Vegetables.

Texts / Thoughts.
 
Along with the pseudo grains, this is our hero!
So it must be treated like one.
  
Not all cauliflowers have the same taste — because there exist several sorts. Broccoli tastes exceptionally ugly with bugs inbetween the florets or overcooked — so take your time to clean and separate them well. Sometimes savoy cabbage tastes disgusting, buy it at another market stall and it becomes your alltime favorite. Beetroot might taste too heavy and earthy, cook and pair it well. Have you known about the uncountable sorts of carrots? They taste from sweet to bitter to bland. Paprika tastes best, when it was sun-drenched in the rays of summer. Have an inner challenge to stick to seasonally available vegetables during winter. Will you succeed?

Enjoy the sight of the beautiful colored tomatoes, and think about an adequate alternative for yourself. Don't get sad about all the mouthwatering items which you can't eat. Look for the best of the allowed ones.

Flabby leaves do not make appetite. When the paprika grew crooked we dont care. If she gets moldy we do. If there is organic, buy when it’s in the budget. If not, look for a fair, local producer with knowledge and passion. 

Have a relationship with your vegetables. Make a happening out of buying them, get to know them. Take extratime to visit a local market, or grow them in your own garden. Plant a vegetable in a pot on your balcony, to observe and care for it. See if it gets eaten by ants or snails and what you would do against it — or if you are the lucky one who celebrates a harvest at the end, when all hails passed. Take the seeds to grow them anew when winter ends.

Look for a easy way to get rid of the waste. Maybe there’s a garden nearby, where they are happy about peels and stalks for a compost. Or there might be a municipal green waste collection where you can drop it. Just don't grow small flys in the kitchen, they annoy ;-)