Adventures in Produce: Vegetable Patties
Jun. 3rd, 2017 05:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebContinuing my quest to find produce that my picky taste buds will approve
IKEA's
Recently, I got to taste a side dish at the IKEA cafe called Grönsakskaka or Vegetable Medallions. I liked them and wondered what was in them. The web page shows that it's mostly potatoes.
I then read that they sell these frozen, so the next time I was in IKEA I found them in the frozen section and looked up the ingredients. They also have cheese and don't look especially healthy. Not a big surprise.
Trader Joe's
Later, I happened to notice the Cauliflower and Broccoli Vegetable Patties at Trader Joe's and decided to try them out. This seems healthier because potatoes come third after cauliflower and broccoli and there's no cheese, yet it still tastes pretty good. It tastes a little bit like broccoli, but it could definitely be used in place of hash browns.
The nutrition information shown is not particularly exciting. There's a lot of Vitamin C, which I can easily get in yummy ways. But modern nutrition labels show hardly anything. (When I was a kid, it seemed like companies would add extra information if there was extra good news to report.) But surely cauliflower and broccoli have plenty of good nutrients that aren't shown.
Home-Made
Robin then developed his own recipe. His patties have no salt at all, but that's easy to add. But they also taste strongly of broccoli. So he'll be cooking those for himself, but I don't want to eat them.
Conclusion
I have added the Trader Joe's version to my diet. Victory! They do take about ten minutes to cook because you're supposed to saute them for five minutes on each side, so it's not super quick. But I can start them first before I start whatever else I'm eating.
Blog Entry of the Day - Empirical Question's BBC Sherlock Revisted - A fun and informative description of why the author does not love the new Sherlock the way so many people do. One reason, for example: "Sherlock's approach to crime-solving is still presented as cutting-edge, when it's not
"The original Sherlock Holmes (SH) was operating far outside the bounds of police work in his era. In those days, the cops were big guys who would round up the usual suspects after a crime and "interrogate" them until someone confessed. The use of forensic evidence was basically non-existent. (Indeed, modern forensic scientists credit/revere SH as their patron saint.) Using careful observation and logic to solve a crime was just not how things were done at all. It's very hard for us to appreciate how revolutionary SH was for his time. At least watching/reading SH set in Conan Doyle's period, we can see how different SH's approach was from that of his contemporaries in the police force."
I can also highly recommend following the link to her previous comments if you are a fan of Sherlock Holmes.
IKEA's
Recently, I got to taste a side dish at the IKEA cafe called Grönsakskaka or Vegetable Medallions. I liked them and wondered what was in them. The web page shows that it's mostly potatoes.
I then read that they sell these frozen, so the next time I was in IKEA I found them in the frozen section and looked up the ingredients. They also have cheese and don't look especially healthy. Not a big surprise.
Trader Joe's
Later, I happened to notice the Cauliflower and Broccoli Vegetable Patties at Trader Joe's and decided to try them out. This seems healthier because potatoes come third after cauliflower and broccoli and there's no cheese, yet it still tastes pretty good. It tastes a little bit like broccoli, but it could definitely be used in place of hash browns.
The nutrition information shown is not particularly exciting. There's a lot of Vitamin C, which I can easily get in yummy ways. But modern nutrition labels show hardly anything. (When I was a kid, it seemed like companies would add extra information if there was extra good news to report.) But surely cauliflower and broccoli have plenty of good nutrients that aren't shown.
Home-Made
Robin then developed his own recipe. His patties have no salt at all, but that's easy to add. But they also taste strongly of broccoli. So he'll be cooking those for himself, but I don't want to eat them.
Conclusion
I have added the Trader Joe's version to my diet. Victory! They do take about ten minutes to cook because you're supposed to saute them for five minutes on each side, so it's not super quick. But I can start them first before I start whatever else I'm eating.
Blog Entry of the Day - Empirical Question's BBC Sherlock Revisted - A fun and informative description of why the author does not love the new Sherlock the way so many people do. One reason, for example: "Sherlock's approach to crime-solving is still presented as cutting-edge, when it's not
"The original Sherlock Holmes (SH) was operating far outside the bounds of police work in his era. In those days, the cops were big guys who would round up the usual suspects after a crime and "interrogate" them until someone confessed. The use of forensic evidence was basically non-existent. (Indeed, modern forensic scientists credit/revere SH as their patron saint.) Using careful observation and logic to solve a crime was just not how things were done at all. It's very hard for us to appreciate how revolutionary SH was for his time. At least watching/reading SH set in Conan Doyle's period, we can see how different SH's approach was from that of his contemporaries in the police force."
I can also highly recommend following the link to her previous comments if you are a fan of Sherlock Holmes.