Most underrated food?

A giant sweet potato with a little real butter and cinnamon. A meal in itself and highly nutritious.

Cacio e pepe, properly made. Nothing more than pasta with butter, Pecorino, and black pepper. (And maybe a drizzle of olive oil.) Simple. But when done right, it's amazing.

Scallops

Brussel Sprouts are extremely underappreciated

Swiss chard

nittanyboiler wrote:

A giant sweet potato with a little real butter and cinnamon. A meal in itself and highly nutritious.

Apart from the butter you mean.

causetheyaintus wrote:

Recently I've been ordering chicken pot pies when out. I only had one to complain about, and thats because the sauce was a little watery, and even that one was still pretty good. Personally, I think the chicken pot pie as a meal is very underrated. Any agree or have their own dish to nominate?

No joke I work at a HyVee Kitchen (that's a grocery store to you non-Minnesota/Iowa people) and people flip when we run out of Chicken pot pies. I personally am not a fan at all. They're a pain to make as well.

Spam

Americans generally avoid bitter food, to their detriment.

Strong olives, grapefruit, arugula....

These foods are medicinal and work well in small doses over a lifetime. A friend of mine who is an expert in eastern medicine told me that many people today choose sweet food that is easy to masticate, like adult baby food but that eating bitter food during an entire lifetime prevents taking bitter pills at the end of a lifetime.

I don't know whether this. Is credible or not but it sure sounded good.

I could live on the ingredients of a Turkey Club Sandwich if we varied the greens and bread a bit

drunk runner. wrote:

Spam

Ha there's hy-vee shills spamming letsrun at night. Better than koreans, right?

To prove I'm not, I will say our food temps below the 140 degrees far too often imo, and it's not an awesome place to work. I just do it part time during the summer.

Nice call. I love both bay and sea scallops- dayboat only.

The Guy Who Says wrote:

Scallops

Lamb should get more recognition as a protein source

Karma Police wrote:

nittanyboiler wrote:

A giant sweet potato with a little real butter and cinnamon. A meal in itself and highly nutritious.

Apart from the butter you mean.

Karma police try reading a nutrition book that's not 20 years old.

Bump

Cucumber

Dates. tons of energy

Polenta - mixes with many things, in place of pasta/rice

Rojos wejo wrote:

Karma Police wrote:

Apart from the butter you mean.

Karma police try reading a nutrition book that's not 20 years old.

This. So much nutrition advice passed out on this board is based in the anti-fat mindset that's patently ridiculous in 2016.

Foodie wrote:

Americans generally avoid bitter food, to their detriment.

Strong olives, grapefruit, arugula....

These foods are medicinal and work well in small doses over a lifetime. A friend of mine who is an expert in eastern medicine told me that many people today choose sweet food that is easy to masticate, like adult baby food but that eating bitter food during an entire lifetime prevents taking bitter pills at the end of a lifetime.

I don't know whether this. Is credible or not but it sure sounded good.

Ever try a shot of Fernet-Branca?

Fresh figs. They are not popular with mega grocers because the season is short. Fig trees produce a ton of figs over about a two week period and then nothing. Figs also do not keep well. But if you live somewhere hot and have space, fig trees grow like weeds and need almost nothing other than sun and rain.

Bycatch a/k/a "trash fish". Thanks to the restaurant and big grocer industry, everyone is hooked on non-fishy fish like tilapia. That means that a ton of fish that used to be marketable is now considered trash by fisherman. But when fresh caught, it is really delicious and better than a frozen slab of tilapia or salmon. Mackerel, porgy, mullet and even stingray are delicious and bountiful.