What is the strangest old timey vegetable you have eaten

[satx78247]

Nopales.

yours, satx

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Loved eating wild onions when I was young...

:shocked2:

I bet that first-kiss was a long time arriving, too.

:haha:

LD

 

[satx78247]

CHUCKLE.

yours, satx

 

[Nativearizonan]

I like prickly pear. The fruits are fantastic when you are out hiking on a hot day and find a some real ripe purple ones. The pads are good too, but I prefer the pads from the cultivars with fewer spines. I dice them and fry them with eggs. They are another vegetable that is slimy, like okra, but also known for helping to regulate blood sugar.

 

[satx78247]

ME TOO.

Otoh, I frankly LOVE stewed okra & fresh tomatoes, cooked with onions/spices.

Slimy, YEP. But GOOD too, i you grew up on okra/tomatoes, as I did.
(My governess was a Creole lady from NOLA & she fed me New Orleans Creole food from the time that I graduated from "baby food" until I was in middle school.)

yours, satx

 

[Nativearizonan]

ME TOO.

Otoh, I frankly LOVE stewed okra & fresh tomatoes, cooked with onions/spices.

Slimy, YEP. But GOOD too, i you grew up on okra/tomatoes, as I did.
(My governess was a Creole lady from NOLA & she fed me New Orleans Creole food from the time that I graduated from "baby food" until I was in middle school.)

yours, satx

That sounds like what my we call Spanish Okra. I make it, as well as just frying okra with corn meal sometimes. I've eaten the boiled young okra by itself. Now that's slimy.

 

[sidelock]

I have only found one wild hazelnut tree--- years ago when I was about 9 years old. I remember it yet and wonder if it is still there 75 years later.

 

[Black Hand]

Do Carob seeds pulled out of the pod count?

 

[tenngun]

My mother loved health food stores. And in spurts growing up we all had to live through health store month. Carob was a big hit with her. I got to say carob was good in chips and bars and made a good shake. I started cooking in our house about eleven or twelve years old. I made carob chip cookies, cake and pie. Hot carb and milk drink in winter.
I know it was used for animal fodder. How was it in a whole pod state, did you cook with it at all?

 

[Black Hand]

Actually, it was the pod that I sampled (now that I think about it). The fruit looks much like a flat bean pod containing large seeds with a dark brown, sweet, sticky, fragrant pulp that looks like Date paste. There was a Carob tree that was a childhood "fort" as the branches grew to ground level and it had an opening - reminded me of a cave. I would break open the fallen pods and sample the pulp.

 

[coloradoclyde]

How about sprouts?... :haha:

 

[Black Hand]

How about sprouts?... :haha:

What kind?
I've eaten several varieties, but prefer the spicy sprouts (radish) on salad...

 

[coloradoclyde]

Let's see...I've has radish, alfalfa, pea, and corn.

 

[tenngun]

Neat.

 

[NeilMacleod]

I still have carob pods from 30 years ago. Too cold here to try grow them, pods still sweet, tried some when I found them.

 

[ny griz]

:thumbsup: Fiddle Heads.Griz

 

[Kansas Jake]

Tea from sumac berries,and have eaten wild parsnips, puff balls, lot of wild fruit.

 

[tenngun]

We had sassafras and sumac all over our place in Arkansas, one good wild patch of blackberry, and may apple.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Kohlrabi....I still run into people regularly that don't know what it is.....I tell them it's delicious. :haha:

 

[Rifleman1776]

Kohlrabi....I still run into people regularly that don't know what it is.....I tell them it's delicious. :haha:

You ARE my brother. :grin: