Brussels sprouts and apricots.

cooked broccoli. it doesn't even have to be smothered in cheese sauce.

hmm, fruit. i'd have to say my favorite is black seedless grapes. they're like eating candy!

We eat a lot of avocados, Roma tomatoes and bananas. When Rocky Ford Cantaloupes are in season, we eat those every day! Palisade peaches are pretty good too. DH eats a cup of wild blueberries every morning.

Cherries, the sweet ones.

Broccoli. I love to grow it as well.

I love avacodos, can’t eat them due to the potassium. Strawberries and blueberries. Asparagus.

I eat a bowl of blueberries and strawberries every day for lunch/brunch and one avocado a day. My favorite fruit is the homegrown ones that we are picking right now. Favorite veggie is fresh-picked corn on the cob or /and tomatoes from my garden (if that's a veggie or a fruit)

Love lemons and avocados and have trees for both. Berries, peaches, melons, cherries and certain apples are other favorites. Also enjoy most veggies, especially artichokes, corn, potatoes, asparagus, spinach and the list goes on. Love good homegrown tomatoes (yes, I know they’re a fruit).

Spinach - in any form - is my favorite veg. Raspberries for the fruit, followed closely by nectarines.

Fruit - hard to pick between fresh peaches, cantaloupe. and fresh home-grown tomatoes

Veggies - asparagus and fresh corn (I really count tomatoes here too)

Stupid answer, but I like them all except eggplant and to a certain extent, papaya. Whatever is at the peak of flavorfulness is what I choose.

Fun2BHere, not stupid.

The more I think about my response, I start to think of other choices. I really like asparagus and oranges as well. Actually, I’m really not sure what my favourite are.

It’s hard to pick two. 🤠

Carrots and mangoes. Cherries are a close runner-up on the fruit list.

Artichokes and the perfect orange

I can't choose a favourite of either fruit or vegetables. I like all of them depending on what's in season, the freshness and quality of the produce and the quality of the cooking, if pertinent. For example, I've eaten divine tangerines in Cyprus and horrible tangerines in other places, fabulous apples in England and vile ones elsewhere, well-cooked Broccoli at home and disgusting broccoli in Italy. And so on.

Hmmm....Fruit...toss up between Black Raspberries or Apples (Red Delicious, Gala

or Honey Crisp). Local grown lots of Apple Orchards around here.

Vegetable.....Fresh Sweet Corn or Acorn Squash (also fresh picked). Local grown

also.

But...as these are all fresh picked there is a short period of time when they

are available. If they are canned...probably choose Sweet Kernel Corn or

Green Beans.

Tough choice, probably tomatoes & peaches....or fresh corn & blueberries....or broccoli & watermelons....or cucumbers & cantaloupes.....all homegrown & vine ripened of course ;-)

Peaches and cabbage.

Avocados, I eat one every morning (M-F) for breakfast via a simple avocado toast. And, of course, making guacamole, etc. Favorite veggie? Corn and tomatoes.

Veggie: Asparagus, broccoli, sweet corn, green beans.

fruit: a perfectly ripe juicy plum

For those who enjoy broccoli (I'm in that group)

What do you think of broccolini? When I see it at the store and it's fresh (not wilting), I'll buy it instead of broccoli. It seems sweeter and never has the bitter flavor that broccoli sometimes has. It's thinner than broccoli and we sometimes roast it in the oven (instead of steaming it) and it's done quickly. The stems and flower end get pleasantly crispy.

Do you buy it?

Especially for vegetables, I can’t really answer because the preparation matters. For example, I love spinach as souffle, creamed, steamed, or in lasagna, but not raw as in a salad.

Conversely, for fruit, I love bananas (though not sure they are my favorite), but only by themselves or sliced on Cheerios or peanut butter on toast, never as an ingredient like banana pudding or cooked dishes. Well, maybe banana bread (no chocolate chips) and smoothies.

What do you think of broccolini?

I don't recall ever buying it but I grow several broccolini plants in my garden every year along with regular broccoli. It starts producing a few weeks earlier which is nice. I'm harvesting mine now and eating some every couple days alternating it with purple asparagus from the garden. It keeps producing until late June/early July here unless it gets too hot causing it to bolt.

Regular broccoli will send out side shoots after the main head is harvested which are similar to broccolini but not quite the same flavor.

I either cook it on the grill in a grill pan or steam it in the micowave. You're right that it doesn't take long any way you cook it. I'll sometimes just eat it raw in a salad.

Favorite fruit = big red seedless grapes & must be very chilled

Favorite vegetable = any yellow squash & must be roasted

Watermelon which I can no longer eat since I developed a serious intolerance to it. Dang.

We have a bowl of mixed cut fruit most days, what ever looks good. I like my bananas underripe and it is a good way to use those crunchy strawberries. Avocados are another favorite.

DH wants his strawberries and whipped cream on biscuits. Strange. I make biscuits for him just for that. Me, I use a 1-2-3-4 cake.

patriciae

I just remembered that I also love pineapple but it must be grilled. It’s a very close second to those cold, juicy, seedless red grapes.

I do love most fruits & vegetables but the question asked was favorite of each. We can only have one favorite, thus my original short reply.

I love most all fruits and vegetables. Asparagus, maybe? Tomatoes? (Those are fruits..). Stone fruit, in season. Watermelon. Mangos when I’m on Kauai. All produce, in season only!

My list is a very long one, skewed to the vegetable side. I live in New England and we have apples and berries.

My favorite fruit is cherimoya, and I had a cherimoya tree in L.A., as well as a white sapote, which I also liked.

Hard to pick favorite vegetable, since I love most of them, but I guess I would have to say that spinach tops the list, partly because it is so versatile, and it finds its way into a lot of different dishes, from salads, to omelets, dips, spanakopita, stuffed mushrooms, lasagna, etc.

I love just about all fruits and vegetables. Just drop me off at a farmers’ market or even the produce aisle ;)

I am partial to raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, mangos, good oranges and grapefruit. Broccoli, butternut squash, potatoes, articholes, avocados, mushrooms, fresh sugarsnap peas, green beans, legumes, spinach …. I cannot stop.

Blackberries! And the flavor of black raspberries is heavenly. They grow wild here but are very seedy and the birds gobble them up. However, I think red raspberries are one of the more elegant fruits.

I always thought that raspberries tasted of roses, and the converse. I never found anyone to understand what I was tasting. Now, after gardening a bit, I think I know why I saw the odor and flavor resemblance.

Strawberry shortcake and carrot cake....

ok, seriously, cherries and sweet potatoes

I love apples and especially like to try all the different kinds at the farmer's market. Each variety smells and tastes so different. Vegetable? Broccoli Rabe. I may be the only one on the planet. Just plain steamed. Close second is Romanesco. I didn't pick it for first, because the season is about two weeks, and it is almost impossible to get.

Lars, thanks for that about spinach. Perhaps I will give it my top billing then, since as you say, I can add it to almost anything. Even as ONE of the greens in a salad.

Fruit: Autumn Crisp grapes, and Missouri Bootheel-grown watermelons

Vegetable: Broccoli and green beans

I have trouble picking a favorite fruit. Can I just say summer fruit or stone fruit?

Maybe I would rate them-

watermelon, cherries (Rainer =bonus points), cantaloupe, plums

Veggie would be sweet potato or carrots. I love carrots raw and cooked.

Elmer I LOVE brocollini. But yeah, I can hardly ever find it in good condition in the grocery store. Always wilted. I am thinking about trying t grow some in the fall.

Local strawberries and rainier cherries. Fresh corn on the cob or squash top my list

I love broccolini. Like amylou I often have a hard rime finding it fresh enough to suit. I really love it steamed or in a stir fry.

And I agree with Lars about the versatility of spinach. It just isn’t in my top 3 favorites mainly because of the mouth feel when eaten raw.

I do buy nice brocollini at Trader Joe's when they have it. Few of the other stores I frequent seem to offer it with any regularity..

I don't know that I could chose just a couple - I like almost all vegetables and most fruits. That is not to say I enjoy preparing all of them....i.e. I find eggplant tedious to deal with.

I don't especially enjoy peas that have been canned, or green beans that have been frozen.

On a whim I picked up one of the three pound boxes of Rockit apples about a year ago. I like apples but had never eaten them daily. DH loved them - they are small and he will put a couple on the table every night. We're having fresh raspberries with our dinner tonight but he will still wash, core and slice a couple of the small Rockits. If he's willing to prepare them I'm willing to eat them😊

I think broccolini may be following the same path as arugula did not that many years ago. It's a new-ish on the scene item gaining in popularity. If so, in time there will be even more production, more priority handling and shipping, and broader availability.

It seems to be pretty regularly available and fresh where I am but the Bay Area is just an hour or two from the Monterey Bay and Salinas Valley areas, known for growing green vegetables. Including, primarily in that same coastal area but with a range also a bit north and south from there too, the only region in the US where artichokes are grown. Greens love moderate (cool) and sunny weather and that's what this part of the coast offers for much of the year.

The fractal-like appearance of romanesco is very cool. The season is considerably longer where I am than you mention. I seem to see it much of the year. Again, it could be a location thing.

Figs, especially the green ones. But I also like brown figs and even dried figs. Favorite vegetable is artichoke, especially if it's stuffed and someone else is preparing it.

It would be hard to pick just one fruit. I try to buy in season. This week I bought peaches from South Carolina that were great!

For vegetables I eat kale several nights per week. I also like to snack on grape tomatoes, especially yellow or orange ones. I leave them on the counter and eat them like candy.