Made burgers tonight. Grass fed. Simple salting and cook in a cast iron pan. Lettuce Tomatoes Pickles Heinz And..... breaking from traditional approach I put mustard on. Beer mustard, inspired by our recent posts on the subject of mustard.
Growing up, everything was fresh or frozen except for peas, which were canned Le Sueur. Is that an Ohio thing? Asking because my family is a bunch of Hicks—literally, surname Hicks!—from the Buckeye State.
Now, I haven’t had a canned vegetable in at least 25 years.
Several years ago I procured Green Giant's canned "asparagus". That shit was MUSH. I'm not one to send angry letters but I came *this* close to doing so. Their quality was much better way back. Assholes.
Yes to frozen - corn and peas, particularly.
(fine to go with canned French-cut beans for GBC though! Just sayin', Senor F Me)
DK, is your Hicks family related to Bill? .....because that would make a whole lotta sense
It really depends on the veggie and the way you are eating it. I would never prepare frozen corn as a side dish, it is chewy and loses all the corn flavor. Yuck, there is no objective basis for claiming it's better than canned, do yourself a favour and taste test them side by side. Then again, it goes better in soups and casseroles. Green beans, broccoli, carrots, frozen. Peas, canned all the way. Maybe if they froze decent peas I would eat them, but they only seem to freeze large starchy peas, which are good in soups and casseroles, but not fit for a quickly prepared side dish. Let Sueur early young sweet peas are tiny and tender and super sweet, there is no frozen equivalent.
Corn and peas, taste test them folks, let me know what you think. If you conclude that frozen is better, you will be wrong but I'll let it go lol
Peas are where I drew the line, actually. The wife grew up with canned peas and brought them into my life once and I had to set the record straight. I don't know about the specific brand you speak of, but if they are anything along the lines of what I have had, it is dark green nasty mush.
I am going to do a taste test, for real. Will choose "high end" options from both and report back at some time in the not too distant future.
I like your resolve!
I will concede that frozen is better for soups and casseroles and similar dishes, that's off the table. But as an unadorned side dish... Let there be war.
Corn and peas are fine frozen, and are the only veggies (well, is corn a veggie? It's a grain, right?) that can be frozen. I would never eat any other frozen veg unless I was starving to death. I also think that canned veggies are vomit-worthy. I wouldn't eat any canned veggies unless I was living in a post-apocalyptic world where all the soil is dead and can't grow things anymore. Why would anyone use canned or frozen green beans anyway, when they are readily available fresh all year round? I at least understand canning or freezing peas and corn because of the "format" - most aren't husking their own peas and stripping corn cobs - but why can beans? It's like canning broccoli.
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(Tequila and beer tonight while I read a book and have the game on in the background)
Neil Gamby introdces a good topic though....
Vegetables. If not fresh.....
Frozen
Or
Canned
How do you roll?
I'm a Frozen guy, all the way.
Now, I haven’t had a canned vegetable in at least 25 years.
Yes to frozen - corn and peas, particularly.
(fine to go with canned French-cut beans for GBC though! Just sayin', Senor F Me)
DK, is your Hicks family related to Bill? .....because that would make a whole lotta sense
It really depends on the veggie and the way you are eating it.
I would never prepare frozen corn as a side dish, it is chewy and loses all the corn flavor. Yuck, there is no objective basis for claiming it's better than canned, do yourself a favour and taste test them side by side. Then again, it goes better in soups and casseroles.
Green beans, broccoli, carrots, frozen.
Peas, canned all the way.
Maybe if they froze decent peas I would eat them, but they only seem to freeze large starchy peas, which are good in soups and casseroles, but not fit for a quickly prepared side dish. Let Sueur early young sweet peas are tiny and tender and super sweet, there is no frozen equivalent.
Frozen all the way.
If you conclude that frozen is better, you will be wrong but I'll let it go lol
What other kinds of beans do you eat out of turn? Do you wait until your bush beans are fat and starchy too, or do you eat them at peak ripeness?
I will concede that frozen is better for soups and casseroles and similar dishes, that's off the table. But as an unadorned side dish... Let there be war.
Why would anyone use canned or frozen green beans anyway, when they are readily available fresh all year round? I at least understand canning or freezing peas and corn because of the "format" - most aren't husking their own peas and stripping corn cobs - but why can beans? It's like canning broccoli.