5:15pm

miketrees wrote on Mar 18^th, 2014 at 10:26pm:

I cooked and ate a bunch of rocket tonight, am I going to die?

I know you are meant to eat rocket is a salad but I had so much of it and its taking over the garden so I predated it.

I took a chance and ate wild rocket a couple of weeks back, delicious and didn't kill me...I thought it was a weed but no, actual rocket...I steamed it ....

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St George of the Garden Gold Member Offline http://tinyurl.com/n 3o8m2x Posts: 9809 Gender:	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #352 - Mar 20^th, 2014 at 11:45am Hmmm cut a thin slice of an ashed brie, put that on toast and covered that with marmalade. Didn’t really notice the cheese. Will try with a bity cheddar.
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Reply #353 - Mar 21^st, 2014 at 2:00pm

OK, got some nice bity Ashbourne black cloth cheddar, will try the cheese and marmalade thing again soon.

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I bought some fetta cheese, will try his vegetarian moussaka Sunday. Was going to grill some garfish tomorrow—wow, way dear! Bought some deep sea cod instead, probably deepfry that in batter (and not eat the batter.) They did have a pack frozen gar fillets, 1Kg $10 but who wants frozen fish? Break my teeth on it!

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Annie Anthrax Gold Member Offline Posts: 7062 Gender:	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #354 - Mar 21^st, 2014 at 2:11pm Brie and pate on toast is another good mix. You just have to let the toast cool a bit first or the brie just melts away.
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Reply #355 - Mar 21^st, 2014 at 7:27pm

Ok I know a mango is a fruit not a vegetable but i have to brag about my crop.
Usually here anything that remotely looks like a fruit gets eaten by the birds just after the fruit fly have infested it to death.

However a week ago or so the wind knocked a green mango off my tree.
I took the fruit inside and much to my surprise it still ripened up and had reasonable flavour.

So I left the rest of the crop on for another week or so then picked the lot of them, they are fantastic and full flavour.
I got them off the tree before the fruit fly stung them, cant do that with any other fruit around here, they get stung at half size.

Now I am going to plant a couple of other varieties of mango, I liked the Bangalore Mango when I lived in Carnarvon.

I live in the Perth Hills east of Perth, I can crop cherries and mangoes on the one place which has to be a bit unusual.

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Re: Vegetable of the week thread
Reply #357 - Mar 21^st, 2014 at 8:43pm

The Mole wrote on Mar 19^th, 2014 at 5:15pm:

miketrees wrote on Mar 18^th, 2014 at 10:26pm:

I cooked and ate a bunch of rocket tonight, am I going to die?

I know you are meant to eat rocket is a salad but I had so much of it and its taking over the garden so I predated it.

I took a chance and ate wild rocket a couple of weeks back, delicious and didn't kill me...I thought it was a weed but no, actual rocket...I steamed it ....

Steamed?

I've never heard of rocket being cooked before.

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miketrees Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6492 Gender:	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #358 - Mar 21^st, 2014 at 10:17pm Me neither Pecker, but its so close to mustard and I have seen people eating mustard florets. So I gave it a go, its quite strong but I quite liked it. I liked it better cooked than raw I thought it was a bit like Kale which is strong as well.
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St George of the Garden Gold Member Offline http://tinyurl.com/n 3o8m2x Posts: 9809 Gender:	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #359 - Mar 22^nd, 2014 at 11:49am Mangoes, eh? I have a banana tree near my house (for frost protection) and picked my first lot of bananas last week.
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