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iambrianmilotte

Welcome to the boards! Heh, I love your creative title to this. I emailed your post to the kitchen's to get their take. Lori wrote the below and I hope it helps or inspires! -Cate

At Betty Crocker, we have a wealth of vegetables recipes for almost any veggie! You can narrow search results for low-sodium and low-calorie as well. But in general, you can usually reduce that fat and salt in vegetable side dish recipes to suit personal preference. And if sodium is of particular concern, salt can be added at the table if desired instead of using it in a recipe. Or, reduced-sodium salt substitutes can be used, or in recipes calling for soy sauce, the reduced-sodium soy sauces can be substituted.
 
Kale can be substituted in most recipes calling for collard greens. Both have inherent bitterness and that is why most recipes have longer cooking times, this mellows the flavor.
 
Here are some recipes on our website you may enjoy, but there are many, many more!
Lori Fox
 
·        Collard Greens with Black-Eyed Peas http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/southern-black-eyed-pea-soup/b66c3781-3615-49da-99a5-414ebc552a5d

·        Asparagus with Maple-Mustard Sauce

·        Roasted Parmesan Asparagus

·        Asparagus with Tomatoes

·        Roasted Sesame Asparagus

·        Green Beans with Shiitake Mushrooms

·        Sesame Green Beans

·        Sesame Pea Pods

·        Orange-Glazed Snap Peas with Carrot

·        Herbed Broccoli

·        Dilled Carrots and Pea Pods

·        Roasted Vegetables

·        Garden Patch Sauté

·        Zesty Corn Combo

·        Honey-Lemon Brussels Sprouts and Carrots

Hi iambrianmilotte, Welcome to the site, this is a great place to post and read posts. Maybe they just like the 'hot sauce" My oldest son ate "everything" with catsup on it!!!! untill he was a young adult, and he still eats it on a lot of things, but not everything, hahahha.   Granna2

Hello Brian.  It sounds to me as if you have some exceptionally ill-mannered friends.  I was raised to eat what was prepared and NOT ask for anything that was NOT on the table, including the salt and pepper shakers. We were so  grateful to receive a dinner invitation at someone's home, that we made sure we were gracious to our host and/or hostess, sometimes giving a gift to thank them for the evening.  I suggest in the future that you leave the items in the cupboard and tell your guests that they are at Brian's home and not a restaurant.  If they do not appreciate your efforts, then it is not worth inviting them again.  Food today is not appreciated for its simplicity.  Seasonings are well and good.  But dumping salt, hot sauce, ketchup, etc on food is extremely rude.  Sorry, to sound off.  Hugs, ldbayou

ldbayou: You know how you can read a post two ways? I think we just did.

I read that and thought that it was great that his friends could be honest with him. He doesn't seem upset... just in need for some yummy veggie recipes. Please share some of your favorites when you have time!

Sincerely, Cate

Not everybody tastes vegetables the same way. There is a bitter substance in many veggies, PTC, that not all people can taste. The veggies are yummy to a nontaster, but bitter to a taster.

One solution is to cultivate a taste for bitterness. It's not as crazy as it seems. A veggie called bitter-gourd is very popular in Asia, precisely because of the strong bitter taste.

Another solution is to try to eliminate as much bitterness as possible. Changing the cooking water is one way to help do that, and I hope more people come up with other ways.