I’m wondering because last night I was thinking about how, to me, garlic is the food of the gods. And I just ate three small cloves of garlic raw.
What a kick to the taste buds.
Mangos. I feel like I’m eating Gods pussy. I have juices all over my chin when I’m finished.
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One of my favorite fruits. Someone from Jamaica told me the US’s mangos are bullshit to the point they don’t eat mangos here. That Jamaica has many kinds of mangos that are way better. I really want to go eat a crazy amount of different mangos in Jamaica now.
Avocado. Hands down.
We don’t usually think of it as being cooked, but it can be grilled (cut sidedown on a grill for a few minutes then filled with salsa or beans, the grill make it smokey but the inside stays creamy), baked and stuffed, seared in a pan, cooked in a soup, and there are avocado fries. But it is delicious and often best uncooked, literally just completely on its own with nothing else it is rich and nutritionally substantial. It often is eaten totally on its own, or maybe with a little salt sprinkled on it but also sliced up and put on/in just about any Mexican food or put on sandwiches or in salads. Its flavor can be nutty, faintly sweet, even “grassy” and even though its delicious its subtle enough it doesn’t compete to overpower whatever else its with is partly what makes it so versatile.
Obviously as guacamole it is once again highly versatile.
It works for lunch, dinner, snack, and even breakfast or dessert depending on how it’s used since its fat and creaminess can stand in as butter or oil for everything from brownies to mousses to frozen desserts. It is essentially plant-made butter and was even called “poor man’s butter” in places where it was common and cheap. It is ridiculously healthy largely because it is so dense with healthy fats. Those monounsaturated fats are healthy in their own right but also help the body take up nutrients from other parts of a meal, and they provide high satiety, they actually help make you feel full and sated. On top of that, avocados are loaded with micronutrients we need. I’ve read somewhere that if there was only one single food a person could eat and nothing else, (not that that would be a good idea, just like if you were cursed and had to choose only one) then avocado is in the front running for the best candidate because it has more stuff you need in a single place than just about any other single food. And to me at least, it would also be in the running purely for its taste.
Avocados do three great (and rare in the SAD) things, they nourish like a whole food, satisfy like a luxury ingredient, and adapts to tons of different uses/cusines as an addition or even as the primary aspect of the dish.
Oh yeah and millennial avocado toast.
My favorite way to eat avocado is to cut it in half and peel it, dust it with black salt and pepper, and pretend I’m eating boiled eggs
Nice. I’ve never actually eaten one that way but maybe I’ll give it a try. The only problem with avocados is that they can get messy to handle and that way sounds like it would be hard to avoid the mess aspect. Doesn’t mean it’s not another good method though. But the “yolk” of your hardboiled egg-ocado is going to be rather tough!
When I’m eating one just on its own or sprinkled with salt, I usually halve it along the length, take the pit out of whichever half it ended up in, then use a spoon to scoop out all the goodness from inside the peel like it’s two little single-use bowls. For slices, I do the same thing but I make the cuts while the “meat” (pulp) is still in the “bowl.” That way when you scoop them out with a spoon placed just inside the peel, the slices are all ready-made and uniformly sized and you don’t even need a surface to cut them on. A friend who worked at a deli and would always make my avocado sandwiches taught me to do it that way.
I like avocados with drops of soy sauce.
I’ve read somewhere that if there was only one single food a person could eat and nothing else, (not that that would be a good idea, just like if you were cursed and had to choose only one) then avocado is in the front running for the best candidate because it has more stuff you need in a single place than just about any other single food.
I’ve eaten 3 large avocados at once and felt totally fine, so I believe what you’re saying.
Wild mushrooms have to be one. They are incredible and can provide all the umami you ever need, not to mention complex flavours. The vegan foods I make so often rely on shrooms, I use a lot of dried mushrooms.
There’s a species I like to pick that tastes like curry and if you put it somewhere sweet it tastes like liquorice. Amazing.
Pickled, dried, salted, raw, cooked… always great.
Edit. They are also a gift from the earth in a way that makes me feel very humbled. I can just walk into the forest and all these wonderful things are just there.
When I have very good shrooming luck like I did today, I do tend to say a thanks to the local spirits and gods of the forest, in true pagan fashion, lol. Those beliefs are still very much alive in the day to day customs even though we rarely think about it.
I just watched someone picking any mushroom they can, with an expert to help them know what is and isn’t edible and I’m like, “I have to go there(all the way to China) after a rain and pick mushrooms to eat with an expert one day!” And my boyfriend said, “Y’know you can do that anywhere(it rains) right? There are mushroom experts everywhere.”
That blew my mind. I thought mushroom hunting was this unreachable dream of mine, but maybe it’s more tangible of goal than I thought.
You should definitely do that, it’s the most amazing non-harmful way to “hunt” and an endless source of dopamine for all the senses.
At least here we have local mushroom clubs/unions, I belong to one. They do a lot of activities and teach others about all things fungi. Always be very very sure you know what it is you are picking and eating, I would start with the safe easy stuff like yellow chantarelles.
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A good, fresh porcini is a galaxy of flavour. Nothing I’ve had comes close.
Porcini mushrooms look so cute and chubby. Adorable.
Agreed. And if so lucky to have enough of them to dry them, the broths and things you can make from dried porcini are out of this world delicious.
chickpeas are great. you can get pallets of cans for cheap, use them for all sorts of dishes and if you have prep time you can cook them from dry and buy that in bulk.
very easy to turn into hummus or any number of dips, add into pasta dishes, curries, soups, wraps.
plus the fiber from them makes them nice and filling.
Fresh garden tomatoes.
Agreed. I’m trying to grow some.
Good luck, they’re such divas but worth if for the orgasmic flavor.
fr, couldn’t stand them for years until i had some amazing beef tomatoes grown on my neighbour’s allotment and I’ve been hooked since
Ripe fruit, in this morning’s case, a nectarine
maize is my #1 food. I like it best nixtamalized, but there are a ton of amazing corn meal recipes out there too. I eat tamales the most, but pupusas are my favorite. Classic style with pumpkin and pepitoria. Super nutritious and has a symbiotic relationship with pumpkin and beans.
Have you had waxy corn? You microwave or boil it. It has a slightly gooey, mochi-ish texture that I enjoy.
Ngl I’ve never heard of it before, but it sounds interesting.
I sometimes get mine at a Chinese supermarket.
Ye it looks like its a newer type of corn! I didn’t know there had been any maiz related innovations that I was missing out on.
I don’t think I understand the question but lentils are my favourite vegan ingredient I put them in all my warm meals
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Please dont put that in your soup.
it’s already a soup
It’s chickpeas and how dare you
Chana is right.
I swear the first post ever in c/food just said “Chickpeas”, with a bottom text of “upbears to the left”, but it must have been from a deactivated account.
I think I have onion in every meal of the day, every day of the week, and it never gets boring because there’s so many ways to have onions! Caramelized, dried, fried, baked, raw, powdered, it’s all so good. Red, green, white, yellow, gimme gimme gimme
I love onions, but they’re mostly a seasoning to me. I don’t think I can name a single meal where the onion is the main ingredient. Maybe you could argue onion rings, but even that’s basically seasoning for fried dough.
An onion bloom is more onion than breading, since the petals are thicker than onion rings.
Onions and yes
Watermelon. I could eat it everyday.
my first thought was dates, nature’s candy
put some peanut butter and a chocolate chip in there and you got yourself a healthy candy bar
my second thought was nooch lol all good answers in here though
Chili bean paste, I’m constantly making mapo tofu with it, im so addicted at this point
