Sweet potato greens...

[crafty_packrat]

Following ellen_fremedon's advice, I pan-steamed some sweet potato greens I bought at market. I'm not sure if I did a good job with them, though. They certainly didn't taste much like sweet potatoes to me -- which is what the seller said would happen after they were cooked. They tasted likes steamed greens -- kind of vegative, not sweet, though not noticeably bitter either.

I am trying to eat dark leafy greens more often, but I don't actually enjoy the taste of most of them -- it's the vegatable equivalent of eating saltines, as far as I can tell -- you eat it to carry something that tastes better, like cheese or sauce. Spinach and chard are good in soups, but that's about it... :sigh:

Maybe I should buy a set of test strips and figure out if I'm a super-taster or not; it'd be nice to know if it's just my quirky body, or what...

Comments

greens, taste

[texasgrandma]

Eat the ones you like and don't worry about the others. What about things like bok choy? Or broccoli or cauliflower? Are you still adverse to cabbage? It can be stir-fired or baked and not taste the same way it does raw or cooked to death. But then I like cabbage.

[laughingrat]

Interesting. I would've thought that sweet-potato greens would be poisonous!

Maybe it's a food-culture thing. Like, I grew up eating greens, so I think they're fabulous. They're not, in themselves, strongly flavored, but I do love the flavor that's there.

[crafty_packrat]

Well, they were selling them at the farmer's market as sweet potato greens, and told me how to cook them -- so I don't think they're poisonous, but maybe they're just something that is supposed to TASTE like sweet potatoes?

Re: greens, taste

[crafty_packrat]

I never liked cabbage. I can't remember eating it as a kid -- except maybe with kielbasa and onions?

Anyway, the only times I've tried cooking cabbage, I've managed to turn it sulfurous, which is inedible as far as I'm concerned.

Broccoli is okay if it's cooked lightly with oil -- which means I eat it at restaurants, and not at home. I can't manage to make it right, so it's not worth buy. Kind of like green beans...