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Steamed spinach (3)

Jan 18, 2011

I've been eating a lot of spinach lately, and I'm a newly-converted fan. It's good raw in salads, and it's even good fried in omelets. One way it's not good is the way I ate it my entire life, leading to my intense hatred of it: Steamed or boiled. I had an excellent meal at a restaurant the other day, consisting of red snapper on a bed of steamed spinach. Everything was going great, until I got to that slimy, bitter mess of green nonsense underneath the fish. I don't understand how a simple cooking technique can transform a food in such a horrific way. #food

Comments

#1	D	Jan 21, 2011
	steve thought he hated asparagus most of his life for the same reason.

#2	Dave	Jan 21, 2011
	I actually like steamed asparagus and Brussels sprouts, which I realize makes me weird. A great way to cook a lot of vegetables is baking or grilling them with salt. That way it feels like you're eating fire-cooked meat, when really you're eating a worthless plant.

#3	D	Jan 25, 2011
	steamed asparagus is not the same as boiled beyond recognition asparagus. The brussel sprouts thing is just weird though.