Easy tasty veggie favorites

[dthomps]

I need new veggie recipes and/or one-pot meals to help me get my veggies in.

I'll start.

My favorite, favorite: Roasted cauliflower
Preheat overn to 400 degrees
head of cauliflower
salt
parmesean cheese
olive oil

Slice cauliflower into small pieces. Pieces about the size of the pinkie fingertip are about perfect. But bigger and smaller in the mix are delicious.
Toss cauliflower with a drizzle of olive oil -- enough to thinly coat the cauli. Toss in some parmesean -- enough to thinly coat the cauli. Salt to taste. I like a lot of salt. The salty cauli taste almost like french fries, only better.
Spread the cauliflower peices on a cookie sheet. Bake for 45 minutes.
Cauli will get a little brown and crunchy and stick to the cookie sheet. Use a spatula to scrape it off and mmmmmm. It's delicious.

[not2late]

Re: Easy tasty veggie favorites

I have a few....

Steam two batches of green beans. Eat one batch tonight for supper with butter, lemon peel, etc. Refrigerate the other batch for tomorrow's salad where you will mix it with sliced onions, sliced cherry tomatoes, a cheese like feta, and lemon juice or vinegar, olive oil, salt pepper, and herbs.

For the roasted cauliflower you make, make twice the amount you will normally eat. Eat one batch tonight. Refrigerate the other batch for tomorrow night, adding sour cream, curry powder, and sliced onions for a curried cauliflower salad.

I also use the recipe for a hot artichoke-spinach dip this way: make the artichoke-spinach dip, spread it on the bottom of a baking dish. Spread cooked sliced chicken that has been mixed with mayo. Bake it until everything is hot and bubbly. If sometimes substitute Swiss chard or beet greens for the spinach and artichoke.

These are two easy tomato salads. you need really ripe tomatoes for them.

Take a tomato, slice it into even rounds. Spread each round with mayo, freshly ground pepper (if you like). Then top half of the rounds with fresh basil leaves (if you have it), cooked bacon, thinly sliced onion, etc. Then sandwich those tomato rounds with the remaining tomato halves for a tomato sandwich-salad. Or leave them open-faced.

The other tomato salad sounds unusual, but it's very tasty! Slice tomatoes and onions. Put them on a platter or individual plate. Add sliced hard-boiled eggs. And dress the whole thing with mayo that has been thinned to a pouring consistency with either water, oil or a little low carb ketchup. Or just use a really good olive oil and a squeeze of lemon.

Editing to add.....

Celery slaw (it's very good. I prefer it to coleslaw now): slice the celery into matchstick sized pieces. Add sliced onion, mayo, Dijon mustard, salt and pepper. Mix well. Refrigerate.

Fennel salad: Fennel is a bulb with ferny leaves. Cut off the celery-like stalks (don't throw them away because they taste good in soup stocks or you can line the bottom of a roast pan with them when you are roasting chicken or fish---they add flavor.) As thin as you can, slice the bulb. Then toss the sliced fennel with olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper. It's also good if you slice the bulb into rather large chunks saute them in olive oil along with Italian sausage.

[liv]

Re: Easy tasty veggie favorites

Wow amazing recipes. Just what I need. I am really working on working in more veggies. I do love cauliflower rice but it is getting a bit over used