Interesting Veggies

[jfain]

I find that there is usually a lot less time spent on truly innovative vegetable dishes. For me I think making a totally unique vegetable dish is really a challenge. Some of my favorites are roasted cauliflower with cocoa powder, carrot osso buco, green peas with shiitake mushrooms and dill and green beans with coconut. What are some of your favorite veggie dishes?

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

My favorites are simple......Grilled Asparagus, and fresh green beans from the garden.

Your veggies sound delightful you simply must share some recipes for them pretty please!

[jglass]

I love all kinds of veggies. My favs are oven roasted baby new potatoes with onions garlic and a little turnip. Toss with olive oil then season it with some herbs de provence, salt and pepper.
Sometimes I just do salt, pepper, rosemary & thyme which is equally yummy.

I love just about any veggie roasted. Love roasted cherry tomatoes, asparagus, cauliflower, broccoli, squash and mushrooms. I keep meaning to get some fennel the next time I go to Kroger's but manage to forget when Im there lol. I have never tried it.

[Mapiva]

I love vegetable stews like okra and tomatoe, or green bean/tomato/potato.

I love stuffing vegetables especially.

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Speaking of stuffed veggies, we are having stuffed bell peppers with peppers from the garden tonight!!!

[Mapiva]

How do you stuff yours? I stuff mine with this rice mixture.

- 2 cups white uncooked rice
- handful of chopped fresh parsley
- handful of chopped fresh mint
- 2 zucchinis grated
- 1 large onion grated
- 2 large tomatoes seeded, skinned, and crushed
- salt/pepper
- 1 tsp cumin
- a few glugs of good olive oil.

Mix all ingredients (it will be a wet mixture, not stiff) and let it sit for about a half hour until the rice puffs up a bit, or sautee lightly. Stuff the peppers and bake covered with foil for an hour at 350 then remove foil and continue baking for another 20 minutes until desired goldenness.

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Well as of the past few months I have used some Ras-el-Hanout in my meat mixture, I also use cooked rice and onion, and tomato paste, and egg and also some milk, and garlic.

I should try the rice mixture you suggest here, it sounds wonderful, and you know sometimes I like to try something new! I still think my stuffed grape leaves are the very best in the world but the peppers are a close second! I'll bet the rice filling you mention here is really GREAT in Grape Leaves?!?

[Mapiva]

Yes, it's the exact same mixture I use in grape leaves too.

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

I've really got to give it a try, I will let you know how I like them. Do you ever have them cold in olive oil? (The stuffed Grape Leaves?) I know I see them like that at deli's and Mid-East stores, I just wonder why they do them like that.

Our Peppers turned out so good tonight!

[Mapiva]

I think that's just the way they preserve them over longer periods of time.