Just-picked tomatoes and sweet corn from a roadside stand in Ohio...followed by carrots, green beans, and potatoes (must be my Irish heritage).

Lately I have been on a roasted vegetable kick - so easy to do and I love how rich all the flavors become after roasting. Anyway, my faves are:

1. Spinach
2. Asparagus
3. Cauliflower
4. Red pepper (love it roasted with squash & onions!)
5. Green Papaya - I know it's a fruit not a veggie but in India, we prepare the green kind as a very yummy veggie dish

Zucchini, cauliflower and eggplant are the ones I tend to eat and cook most often but my favorite vegetable of all times is artichoke. I also like leek, celeriac (not celery but the root vegetable) but I only eat them at my mom's house. I don't like cooked tomatoes but fresh cucumber and tomato salad is one of my favorites (with a bit of feta cheese, balsamic vinegar and olive oil).

Zuccini..cooked any way ...fried, steamed, breaded, cooked in butter and garlic, baked in bread, shredded in eggs. added in pasta dishes, on and on.

Artichokes, Stuffed and steamed

Tomatoes, home grown.

mmm. Yummy question.

In no particular order - beets, butternut squash, any kind of greens (like beet or mustard), tomatoes but only in the summer when they're in season. And I really love the flavor onions add to dishes.

Thanks ladies! No similarities so far. Are potatoes considered a vegetable? No salads are allowed. Lettuce is delicious with dressing and all sorts of other goodies, so that would be cheating as an answer to this post :0)

I love pumpkin (including butternut squash which we call pumpkin here) sweet potato, peas onions and tomato

If potatoes are considered a vegetable, they would be my least favourite, along with cauliflower. But I will absolutely still eat them.

Anne, you reminded me of my Australian pumpkin experience. When I lived in college, they always served us pumpkin. It traumatized me. It was so awful. I don't think they seasoned it at all. It makes me laugh to remember.

I forgot to mention avocado. I LOVE avocado. I was slicing one up to have in our salad and stopped to post this update!

I love all vegetables but one of my favorites is brussel sprouts. My husband does all the cooking here and makes a great recipe with brussel sprouts and raisins.

GG- Brussels sprouts is my least favorite vegetable. I avoid it at all cost. Next to last is broccoli.

I am a vegetarian and I there is no vegetable that I dislike. I don't care much for potatoes, because I overdosed on them growing up.
My favorites (and staples) are:
all green veggies - spinach, kale, broccoli, rapini, etc
cauliflower
butternut squash
onions and garlc, of course

Veggies that I like but don't eat very often:
tomatoes - fresh and not supermarket kind
fava beans
eggplant
beets

Love brussels sprouts, too. Do mushrooms count?

I'm a vegetarian too, Marianne! But I just can't stomach brussel sprouts. Well done you, and Greenglove too! Here's mine:

Sweet Potatoes
Eggplant
Bella Mushrooms
Avocado
Fresh peppers- Green, red & Yellow. Eat em' like apples. Yum!

Poor Alecia - it is all a matter of what you are used too I guess. Did you try vegemite and meat pies? We eat pumpkin, just plain steamed about 4 times a week! I really love it best roasted, but also in thai curries.

Great thread topic! My favorites are (in no particular order)

Bell peppers
Cucumber
Artichoke
Sugar snap peas
Mushrooms (all varieties)
Butternut squash
Avocado
Broccolini (when it's good & not bland-flavored)
Jicama

I love all the following:

Any color bell peppers (I always end up snacking on them while cooking), avocado, snow peas, spinach, broccoli, artichoke, tomatoes, pumpkin, spring onions, mushrooms (shiitake and portobello are my favorites), squash, leeks, arugula, string beans, asparagus, any and all potatoes, and any kind of hot peppers make me blissful

I'm sure there is more.

The only things I can outright not stand to eat are celery and lettuce. I will eat lettuce anyway because it's unavoidable, but I would MUCH rather have spinach or arugula in its place. And I can eat anything if it has enough garlic. I love and adore garlic.

Yummy post. I was just thinking I have been not eating my veggies.
In the summer when we have our garden my very favorite garden fresh veggies are beets and beet greens, they are so creamy tasting. I also love fresh garden green beans, and hot garlic.
We don't grow here but I love avacados, really good tomatoes grown in a hot climate. Nothing beats a tomato and avacado sandwhich.
I like broccoli and cauliflower, and cooked mushrooms, artichokes. I should eat these more often.
M Australian friend says the thought of pumpkin pie is disgusting because they eat pumpkin with butter and salt and pepper as a side dish for dinner.
I have just learned to like the hard winter squash like Delicata. Did you know you can microwave them without poking holes in it, for 10 minutes and they cook perfectly.
Onions are a funny thing to me, they are everywhere and in everything but they really have a mean flavor.

(Why do I keep thinking this is a trick question? Like, your favorite vegetable is an indicator of your body type or something?)

Peppers (red and yellow), carrots, and squash - cut into slices and grilled in the backyard. Oh yes!

I had my Australian friend over for Thanksgiving a couple of years back, and while she loves pumpkin pie, she thought the fact that we could buy canned pumpkin here was absolutely bizarre. Seems like it's quite the popular vegetable there.

Anne, I was given a tube of vegemite as a gift. It was packaged like toothpaste which made it very unappetizing initially. It's one of those things that I go months without thinking about, and then suddenly one day I'll get an intense craving for it. Very odd. Perhaps it happens on days when I am experiencing a shortage of B vitamins.

Brussels sprouts - the absolute all-time favorite!
Broccoli
Asparagus
cauliflower
eggplant
cherry tomatoes

now I am hungry :)

I was a vegetarian for two years and still eat mainly vegetarian food. I love veggies.

courgette (zucchini)
aubergine (eggplant)
carrots
parsnips
tomatoes in every shape and form
peppers
garlic
chilli
sugar snap peas
french beans
spinach
potatoes
spring onions

when it comes to vegetables i still revert back to my childhood - which means i reject a lot of them. haha! aren't i terrible? but anyway...

chillies! EVERY VARIETY, the spicier the better.
eggplant
okra
garlic and onions mmmmm
carrots
spinach
potatoes
green beans and french beans
mushrooms (does that count? is it technically a fungus? ha)
bell peppers

This thread is making me hungry! I was also a vegetarian; I am no longer, but I must have my veggies. I have too many favorites. In no particular order:

Okra (esp if someone else cooks it for me with indian spices)
broccoli, cauliflower (to me they are interchangeable)
string beans
spinach
kale (particularly dinosaur kale)
broccoli rabe
asparagus
garlic, onion, leeks
mushrooms - any and all types
eggplant

brussel sprouts - I used to hate them, now I can't get enough. Preferably roasted and doused in sea salt. :-)

tomatoes - but preferably from the garden. I cannot stand grocery store tomatoes that have no flavor; it's a crime against mother nature.

chilies!!!
Avocado
artichoke - I make a mean artichoke soup :-)
jicama
sweet potato
cucumber
carrots - cooked or raw. I wish my family liked them cooked; I'd have them a lot more often.

lettuce - I know you said it didn't count, but to me it does. I think lettuce gets a bad rap!!! Really fresh lettuce - any variety - is a big treat all on its own. I also find that lettuce that has been heated slightly tastes even better; most people only consider lettuce crisp and cold in a salad. My husband thinks I'm strange because I'll take home leftover salad - where there's nothing left but lettuce - from the restaurant and heat it in the microwave the next day for a tasty treat. Did you know you can even make lettuce soup?

The only veggies I don't particularly care for, but will eat on occasion anyway:

Beets - they are okay if fresh. I don't care for the canned kind. And I can only stand them in small amounts, like a sprinkle in a salad. I wouldn't eat beet soup.... I've tried. :-(

Seaweed - (that's a veggie, isn't it?). I don't care for dried seaweed products like Nori or those seaweed sprinkles. But I can eat fresh seaweed in small amounts in a salad. It's not something I crave though.

Peppers - I like peppers in small doses only, and preferably cooked (as the base for a sauce) or at least lightly stir-fried. I hate it when you order stir-fry at a restaurant and 70% of the veggies are gigantic chunks of pepper. I like peppers, but not that much. And too much fresh pepper makes me burp! But I can eat it mixed in with salsa and gazpacho. Green pepper is my favorite.

Veggies I really can't stand and steer away from:

Squashes - I just don't have a taste for it. Blech.

While I also like fruit, I will choose veggies over fruit any day. I may be weird like that.

shiny - come on over - i'll make okra for you ;) it's very popular indian-style in malaysia too!

A special post just for lettuces ;-)

My favorites:

Arugula - this is hands-down my favorite lettuce. Love the peppery taste.

Swiss chard
Bibb
Boston
Endive - mmmmm
Frisee - I just love the texture
Raddichio
Mache
Watercress
Spinach
Romaine - but it's one of my least favorites, unless gently roasted.

and yes... good ol' iceberg too....

Re Pumpkin - yes very popular. It's taste can very markedly depending the season etc. Also there are different varieties - our favourites are kent and jap.
San I am surprised your friend thought the use of pumpkin in sweet dishes was disgusting becuase there is a long australian tradition of pumpkin scones.
Maya - I love pumpkin pie too (and occasionally growing up, we had homemade pumpkin custard which is pretty similiar), but yes, we don't have tinned pumpkin. If a recipe asks for it I have to cook it and mash it myself.
Vegemite is usually sold in jars - your friend probably had tubes for travelling reasons.

I am also quite fond of brocolli but mainly because it is so good at absorbing sauces. My children love it and will willingly take second helpings, so we eat it a LOT.

I am not a big veggie eater, but I like fruit even less, so I try to eat lots of them.

Hanna, if you can give me tips to make it at home myself, I'd love it!! I've tried before and ended up with a gelatinous, snotty mess that my family didn't care for. I ate it anyway - I can cure my okra cravings by simply microwaving frozen okra. But I think the secret is to mix it into a sauce so the snotty stuff isn't so noticeable, right?

Oh - pumpkin, I forgot pumpkin. I only care for it in a pie, all sweetened up. My DH's favorite veggie is pumpkin pie, so he makes us a pie (using canned pumpkin) about twice a month when his craving hits! By Thanksgiving, I'm happy to eat a different sort of pie because I've had enough.