What's your favorite vegetable for cooking?

United States
July 15, 2008 8:49pm CST
My favorite veggies for cooking are onion and squash. With those two ingredients, I could make almost any healthy dish, assuming that I had a full stocked pantry of spices. I love mixing those two veggies with pork, chicken or fish recipes. They work with just about everything. What are your favorite vegetables for cooking?
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@Shaun72 (15959)
• Palatka, Florida
16 Jul 08
Well one of mine is also onion the other one is mushrooms. I like to use both of these when I cook chicken or pork chops. They usally go great with about any meat that I cook.
@Shaun72 (15959)
• Palatka, Florida
16 Jul 08
Thank you. I think tonight for dinner I will cook pork chops with onions and myshrooms.
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• United States
16 Jul 08
Let me know how it goes, and I'll put mushrooms on the grocery list. I'm down to bare shelves right now, so it's definitely grocery day!
• United States
16 Jul 08
I hadn't thought of using mushrooms! You always have such creative ideas!
• Australia
16 Jul 08
I think my favourite would have to be avacado and tomatoe for a meal that requires no cooking. For a meal that requires cooking then it would have to be mushroom and onion..Im so hungry now..
• United States
16 Jul 08
Avocado! That's so exotic. Does it taste good cooked?
• United States
16 Jul 08
Veggie sandwiches are always nice! Very healthy too.
• Australia
16 Jul 08
It tastes nice when warmed up in a sandwich.. I dont know about it being properly cooked.
• Australia
16 Jul 08
I love potatoes and garlic. I would have said onion before my husband came along but he has such a severe hatred of onion that he cannot eat it at all. I love garlic as my substitute for onion - and it is good for my health too. Potatoes are a great versatile vegetable that you can eat in so many ways, baked, boiled, mashed, fried in scollops, made into chips, crisps, potato soup, potatoes in soup whole or diced or even in a bubble and squeak. I am sure there are many other ways that I can't think of now. Potatoes with garlic on them - now there's an idea!
• United States
16 Jul 08
That sounds divine!
• Australia
16 Jul 08
Now that does sound yummy! :)
@lilybug (21107)
• United States
16 Jul 08
Garlic, onions, potatoes, and mushrooms are some of my favorites to use in cooking. I use onion in just about everything and since my son will eat potatoes in just about any form I cook a lot of those.
• United States
16 Jul 08
Mine is not a big veggie eater. She is working into it.
@jer31558 (3683)
• United States
16 Jul 08
I think that for me it would be tomatoes...unless tomatoes are a fruit this week. I can never keep up with which veggies are fruits and which fruits are veggies. The tomato is so versatile though that it can be used in many dishes regardless of what country made that dish popular.
• United States
16 Jul 08
I think they count as both. Tomotoes are so good in chilli and soups, too! Very healthy.
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@jer31558 (3683)
• United States
21 Jul 08
Tomatoes are great. I think that I like them as good raw as I do cooked. I especially like tomato sandwiches.
@yenwie84 (1344)
• Malaysia
16 Jul 08
There is no specific favorite vegetable that I always use in my cooking. I love to eat vegetables,any will do. But one thing for sure is every time I cook,I will always include onion in the food. Onions make the food more delicious especially when I cook soup. Another veggie is celery. Celery is good veggie to mix with lamb and make lamb stew. Together with celery,I will add in carrots,tomatoes and onions. It's really tasted good! Yummy,yummy.....
• United States
16 Jul 08
Celery is so good! Last night I had pickle relish with celery in it for my salmon noodle dish and it was so yummy!
@GardenGerty (160665)
• United States
16 Jul 08
In addition to onions and squash please give me garlic, peppers both sweet and hot and mushrooms. I think I want a pizza now, please. I love little zucchini sliced raw in salads.
• United States
16 Jul 08
That's so funny! I almost ordered delivery pizza tonight!
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• Canada
16 Jul 08
I prefer most of my vegetables raw, but the one vegetable that I absoluely love cooked is a nice cooked potato. YUMMY!!
• United States
16 Jul 08
I do the baked (microwave) potato for every meal. When I have butter, that is. Right now I'm out of butter, so no baked potatoes!
@ketybhagat (4123)
• India
16 Jul 08
With onions and potatoes, one can make any dish with ginger and garlic paste. Add to that green chillies and celery and then put in any vegetable or non veg and you get a tasty dish with spices. Of course, how can i forget tomatoes.
• United States
16 Jul 08
I'm going to try that ginger and garlic paste. Sounds really good!
@GreenMoo (11834)
16 Jul 08
I agree that onions are very useful. You can include them in just about anything so they're pretty much a staple. I really prefer a variety of veg in anything I cook. I think that's what gives things a nice flavour, so other than onions I'd find it hard to pick out a particular favourite. What I really likes is coming up from the garden with a bagful of whatever it ripe and making a meal from what's available.
• United States
16 Jul 08
Sure! I would love a garden. So practical!
@raclie (1732)
• Singapore
16 Jul 08
umm... when i read your post i felt so hungry!!! i like it when my mom uses cut chilies and onion.... and maybe chives... they taste really great!!!!
• United States
16 Jul 08
Oh, that sounds really good. I will have to put chives on my grocery list and chillis! I love any kind of spicy pepper.
@nupats (3564)
• India
16 Jul 08
well my favourite vegeables for cooking are onion, tomato, ginger and garlic these are the base in most of the dishes that we prepare...so these are always stocked in my fridge..have a nice day..
• United States
16 Jul 08
Ginger is so yummy!
@agihcam (1914)
• Philippines
16 Jul 08
Turnip - Good to eat during summer season
My favorite is stew vegetables with pork liver, beans, cabbage, carrots, potato, and turnip. You can add more if you want.
• United States
16 Jul 08
I am going to try the cabbage and turnip idea! I do lots of grilling and would love to try those veggies in my next big family grilled dinner. Thanks!
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
17 Jul 08
I like cooking with onions, brocolli, cauliflower and carrotts. Those are my favorites. They go great with chicken or beef. They are excellent to use in stir frys. I like to use them for making chicken or beef terriaki. The mixtures of the veggies adds color and crunch!
@1grnthmb (2055)
• United States
17 Jul 08
I love onions, garlic, green peeper and mushrooms. I make a lot with these four ingredients. Some times throwing in something else to add variety
@sweetlady10 (3611)
• United States
16 Jul 08
I like to cook potato, onion, cabbage, eggplant, spinach etc. I use potatoes a lot. It is one of my favorite vegetable. There are lots of other vegetables also which I like to cook occasionally.
@vampoet (825)
• Singapore
16 Jul 08
i like to use long beans for cooking.i can mix it with eggs ,onions ,garlic ,mushroom and chicken .i can make healthy dishes .another vegetable i like is spinach it makes you strong and healthy. its smell is incredibaly strong if fried with onions and garlics.but now it seems like i like onions and garlics more than any other vegetable i use them in almost every dish!what is squash anyway
• Australia
16 Jul 08
I use onions in cooking a lot and sometimes wonder if there was none would the dishes taste as good ,carrots,parsnip, cooked and mashed together with a little butter through it yum. and capsicum red and green very tasty
@magojordan (3252)
• Philippines
16 Jul 08
My favorite would be garlic. onion and carrots. The first two add all the necessary flavor to the dish while the third one gives it more visual appeal to the dish. Actually all the dishes also become more filling if we add vegetables like carrots. Also almost all the things that I could cook contains at least two of these three.
16 Jul 08
I think my fave is onion. I use it with everything.. I love garlic, but I'm not sure that's a veggie!