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a few ideas for increasing veggie consumption
Get a glass pyrex dish with a lid. Many veggies, you can just throw
them in there and nuke with a tablespoon of water. I do this with an artichoke regularly, as well as cauliflower or broccoli to be used further in other recipes. The artichoke is easy enough to even have with breakfast often. Drain the cauliflower or broccoli and nuke with some raw cheddar cheese sprinkled on top. This time of year, I like to mash the cauliflower and then follow a recipe for leek soup, replacing the potatoes with cauliflower. It's a very stick-to-your-ribs kind of meal. Most people are not terribly fond of steamed veggies on a regular basis though. So stirfry most of them. You don't have to have 10 ingredients to do a stirfry. Just stirfy one or two things. It's like salads - yes, they're better with 20 ingredients, but you never eat that much, so better to just do a few ingredients and do it differently each time. I often use avocado oil for stirfry, but also have found it's quite yummy to saute in concentrated homemade broths also. If the broths are made from pasture-raised animals, I don't skim off the fat, so wind up with stuff that is very thick and gelatinized with a layer of fat on top. This makes very flavorful stirfries. Stirfries are always improved with seasoning, most commonly I use pressed garlic, minced ginger and soy sauce. But it does depend. I often fry a big batch of different colored bell peppers, onions and garlic in olive oil. A bowl of this is nice with some Parmesan sprinkled on top. Leftovers make a nice condiment for topping a salad and/or a sandwich. I also stirfry shredded zucchini and cabbage often, without flavorings. These makes a nice replacement for pasta and noodles. I like the zucchini better with tomato sauces and the cabbage with cream sauces (like stroganoff). I eat salad a lot more if the stuff is already cut up so I cut up veggies destined for raw eating as soon as I bring them home. Lots of various sauces and dressings change the flavors as well - variety is important so you don't get bored. A nice dressing for a change of pace is some Greek yogurt with minced shallot and a bit of lime juice. Roasting veggies is very nice. Roasted veggies are nicely yummy, they carmelize wonderfully. It works particularly well for things not quite as fresh and young as you might like. For example, take a pound of green beans and toss with a TB of oil, put on a foil lined baking sheet and pop in the oven at 450 for ten minutes. Take them out, stir and season (salt, freshly ground black pepper and garlic powder is nice) and pop them back in for another ten minutes. They look awful, but taste great. You can roast all sorts of non-starchy veggies; this time of year they're really good. Bake large veggies to get them cooked easier. Most of us know this about squash, but it works for eggplant too. Just throw it in the oven while you're in the kitchen already for a half hour or so. The next day, stir the mash up with a bit of spaghetti sauce and some shredded mozzarella and nuke; it's a lot easier than a full eggplant parmesan recipe. I do an acorn squash now and then also; just cut in half, scoop the seeds and pulp out, replace with breakfast sausage and bake until cooked through. Leftovers nuke easily. -- http://www.ornery-geeks.org/consulting/ |
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a few ideas for increasing veggie consumption
On Nov 19, 4:26 am, Jackie Patti wrote:
Get a glass pyrex dish with a lid. Many veggies, you can just throw them in there and nuke with a tablespoon of water. I do this with an artichoke regularly, as well as cauliflower or broccoli to be used further in other recipes. The artichoke is easy enough to even have with breakfast often. Drain the cauliflower or broccoli and nuke with some raw cheddar cheese sprinkled on top. This time of year, I like to mash the cauliflower and then follow a recipe for leek soup, replacing the potatoes with cauliflower. It's a very stick-to-your-ribs kind of meal. Most people are not terribly fond of steamed veggies on a regular basis though. So stirfry most of them. You don't have to have 10 ingredients to do a stirfry. Just stirfy one or two things. It's like salads - yes, they're better with 20 ingredients, but you never eat that much, so better to just do a few ingredients and do it differently each time. I often use avocado oil for stirfry, but also have found it's quite yummy to saute in concentrated homemade broths also. If the broths are made from pasture-raised animals, I don't skim off the fat, so wind up with stuff that is very thick and gelatinized with a layer of fat on top. This makes very flavorful stirfries. Stirfries are always improved with seasoning, most commonly I use pressed garlic, minced ginger and soy sauce. But it does depend. I often fry a big batch of different colored bell peppers, onions and garlic in olive oil. A bowl of this is nice with some Parmesan sprinkled on top. Leftovers make a nice condiment for topping a salad and/or a sandwich. I also stirfry shredded zucchini and cabbage often, without flavorings. These makes a nice replacement for pasta and noodles. I like the zucchini better with tomato sauces and the cabbage with cream sauces (like stroganoff). I eat salad a lot more if the stuff is already cut up so I cut up veggies destined for raw eating as soon as I bring them home. Lots of various sauces and dressings change the flavors as well - variety is important so you don't get bored. A nice dressing for a change of pace is some Greek yogurt with minced shallot and a bit of lime juice. Roasting veggies is very nice. Roasted veggies are nicely yummy, they carmelize wonderfully. It works particularly well for things not quite as fresh and young as you might like. For example, take a pound of green beans and toss with a TB of oil, put on a foil lined baking sheet and pop in the oven at 450 for ten minutes. Take them out, stir and season (salt, freshly ground black pepper and garlic powder is nice) and pop them back in for another ten minutes. They look awful, but taste great. You can roast all sorts of non-starchy veggies; this time of year they're really good. Bake large veggies to get them cooked easier. Most of us know this about squash, but it works for eggplant too. Just throw it in the oven while you're in the kitchen already for a half hour or so. The next day, stir the mash up with a bit of spaghetti sauce and some shredded mozzarella and nuke; it's a lot easier than a full eggplant parmesan recipe. I do an acorn squash now and then also; just cut in half, scoop the seeds and pulp out, replace with breakfast sausage and bake until cooked through. Leftovers nuke easily. --http://www.ornery-geeks.org/consulting/ Okay, and then there's the emergency antioxidant protocol. when you're at work most of your waking life and have erratic access to any kind of kitchen. I'm forced to initiate this most of the time. Protocol details: drink eight ounces of supplemented green food powder in water or liquid whole food supplement. Sometimes I'll add fiber and a cal/mag packet. Last night when I got home, having managed two Advantage bars and a couple of cups of green tea during the day, I added green food powder to ginseng tea. The result was like drinking pond scum. I literally had the thought that this was what Primordial Soup probably tasted like. c Evolution in a Teacup |
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a few ideas for increasing veggie consumption
Losertown USA wrote:
Okay, and then there's the emergency antioxidant protocol. when you're at work most of your waking life and have erratic access to any kind of kitchen. I'm forced to initiate this most of the time. Protocol details: drink eight ounces of supplemented green food powder in water or liquid whole food supplement. Sometimes I'll add fiber and a cal/mag packet. Last night when I got home, having managed two Advantage bars and a couple of cups of green tea during the day, I added green food powder to ginseng tea. The result was like drinking pond scum. I literally had the thought that this was what Primordial Soup probably tasted like. Those products have never looked appetizing to me. I genuinely *like* many vegetables, but drinking pond scum has never appealed. When I worked fulltime, I made salads on the weekends. I had these tupperwares with multiple compartments, like for TV dinners. I'd fill up one section with fresh veggies, one with salad dressing, and one with something like tuna salad, deviled eggs, some sort of protein. Keeping the stuff separate, they'd last all week so I could take them to work for lunches. When my schedule was normal, I'd cook a pound of bacon on the weekends too. Then nuke some in the morning and cook a couple eggs for breakfast, with fried peppers, onions or mushrooms added for variety. And at night, cook a burger also with various fried veggies for variety. Awful as this will sound, I used the same pan for a week, washing it again on the weekend before cooking up more bacon. So the eggs and burgers were always bacon-flavored, even if I wasn't actually eating bacon at that particular meal. When they overtime was heavy, I'd eat the innards of a drive-through breakfast sandwich on the way in and a burger wrapped in lettuce at another drive-through on the way home. Then, the *only* cooking I did was right after grocery shopping on the weekends to make my salad lunches. I'm having a lot more fun cooking lots of veggie dishes now that I have more time in the kitchen than I did back then. -- http://www.ornery-geeks.org/consulting/ |
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