When cooking....

@quispy (572)
United States
February 20, 2007 5:50pm CST
When you are making a beef stew or a chicken soup, do you use fresh vegetables or frozen? I always used to used fresh vegetables, but now find it so much easier to use the frozen. Okay, so maybe I'm getting lazy! What do you use?
8 responses
@BlackBay (584)
• Canada
20 Feb 07
Oh you gotta use fresh veggies, espeacially when making homemade chicken soup, there's so much more flavour.
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@quispy (572)
• United States
20 Feb 07
I do agree with you, but sometimes I just don't have it in me!
@imsilver (1665)
• Canada
21 Feb 07
I'd much rather use fresh vegetables. I make up the homemade soups that sit on the stove all day or in the crockpot. When the fresh veggies soak in the soup all day they just pick up the flavour.
@quispy (572)
• United States
21 Feb 07
fresh it is!
@SimplyJo (1694)
• India
21 Feb 07
Oh i always use fresh vegetables. My mom uses frozen peas at times, apart from that, neither of us use frozen foods..they are not really bad or anything, infact, better in terms of storage and less time consuming to buy and bake.. still, somehow, fresh it is for us :)
• Australia
21 Feb 07
I always use fresh vegetables with the exception of beans, peas, corn, cauliflower and broccoli. I have my own vegie garden so have them stored in the freezer.
@quispy (572)
• United States
21 Feb 07
good for you!
@Jocelynk (130)
• Canada
21 Feb 07
I use fresh vegetables - I meal plan and near the end of the week, I'll have a bunch of veggies leftover from the big shopping trip, so I'm make a stew out of it.
• United States
21 Feb 07
I've always used fresh vegetables in my soups and stews. I find that it adds more flavour and I've never bothered with the frozen ones. Fresh veggies would taste better and hold up well in the recipies I make so I don't think I'd ever switch over to frozen ones.
@quispy (572)
• United States
21 Feb 07
okay, okay, I'll have to start using them again! LOL
• United States
21 Feb 07
As much as I would love to use fresh veggies in my chicken soup but frozen veggies make it so much faster to make. But if the recipe just call for 2 kinds of veggies, then I use it fresh. But more than that...thanks God for frozen vegetables.
@carlaabt (3504)
• United States
21 Feb 07
I almost always use frozen. I generally only make stew during the winter, and then it's too cold to bundle up the baby and head out to the grocery store for fresh vegetables. Plus they cost so much more! We only shop twice a month and don't have room to leave a lot of extra vegetables in the fridge so it's not convenient to get them unless I know I will be cooking them the next day. My husband is good about stopping by to get milk and bread and stuff like that in between, but I hate giving him a long shopping list, so we just cook with frozen veggies instead.