Funny story! I would love to sample your dish but then I love broccoli. I think it was 43 who said something about 41 hating broccoli and unfortunately passing along that gene to the rest of them.

That bacon-broccoli-steak dish looks really good to me. I like broccoli, and eat it often. Cream of broccoli soup is one of my very favorites, and it's my go-to whenever I have dental work which requires me to eat soft foods for the remainder of the day.

I've never met anyone who didn't like stir fried broccoli with oyster sauce! I think those who don't care for broccoli have just not had it prepared for them properly - dcarch7's recipe or the stir fry presentation could change that :-)

It looks absolutely delicious...and I do love broccoli!

well gardengal48 -nice to meet you :) I can't stand oyster sauce and broccoli is only good with cheese or maybe now ( as the picture shows), some bacon. LOL. That does look good.

Actually... unless I can find the frozen spinach (if I still have some) I am making broccoli, onion and bacon quiche for a gathering tomorrow. Need to make it tonight due to logistics.

ubro, I LOVE oyster sauce.

No problem artemis, I don't like anything that, to me tastes fishy,>LOL. I used to go fishing lots as a child and the fishy taste always reminds me of how jack fish slime smelled. I know, I know, it's weird but there it is.

I can’t get too close to peach cobbler or I gag. To me, it smells like stinky feet.

Oyster sauce doesn't taste at all fishy......except for the name one would be hard pressed to associate it with fish at all. It is both sweet and salty and with a bit of a tang. But NOT fishy!!

Ahh but peaches don't smell like stinky feet. To me, it is fishy.

ETA that is why I also don't like boughten Ceasar salad dressing, I can taste the anchovies a mile away. My brain, I admit, must be wired funny.

Beautiful photos and tribute to Bush. You wanna get someone to eat broccoli (maybe)? Broccoli cheddar chowder or Broccoli, butternut squash & cheddar soup.

Put enough cheese in there and you might convince them ;-)

I love oyster sauce, too. Just recently used some oyster sauce as a condiment with Pho.

Very few purchased bottled Caesar salad dressings contain any anchovies.

Sorry, not the norm up here, most Ceasar dressings do have them. I read the labels because I have a relative that has a fish allergy. I make my own, I just like to make it, and it is quick and easy.

ETA the dish does look wonderful.

If you want to bump up the flavor of broccoli cheddar soup even more, add some roasted red pepper.

The mental image of a grown man shrieking over a small piece of broccoli is very weird, dcarch. :-)

Outside playing, I seem to recall 41 mentioning his dislike of broccoli and then the Broccoli Growers Association (or whatever it was) turned up and dumped a ton of broccoli on the White House lawn. Or some such similar protest.

I make a cream of broccoli soup that goes to the next level with the addition of a little pesto.

As a child/teen you couldn’t pay me to eat broccoli but now it’s my favourite, steamed and plain, with sauce, with other vegetables, as soup, you name it.

I like broccoli, I've always liked it, but I don't care much for it raw, I only like it cooked, go figure. But, as I'm strange and there's always a caveat, I do eat that broccoli/cauliflower salad with the bacon and raisins. (shrug)

Dcarch, that looks delicious, and I'd eat all of those things and be happy.

I can't think of a better way to honor a man than with fond thoughts, so I think it's perfect. And, like you, I think it's appropriate to honor his contributions to our nation, so Rest in Peace indeed, President Bush.

Annie

mmmmm .... powdered broccoli

That looks delicious. I like Broccoli as long as it is not cooked to mush. I do not know why people cook it that long. One of my favorite meals is Salmon, broccoli and baked potato. When we are at a party and there is a Veggi platter with raw broccoli I am usually the only one eating the broccoli.

I eat it but am not overly fond of broccoli myself so I can sympathize with the Bush men on this one.

Love broccoli. My husband is a picky eater so I threatened him to never show my son when he was growing up his numerous food dislikes so as to not pass on this traits by example. I am of the school kids need to taste (but not forced to eat a whole serving) everything at least 3+ times before they will develop a taste for something and offered a very wide variety very young. Broccoli, I told my son, are little trees, isn't fun to eat little trees. He liked most things at a early age, ruttabga, cooked spinach and yes, broccoli!

His only dislikes, any sort of melon and coconut. Not for my lack of him trying it.

Your dishes look appetizing and yummy. I remember when President Bush announced that he did not like broccoli. He made the statement so funny as he was a man with a sense of humor. Our family all love broccoli and none of us are divided in that area.

Loved your post and pix, dcarch. Yes, Rest In Peace, Mr. President.

Izzy Mn, you are a great parent. To many want to be their kids friend instead of being a parent. If the kids say they do not want to eat or do something they let their children dictate. It is about their health especially when it is veggies.

I don't know how anyone can hate broccoli-cheddar chowder, but I bet Bush would have!

I buy the huge, family-size, ready-to-go bags, I eat that much.

LOL I love Broccoli....as long as it is never on my plate, nor close enough to smell. And, sorry Carro...but that would have to include your recipe. Hi..

nice to meet you. Now you do. See....I "don't know how anyone can "like"

it...of course, I haven't a clue if any Bush would like it or not. They forgot to

tell me, I think.

Funny story, glad it popped back up again cause I didn't see it last year.

I could eat broccoli every day and often do. Husband, on the other hand, pretty much hates it, regardless of how it is prepared. I told him I might smuggle some into his smoothies to get him to eat it, that didn't go over too well. :)

Love broccoli with cheese sauce.

Gov george stayed in the Temple Inland

guest house and slept in the bed dh had slept in. This is in Silsbee , Tx. Saw gov george jogging down main st in Silsbee

while he was in Silsbee. Funny he was jogging alone. President Clinton had lots of company when he jogged.

just a funny story.

I find that our homegrown broccoli has a sweeter flavor than store bought which usually has a noticeable bitter taste.

Cream of broccoli soup, yummy!!! I love it! I want some now!

I saw some science program a few years back that stated there is some chemical in broccoli that some proportion of people can taste, and other people cannot taste at all. In the show the scientists had created a solution containing only that particular chemical (at some concentration) as a clear liquid. Then after having asked each of the participants whether they liked or didn't like broccoli, they would squirt an eyedropper full of the chemical solution in the participant's mouth. Some wouldn't react at all, and said it tasted like pure water, the others reacting with an immediate reaction as if the most vile thing in the world was in their mouth, some of them spat it out on the floor right in front of the scientists. The correlation between not being able to taste the chemical and liking broccoli wasn't quite 100% (surprisingly) but it was awfully close.

Rather like cilantro I suppose!

Hmm... I missed this conversation the first time around. I've heard that kids are more likely to like broccoli if their mothers eat it . Babies that are breastfeed and have it first introduced through mother's milk tend to eat it. . My family likes broccoli,cilantro and brussel sprouts, cabbage, etc. I introduced those foods when my kids were little.

I like to think of myself as a person who is not a picky eater. I'm finding as I am introduced to more foods, there are a lot more foods I don't like. ;p Maybe 41st just didn't get introduced to broccoli early enough.