Vegetables - I need some inspiration ...

Short of time?;)

What about a yeast-base vegetarian pizza?? ...topped with an interesting mix of a wide variety of vegetables.

I am so sick of eating broccoli every night just because I know my kids will eat it.During the summer they eat loads of fresh vegetables because I make a huge salad every night that has loads of variety but I just don't seem to be able to get them to eat that much variety in winter and I don't want to go back to doing the big salad because I feel they need something warm to eat at night.

I thought tonight I would do a homestyle version of ratatouille with just basically tomato, garlic, zucchini, onion and capsicum (hubby doesn't like eggplant and its too hard to disquise) to go with our baked chicken.Any other suggestions!

Crumbed Cauli. I make it as easy as possible - cut cauli into florets, dust with flour, dip in beaten egg then breadcrumbs. Then place on a roasting dish, spray lightly with oil and bake until tender. Serve with chesse or hollandaise sauce. Very yummy!

Pea puree is a treat in our house, just whizz up some cooked peas with a little butter and creme fraiche. Carrots roasted in a little orange juice with a sprinkle of cumin, thenjust towards the end throw in a little garlic to cook.You can then crumble some feta over.Mash potatoes, just add in other veggies when cooking potatoes, ie kumara, pumpkin onion, and mash as normal. Another thing I found is when cooking veggies for kids generally they like them alot softer then we probably do.Roast cauliflower sweetens up.Why not try making tempura veggies first so they get accustomed to their flavours.They do say kids have to try things about 10 times before they like them, and usually it is much easier for them to say I don`t like something, then work out if you do!

How about a big thick vege soup! You can put almost any vegetable in the pot with some soup mix and a handful of rice; and for a complete meal add some chunks of beef or chicken to it as well. Perfect for this cold weather.

i layer potato, onion, cheese, carrot,pumpkin, kumera, more cheese, potato, onion, depends how many vege i have as to how many layers, grease casserole dish first, then put cheese on top and pour milk in till it is about 3.4's of the way up the vege, then bake in oven at 150 till cooked, let it stand for about 10 mins before serving, most if not all of the milk will have been absorbed by the vege. This is about the only way i can get a variety of vege into my husband, oh and of course vege soup.

or cube a whole of different vege and roast them with some garlic, then in a cake tin one of those spring sided ones, put a tortilla then a layer of your vege, some chopped silverbeet or spinach, mushrooms if you like them, some tinned tomatoes and a layer of cheese sauce, then another tortilla and build until cake tin nice and full, you can alternate your layers of vege with a layer of mince (done like spag bog mince). Leave in the tin tool cool, remove and refrigerate and then slice and heat in microwave. You can use it from hot in the oven but does not stay together as nice.

also if you use the search box on the left and type in vegetables and then in the date posted box click on the little arrow and then on anytime and then click search there is loads of inspiration there.

We have an eat it or starve policy in our house though - its just that I've become rather "set in my ways" as far as veggies are concerned.The boys are 15 and 12 so I think they are well beyond the age where I should "pander" to their whims as to whether or not they will eat something.When they were younger (ie. pre-schoolers) they would eat any vegetable I put in front of them virtually - I think they, and I, have just got a bit lazy and gone for convenience especially since I don't have much time to cook when I get home from work.Anyway, off to the supermarket now and see if I can find some inspiration there - might start with some flavoured tomatoes chopped tomatoes and work from there.

Forgive me if this is a stupid question.

the roasted carrots above sound devine! Do you chop them up or roast them whole. And is any kind of orange juice ok! (I'm assuming real orange juice!) How long do they take!

cookessentials. you're making me drool in my keyboard! lol

I see quite a lot of recipes using bacon, does it add a lot to a dish calorie wise!We love bacon in this house, eggs benedict is a once in a while treat though because of the bacon.

Forgive me if this is a stupid question.

the roasted carrots above sound devine! Do you chop them up or roast them whole. And is any kind of orange juice ok! (I'm assuming real orange juice!) How long do they take!

I never thought of squeezing an orange! LOL

They sound divine. I'm trying to get out of a rut with our dinners, and I really like carrots but my partner hates them. He'll eat baby carrots though, so I'm picking if I jazz things up a bit he might be keen.

Thanks. I think the baby carrots taste sweeter too, that may be why he likes them. Will have a go at roasting some tomorrow and see how it goes.

cookessentials. you're making me drool in my keyboard! lol

I see quite a lot of recipes using bacon, does it add a lot to a dish calorie wise!We love bacon in this house, eggs benedict is a once in a while treat though because of the bacon.

ruffle how long to bake! 30 mins!

sometimes its how you serve it, so take the broccoli and blanch it with maybe some fresh beans (my vege shop sells fresh round beans at a good price) and you dont need many but make your salad a combination of blanched vege and roasted vege with a nice dressing, i had thai beef salad for dinner the other night and added blanced vege to the lettcue it was delish!if the dont like cauli try them with it raw with a dip, or puree with curry powder - alot of yummy indian ways with vege too you can even make an indian style batter and add your vege and fry

I have started a "vegetables" thread so if you have any great recipes, can you pop them in there too!

Short of time!;)

What about a yeast-base vegetarian pizza! .topped with an interesting mix of a wide variety of vegetables.

i'm big on stir fries.also finely sliced cabbaged sauted in butter.

Just spotted the two 11 Sept side by side.time flies;)

I like your sauted cabbage with a little curry powder and chopped hard-boiled eggs.

I just wondered why my thread from so long ago had been bumped!Kids still refuse to eat cauliflower, mushrooms and pumpkin and a whole host of other yummy veggies - their loss, I cook what we want to eat and if they don't eat it then they go hungry.

i'm big on stir fries.also finely sliced cabbaged sauted in butter.

I just wondered why my thread from so long ago had been bumped!Kids still refuse to eat cauliflower, mushrooms and pumpkin and a whole host of other yummy veggies - their loss, I cook what we want to eat and if they don't eat it then they go hungry.

I am so sick of eating broccoli every night just because I know my kids will eat it.During the summer they eat loads of fresh vegetables because I make a huge salad every night that has loads of variety but I just don't seem to be able to get them to eat that much variety in winter and I don't want to go back to doing the big salad because I feel they need something warm to eat at night.

I thought tonight I would do a homestyle version of ratatouille with just basically tomato, garlic, zucchini, onion and capsicum (hubby doesn't like eggplant and its too hard to disquise) to go with our baked chicken.Any other suggestions!

Vegetables - I need some inspiration ...

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