Technique Tip: Broccoli Trimmed Aggressively
[Many thanks to Sven Geier for his artistry , a broccoli fractal.] Today A Veggie Venture enters its eighth month of cooking vegetables in a new way, every single day . It's time to take stock. (Note to Self: Try a vegetable stock soon.) If there's one reason why A Veggie Venture continues, it's this: I keep learning. But one lesson stands out , one that's changed supper forever. It's how to trim broccoli. "Trim broccoli? Who needs that lesson?" (Yes! I hear you thinking!) But thanks to this fast and reliable technique, broccoli tastes better and so it gets cooked more often. (And we all know it's good for us ...) Testament to this is that: In the first 22 weeks, fresh broccoli recipes were featured here exactly 6 times -- that's about once every 26 days In the seven weeks since first using the trimming technique, fresh broccoli has appeared here another 6 times --that's every 8 days! (And there's ones not even here, repeats too go