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Just preparing the veggies for tonight's dinner, and wondered if anybody else ate the leaves on the cauliflower or do they just through them away and eat the curds only
Seems a 'safe' subject to discuss, I hope.
Julia in Derbyshire

i feed them to me bunnie xxxx

I chop them up and cook them with the florets..looks nice and gives added flavour..

Stray, I can understand that.
Stella, I do the dame as you, probably because I can't bear waste.
Julia in Derbyshire

I can't say I've ever really thought about it, so I throw them away :((

Awf now to get the dinner together. Roast Potatoes and Parsnip, Roast Beef, Carrots, Green Beans, and , Cauliflower and Leaves, Yorkshire Pudd. for the OH, and Horseradish for me. First roast we have had for weeks. Hope I can do justice to it.
Good Night All and God Bless
Julia in Derbyshire

I cook the green leaves as well Julia. I cut out the stalky bit and drop the green bits in for the last five minutes, they don't need to be overcooked. The green makes the meal look good.

Enjoy. Bernie

As we had spring greens as one of our veg today l didn't use the leaves on the cauliflower but usually do.

I normally throw them away as i love me Greens for leafage

**reports thread** ;)

I hate cauliflower intensely. lol

Never eaten the cauliflower leaves myself.

Then again the tortoise would leave home if she was deprived of them!

Aileen xxx

My grandad used to boil them up, with the hard bits of the cabbage and other assorted goodies, and make us kids drink the resulting water. He called it "Spring medicine" and said it was good for "clearing out the innards"

I'll take his word for that!

Sue x

SRS, it is so nice to know that I am not the only one. I tried smothering it in cheese one time but it still tasted YUK. But then I never liked my greens either, although I now eat them if they are chopped up in rice and other veges. 'Every man to his own taste, as Paddy said when he kissed the cow'. Poor old Paddy gets blamed for everything.

Huia.

Sue,
You reminded me of when we had cabbage as nippers, Dad used to drain it through the colander and then add pepper to it and we used to drink it cold after Sunday dinner, it was lovely, I can't get it to taste the same now though.

Helen

I cook chopped cauli stalk and the leaves at bottom of pan with minimum water and white curds steaming on top. Serve curds as veg or cauli cheese and blitz the remainder with seasoning into cauli soup which freezes well if not needed the next day, serve with cheese crutons or just grated cheese topping or a swirl of cream. Only compost minimal veg and make soup out of most varieties.

That's a good idea with the leaves Janice, I would'nt have thought of that, though I mke soup and freze it, out of just about anything. I'll remember that one next-time. Waste not, want not.
Julia in Derbyshire

Edit. When we were young children, my mother made a belter of a soup. Soaked a packed of peas overnight. Next day, added loads of chopped veggies to the peas and let it cook. Gorgeous and thick. You only needed a hunk of bread, and a twirl of HP sauce. Made your ribs stick together, as it was a meal in itself, which was just as well, as there was very little money about in those days. Well, not in our house.

If they,re reasonably sized, Blanch them and use to make "Stuffed Vine Leaves with any left over meat Chopped up. Quite tasty. **M**.

I eat the leaves - not necessarily with the florets - and I (and my children and now my grand children) eat the 'stump' (trimmed) raw!!
I've just munched the brocolli stump whilst waiting for my dinner to cook.

I make vegetable soup and I put everything in it. All the normal vegetables like leek, onions, potatoes, carrots plus cabbage stalks, cauliflower leaves and stalks, turnip tops, celery trimmings, pea pods, etc. etc. Its delicious.

Bernie my Boy, In the winter I love to go to the Denby Pottery Visitor Centre nearby. After visiting the Cookery Emporium I make a be-line for the Restaurant for my bowl of vegetable soup. They put everything in it but the kitchen sink,it is bsolutely delicious. Best 'outdoor' soup I have ever eaten.
Talking about celery. It seems the 'in thing' to sell this green these days, with only a few white stems inside to eat. So I chop all the green stems up for soup, and add the leaves. If having salad, I chop the leaves up and mix them with the lettuce. Nothing is wasted on celery by me. I can make soup out of anything, and made a spiced carrot soup the other day, with two containers going in the freezer for winter.
Julia in Derbyshire