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    Veggie tales!

    Steamed veggies have been the thing around my house lately.

    There are a few ways I fix them.

    I just steam them over water, make a plain steamed rice in the bottom pan- you can use chicken, beef or tomato bullion to flavor the rice. You can also sub chicken or beef broth for the water.

    I use either butter or ranch dressing when I serve up a plate!

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    If you like you can use almost any veggie combo- My faves are broccoli, onions, cauliflower, string beans, potatoes, zucchini and carrots.

    Bell peppers and celery are good too!

    I got a tip about how to prep the veggies- plastic bag, add veggies, some oil and garlic salt/powder-shake and put into the steamer.

    You can add any dried herbs to the bag. I like rosemary or basil the best!

    If you have any kind of left over meats you can slice them and toss them into the mircowave or add them cold to your final dish.

    Try it and have fun, it's an easy way to fix a meal. If you like, you can prep all the veggies before hand and put them into a bowl in the fridge.


    I prep the cauliflower, carrots, onions and broccoli first, that way I can chop whatever I want to add to the mix!

    Hint? Try and cut everything into the same sized pieces-that way everything cooks at the same time!

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    Quote Originally Posted by RICHARD View Post
    I got a tip about how to prep the veggies- plastic bag, add veggies, some oil and garlic salt/powder-shake and put into the steamer.
    Wouldn't the plastic bag melt?

    Sorry, I am allergic to so many veggies, anyway. I'm just no fun.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Karen View Post
    Wouldn't the plastic bag melt?

    Sorry, I am allergic to so many veggies, anyway. I'm just no fun.

    LOL, how stupid of me.....You mix all the veggies in the bag, then empty it into the steamer!

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    Quote Originally Posted by RICHARD View Post
    LOL, how stupid of me.....You mix all the veggies in the bag, then empty it into the steamer!
    Just wanted to make that clarification for folks who CAN eat veggies. Leaving them in the bag would get pretty messy - and inedible as well!
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    Richard, for a minute I thought you had started watching cartoons. My grandson loves Veggie Tales! You have given me some good ideas and I thank you. Steaming vegetables preserves more of their "goodness" so you are really eating healthy. Good for you and good for all of us. Yum!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pam View Post
    Richard, for a minute I thought you had started watching cartoons. My grandson loves Veggie Tales!
    LOL, I do like Wonder Pets. I think the music and lyrics are funny.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pam View Post
    Richard, for a minute I thought you had started watching cartoons. My grandson loves Veggie Tales!
    I have to admit that every time I see the title of this thread, the cartoon theme song starts running through my head.

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    I love most vegetables! This sounds really good. I'd like to try different kinds of squash together.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukedogsmom View Post
    I love most vegetables! This sounds really good. I'd like to try different kinds of squash together.
    Do the squash with yellow onions and carrots.

    Dress them with a touch of bottled dressing-Italian, the spicy kind is killer!

    The carrots and the onions get so sweet it a crime!

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    Quote Originally Posted by RICHARD View Post

    LOL, how stupid of me ...
    You mix all the veggies in the bag,

    then empty it into the steamer!
    Quote Originally Posted by Karen View Post

    Just wanted to make that clarification for folks who CAN eat veggies.
    Leaving them in the bag would get pretty messy -
    and inedible as well!
    You Guys!

    Just like all the other I-net and TV "Cooks" ...

    Just gloss rite over all those "phine points" and lil details that make the
    BIG difference between success and something the Dawgs won't touch!


    WRITE what you MEAN ... and QUIT leavin stuff out!
    Those lil "details" where "veryone knows THAT" =

    NO, "everyone" does NOT know all that stuff.

    The first Green Bell Peppers I ever bought almost rotted before I managed to
    find the "directions" for how to "open 'em" and what to do next!

    Where's my Kan Opener? ... I gotta "cook" lunch!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Cinder & Smoke View Post
    You Guys!

    Just like all the other I-net and TV "Cooks" ...

    Just gloss rite over all those "phine points" and lil details that make the
    BIG difference between success and something the Dawgs won't touch!


    WRITE what you MEAN ... and QUIT leavin stuff out!
    Those lil "details" where "veryone knows THAT" =

    NO, "everyone" does NOT know all that stuff.

    The first Green Bell Peppers I ever bought almost rotted before I managed to
    find the "directions" for how to "open 'em" and what to do next!

    Where's my Kan Opener? ... I gotta "cook" lunch!


    Oh dear, Phred - you need a copy of Fanny Farmer's basic cookbook. It has an entry for every vegetable, for example, and assumes you know absolutely nothing about 'em - quite helpful for newbies to the kitchen!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Karen View Post

    Oh dear, Phred - you need a copy of Fanny Farmer's basic cookbook.

    ... assumes you know absolutely nothing about 'em -
    quite helpful for newbies to the kitchen!


    I've heard all that before!

    MOM sent me off on my first job in Endwell, New York, armed with similar words
    and one of Betty Crocker's famous "beginner's cookin books"!

    I got lost half way down the first page ...
    I never admitted it to Mom, but I re-gifted the book to who I thought at the time
    was a needy young lady. She didn't share my thoughts ... I never got invited for dinner.
    (And never saw the cookin book again, either.)

    Iffin I can't understand the "directions" printed on the back of the box or bag,
    then the "Pretty Picture on the Front" never makes it to the check-out line!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Cinder & Smoke View Post


    I've heard all that before!

    MOM sent me off on my first job in Endwell, New York, armed with similar words
    and one of Betty Crocker's famous "beginner's cookin books"!

    I got lost half way down the first page ...
    I never admitted it to Mom, but I re-gifted the book to who I thought at the time
    was a needy young lady. She didn't share my thoughts ... I never got invited for dinner.
    (And never saw the cookin book again, either.)

    Iffin I can't understand the "directions" printed on the back of the box or bag,
    then the "Pretty Picture on the Front" never makes it to the check-out line!

    Okay, so it is true - cookbooks don't work iff'n ya don't read 'em! ... Tucking the Fanny Farmer paperback under your pillow won't make the knowledge leak in while you're sleeping, either - it'll just give ya a crick in the neck!

    But I will promise to post clarifications to recipes if I think anyone's skippin' a step for ya, okay?
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