On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:09:19 -0500, "Dora" > wrote:

>Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> What's "a lot"? Virtually every evening we have salad. Lettuce
>> (romaine for me, iceberg for him), cucumber, radish, carrot,
>> cherry tomatoes. Sometimes a little bell pepper. (And less
>> perishable items, like feta cheese, olives, pepperoni, provolone,
>> in different combinations.)
>>
>> We can rip through all of that produce before it goes bad.
>>
>> OTOH, I've quit buying broccoli unless I know for sure I'm going
>> to use it. I've thrown away more elderly heads of broccoli than
>> I can count. We just don't do cooked vegetables all that
>> often.
>>
>I like to add raw broccoli to salads (also cauliflower).
>
>Dora

I buy broccoli and cauliflower every time I buy salad produce, stems
get pared and added too. I draw no limits on what produce goes into
salads... in season whatever I grow in my garden is fair game.