• jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    I dated a British girl in high school. She microwave broccoli in water. No salt or seasoning. No butter. No nothing.

    She took it out, drained the water and told me her dish was done.

    That was the last time she made anything for us.

    • OmegaMouse@pawb.social
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      5 hours ago

      That doesn’t sound all that bad? Not everything needs to be salted. Broccoli in and of itself has a nice flavour, imo

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      1 day ago

      I feel like I’m missing something, was her task not to cook the broccoli? What is meant by “dish”? It is just broccoli? Am I Bri’ish?

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      1 day ago

      Sounds like me, except I would drink the broccoli water.

      Once you reset your palette, cutting out excess salt and sugar and cheap fats, and processed foods, you learn to enjoy the taste of whole foods all on their own. Salted ourselves to taste, which is far less than processed food will add.

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          8 hours ago

          Microwave is brilliant for cooking broccoli. I want it fast, fresh and moist. You kill the flavour and the nutritional value by overcooking it in an oven.

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        23 hours ago

        …there’s gotta be a healthy solution somewhere between industrially processed meals and plain microwave-boiled broccoli

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          17 hours ago

          No! If you don’t take an extreme stance on this topic, you might be seen as boring!

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          19 hours ago

          A toaster oven, or regular oven I guess if you’re fancy, some olive oil and a sprinkling of red chili flaked will get you done delicious roast broccoli (400°F/205°C for ~15 minutes)

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            16 hours ago

            Oil makes a huge difference. Or butter. Even fat drippings, like turkey gelatin from cooking one.

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              8 hours ago

              the biggest mistake of vegan food is that it uses too little fat in most cases, i think

              because “health”. meanwhile plant oil is actually healthy