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Veteran Posts: 168   | In this season of culinary excess I am fantasizing about creating a vegetable platter based on the color spectrum. Any ideas, anyone? I've figured out some of the easy ones ie. carrots and tomatoes , beets, eggplant but what about blue vegetables? -- not fruits, that's too easy, but I may have to turn to edible flowers such as pansies for blue. I thought Cyndi, our resident gastronome, might know. Bon appetit  | ||
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Expert Yogi Posts: 5098  Location: Somewhere in the Mountains of Western NC | I've had orange and purple cauliflower. Love those purple potatoes with them too. Sorry, purple is the closest I can get to blue.....although, I think blue pansies are very nice...and edible. The deer around here love them. I feel like I have to say this....there are some colors that are just meant to be fruit and flowers, it's hard to come up with a blue veggie...I don't think such an animal exists. Oh well....You can always garnish a colorful veggie dish laced with some fresh blueberries, Jim, I've never seen a blue potato. Where do we find these in the states?? | ||
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Veteran Posts: 168 | Thanks, Cyndi and Jim. Blue is difficult--to paraphrase Kermit the frog "It's not easy being blue" --if you are a vegetable  Somewhere in the back of my mind I remember blue corn, something about blue corn meal. I have seen Indian corn of multiple colors and maybe even entirely blue back in the states in Michigan many years ago but not here in France. Blue potatoes, I'm not sure, are they from the Andes? We have purple potatoes here but they are not truly "blue". I'll keep working on it. I'm getting pretty close with all the "new" old fashioned root vegetables available here. "Forgotten vegetables " they are called and they are the new "black" for les grand chefs. Speaking of black , maybe I should take a closer look at the skin of the black radish. I'm not sure if it is really deep brown, green, purple or blue.  Anyway all this would make a great winter soup | ||
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Veteran Posts: 168 | Hi, Jim, Your suggestions got me thinking. Lavender, thyme and rosemary all have blue flowers ranging in hue. Of course they are herbs, not vegetables but could be sprinkled over the veggies. African "blue" basil, as I know it is too purple for the blueberry blue I'm looking for as are the purple asparagus. But the range and subtlety of the blue range is magnificent. It would make a beautiful display. All of this is the art historian in me speaking not to mention the gourmand. Your cauliflower recipe sounds delicious. I'm going to try it, unfortunately without the blueberries right now. They would provide a wonderful sweet sour accent in addition the the color. Thanks again | ||
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Veteran Posts: 168 | Hi, Cyndi, You are right about the lavender. It can knock your socks off unless used descretion. Yet some insist it is an essential herb in the Herbes de Provence blend. Of course, others do not agree, everybody has their own recipes. Tourists seem to like the lavender mix, seems "more authentic"  . I still love the scent even if I do not use it in cooking very often. The search is proving very interesting and that's the point I guess. Have a Happy New Year--All | ||
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Veteran Posts: 168 | Maybe w could have lavander icecream for dessert, Tourist | ||
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Veteran Posts: 168 | You're right, Jim. Everytime I make saurbraten ( I haven't in years since i do not eat red meat) but when I do, I make a 'purple' cabbage/apple side dish. To make it I add vinegar and it turns a luscious shade of deep red purple. I saw the most gorgeous blue/purple cabbage at my green grocer's the other day. Was it too akaline or was it a trick of those special vegetable market spot lights or was it just a wonderful shade of purple? I have not given up on your book. I'm just waiting for my guilt feelings to overcome my writer's block  | ||
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