Leuty Parker

Tag: #vegetables

  • 12/4 – Beetroot

    Continuing the “Leuty’s facts about fruit & vegetables” posts. The book I’m reading now has a main symbol through it, being the beet. It opens with saying “the beet is the most intense of vegetables”

    It has a continuous symbol of the beet. I may have already mentioned this book, its called “Jitterbug Perfume”.

    The book says, “You can’t squeeze blood out a turnip”

    I have to say I wasn’t so passionate about beets before I read this.

    The beet, it’s self, has plenty of vitamins. Such as they are a great source of fiber, folate(vitamin B9), manganese, potassium, iron, and vitamin C.

    One of the things I really like now is a beetroot & pineapple salad. It’s truly delicious. It has that mixture of sweet & savoury which is very popular right now, growing in popularity with salted caramel.

  • Peppers

    The green pepper is highly inferior.

    I heard the green pepper ripens into a red or yellow if you leave them in sunlight, so you have half a bearable pepper.

    You get a lot of packages of red, yellow & green peppers. No one likes the green ones though. I have never met someone who’s favourite colour of pepper is green. I say this because I made sushi & the only vegetable in my fridge was a green pepper. So I masked it tasted with fish, rice & noti.

    This is me trying to carry on the “fruits & vegetables” theme.

  • Artichoke

    Maybe I should do a blog post titled “Leuty’s facts about fruit & vegetables” because I did one quite recently about the pineapple & now I’m about to do 1 about artichokes. It is related to the sunflower & is the only vulnerable to be entirely native to North America.

    The Jerusalem artichokes are sometimes called the “sunroot”. Jerusalem artichokes have edible leaves & tubers. The Jerusalem artichoke derived from the Italian word for “sunflower”. Jerusalem artichokes are part of the daisy family. & they’re rich in iron, providing energy.

    They also have lots of potassium & vitamin B1.

    They are quite sweet, but their fibre stops any spikes in blood sugar levels (good for diabetics)

    They have quite a low glycemic index (GI) score than potatoes.