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.
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 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.
Biologically, tomatoes are fruit. Culinarily, tomatoes are vegetables.
I dunno, even in a culinary sense, tomatoes are way too acidic to lump in with vegetables imo. The textures are totally different from veggies too
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.
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
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 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.