A Crazy Idea

Last night, as I was laying in bed not sleeping, I had a crazy idea. I asked boyfriend, "Are you sleeping?" He kind of jerked awake and said, "Sorta kinda, yea." Oops... "Well, since you are awake now.... What if I tried every vegetable?" I think he was confused. He said, "What if you did?" and went back to sleep.

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I started thinking, what if I did? I eventually drifted off to sleep, soon to forget all about the many types of vegetables I may or may not ever taste.

But behold, on my Facebook news feed this morning I saw something called "Sea Beans." And I remembered. I've never heard of sea beans before this day. At first I thought that this gal was referring to the drift fruit that has been used in ancient medicine (the "fruit" of my first Google search), but upon a deeper search I did find sea beans, aka samphire, a coastal vegetable from northern Europe that apparently has a naturally occurring salty taste and is sometimes referred to as the "sea pickle" or "sea asparagus."

With this discovery of sea beans coming right behind said crazy idea, it was like the Universe was urging me to accept this challenge issued by my insomnia. I know some of them will be hard to acquire, and some will probably be downright disgusting (not a huge fan of Brussels sprouts, either), but my goal is to.... wait for it.... try every single vegetable.

Challenge ACCEPTED!

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Because it's only an idea without a plan, here's my plan: I'm going to start tonight. I'm going to start local and with some familiar items. I don't have to get exotic yet. Tonight I'll be visiting the local farmer's market to pick up some fresh veggies. Maybe I'll find something new. Maybe not. I know they sell celery root at my local supermarket - I've never tried that before.


But tonight starts my quest. To find, to cook, to eat - Every. Single. Vegetable. Follow me if you'd like to live vicariously through my culinary vegetable adventures!