"W. Baker" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove > wrote:
> : I discovered a new recipe! Well, sort of. I have actually been eating
> this
> : but did not know it. This is an Italian dish. It is basically sticks
> or
> : pieces of raw veggies, cut up and dipped in olive oil as you eat them.
> Some
> : recipes say that you can additionally dip in sea salt as you eat. And
> some
> : say that you can dip in mustard. The big difference here is that they
> use
> : raw veggies that I don't normally eat, in addition to those that I do.
> Like
> : artichokes and fennel. But some recipes call for lightly blanched
> veggies
> : like green beans or lightly grilled ones like eggplant.
>
> : I have eaten raw carrots in the past with olive oil because I read
> somewhere
> : that the oil helps with the bioavailability of the nutrients in the
> carrots.
> : But now I want to try this with other veggies, particularly the fennel!
> I
> : have only had fennel once. I roasted it. And there just wasn't enough
> : because we all loved it.
>
> : I am just surprised that I never heard of this before! I have always
> eaten
> : raw veggies but usually plain. Once in a while with hummus. I never
> saw
> : the appeal of ranch or other dips. And at one restaurant where we
> haven't
> : been in a while, we get the raw veggies with Italian dressing for
> dipping.
> : That's okay but I like the sound of the plain olive oil.
> So many things are delicious dipped in olive oil,like tose vegetables.
>
> another great dip, I find for raw veggies is cocktail sauce, the kind
> peopleuse on shrimp cocktail, etc. Easy to make. Just mixt ketchup or
> chili sauce(the Heinz kind, not salsa) with white grated horseradish to
> taste adn a little lemon juice and/or tabasco, again to taste and dip
> away. It makes a nice zippy easy appetizer or, as they say in Yiddish
> vorshpeiz(sp?) {zippy first course}

I've never tried it as I don't eat shrimp. I do like salsa with stuff
though.