Category: Vegetables
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Roasted Winter Vegetables
When I went to link to the roast vegetables recipe I made at Thanksgiving (and again last night for a dinner party) I realized I never entered it! This is the easiest way to prepare winter vegetables, totally flexible in terms of what you put in, how you cook it, and so forth. My favorite…
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Green Beans with Peanut Sauce
Here’s a different one, for me at least. I didn’t measure a whole bunch when I made these Green Beans with Peanut Sauce so I’ll try to approximate here. The green beans had a nice Asian sort of flavor with the peanut butter and sesame seeds. I’d do maybe a little more soy sauce and garlic…
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Acorn Squash Baked with Maple Syrup
In my continuing desire to expand my vegetable repertoire, I bought a couple of winter squash the other day. Tonight I was fixing baked potatoes and some chicken breasts that had been frozen in a marinade. I decided squash would go well and could be baked in the same oven. Efficiency! Often I cheat with…
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Corn Fritters and More…
A friend dropped off a few ears of corn tonight, as she’d bought it yesterday then not cooked it and was going out tonight. I made corn fritters with some of it and then just sautéed the rest in a bit of butter, salted it, then added some 1/2 and 1/2. This very rough recipe…
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Fried Cauliflower
I’ve been trying to find some ways to get more of a variety of vegetables into our diet. I know frying isn’t healthy, but if the oil is hot enough, the food doesn’t absorb too much. And the kids loved this! This was from an old Italian cookbook. I used half a cauliflower because I…