No Cook Vegetable Picnic Salads
Getting enough vegetables into the American diet has been a national focus point for some time. Since eating is not an option, I’m always surprised when people are willing to settle for a small variety of foods in their diet.
Of course, our local grocery stores and food manufacturers are also to blame. Looking at the frozen vegetable section of the market concludes that corn, green beans, broccoli, cauliflower, peas and carrots are the only vegetables grown. The fresh produce section is not much better.
This leads us to a related problem. Most people don’t know how to cook the everyday vegetables, let alone anything outside of the above mentioned six. Kale, for instance, is fabulous poached in an herbed wine broth. Beets are fresh at the farm stands now and are great by themselves gently boiled in salted water or roasted in the oven. There are great varieties of pumpkin grown locally that are best when grilled in slices outdoors. Recipes are on the way to solve those mysteries.