I don't think vegetable sounds right either. No one crushes up broccoli or carrots to make sauce for pizza and you don't add tomatoes to your roast veggies.
I love playing around with recipes so have indeed made broc and carrot sauces, but this is kind of all about what feels right to say. And I think that there's a lot of cases where it feels wrong to describe tomato as a vegetable. Kind of how I'd feel odd calling lettuce a vegetable.
Okay but if someone offered me a pizza with broccoli or carrot sauce I'd have to politely, but firmly refuse
Your definition of vegetable is "cannot be used as base for pizza sauce"? Oddly specific.
The whole basis for calling it a vegetable is "I don't want to call it a fruit" so let's not get too pedantic here.
Not sure where I said that, I was referring to nachorella's comment up thread. If you want to know my definition, it's pretty much aligned with the science definition. Fruits: the parts of the plant containing seeds (with the exception of pods). Vegetables: the rest of the plant (including pods)
I don't think vegetable sounds right either. No one crushes up broccoli or carrots to make sauce for pizza and you don't add tomatoes to your roast veggies.
People put carrots in pizza sauce, like Rao's: https://www.raos.com/products/pizza-sauce
And roasted tomatoes are great with some peppers and onions.
Peppers are fruit too
Yup, but also a vegetable.
Yeah, thanks nature for not adequately distinguishing between fruits and vegetables by cooking techniques!
Sometimes, you can be such a cunt, nature.
Maybe you don't.
https://www.cinnamonandkale.co.uk/creamy-broccoli-sauce/
https://easybrazilianfood.com/creamy-carrot-sauce-molho-de-cenoura/
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/roasted-tomatoes-recipe-1947520
I love playing around with recipes so have indeed made broc and carrot sauces, but this is kind of all about what feels right to say. And I think that there's a lot of cases where it feels wrong to describe tomato as a vegetable. Kind of how I'd feel odd calling lettuce a vegetable.
Okay but if someone offered me a pizza with broccoli or carrot sauce I'd have to politely, but firmly refuse
Your definition of vegetable is "cannot be used as base for pizza sauce"? Oddly specific.
The whole basis for calling it a vegetable is "I don't want to call it a fruit" so let's not get too pedantic here.
Not sure where I said that, I was referring to nachorella's comment up thread. If you want to know my definition, it's pretty much aligned with the science definition. Fruits: the parts of the plant containing seeds (with the exception of pods). Vegetables: the rest of the plant (including pods)