try 10 new vegetables

I was getting really bored with eating just tomatoes and red sauce for everything. So I decided I would try some new green veggie. Down at the Downtown Tacoma Farmer’s Market I walked up to one of the booths that had all these edible plants and I asked what would go good with my recently bought salmon. The lady enthused “Arugula!” and let me try some. It was pretty dry and had an almost bitter taste to it. It was only $2 so I bought some and I’ve had them with tomatoes and the salmon. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t super tasty.

I enjoy how random my life is. A couple weeks ago, our local TV station KOMO emailed me out of nowhere and asked me if I wanted to be on a TV show to talk about (guess what site?) 43things.com. I agreed to do it for shits and giggles. At the show, I happened to meet some of the robots, namely Josh and Buster. They’re pretty cool and explained to me that KOMO was looking for someone exactly like me, so they released my email to them (as if KOMO couldn’t find my email anywhere else online (ha!)).

During our segment on the show I talked for maybe 2 minutes at most and at the end the TV hosts said that they were going to help me out in accomplishing one of my goals and gave me a bowl of all these odd plants. I had no idea what any of them were so they explained to me that it was some brussel sprouts, a rutabaga, and some beet leaves. Weird, but funny!

Anyways, I was pretty much obligated to eat these veggies and all, so I took them to my cook at my fraternity and she cooked all of them up last night. They were all great for being vegetables and tasted way better than broccoli with cheese. The brussel sprouts were the most like broccoli, the rutabaga was kind of like a potato and the beet leaves, my favorite out of the three, tasted almost like spinach.

It appears that I’m starting a veggie revolution. I believe that I was the first to post this goal on 43t, and then after Todd Schoonover added the goal EVERYBODY wanted to do this! But not only w/ 43t, also at my fraternity, my cook got all excited about having a little more variety in the veggie section and might start cooking up a wider selection of veggies. Two of my fraternity brothers were also excited about the new veggies too.

As for the TV show, apparently it was supposed to air this Wednesday, but a friend of mine who actually watches TV said the segment wasn’t on there. Can you confirm this, Buster or Josh? PS, 43people won’t let me say I’ve met you guys.