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Over dinner last night, I read Eat food. Stuff you like. As much as you want. by Michelle over at Fat Nutritionist, and it occurred to me that I want to like vegetables, not least because my body seems to ask for them on a semi-regular basis... but I don't know what to do with them. When I was a kid, veggies came from a can and were served as-is (which is to say, disgustingly). I don't have the experience to evaluate a veggie-centric recipe for whether or not I'll like it, and as a result it's proving difficult to bootstrap myself up to preparing meals with them as often as I'd like.

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[siderea]

I'm not a big believer in doing elaborate things with veggies, though the zucchini you're rashly cultivating will require some treatment. Mostly, though, vegetables come already tasty.

In particular, I buy frozen peas, which I nuke in a tiny bit of water in a covered dish, and they come up perfectly scrumptuous. Frozen broccoli works out OK too; you might want to put butter/margarine, salt and pepper on them. The margarine, salt and pepper thing works very nicely on french-cut frozen green beans.

My normal heuristic is three minutes of nuking at a time, stop and stir, and repeat until it's sufficiently cooked.

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I'll try that. Thanks!