I've been taking cooking seriously for a long time now, but the truth of the matter is that I have focused primarily on main dishes consisting of meat. After that I'd saying eggs and baking have been given a lot of practice. This is all well and good, but... vegetables are sort of an important thing. Not only that, but I'm really not a fan in general, at least in terms of everyday veggies.
Does anyone know of a good vegetable resource so my sides aren't so... boring? (Other than slaw. Slaw is easy and delicious, especially since I ditched the salt brine step because it turns something I can whip in 10 minutes into a project.) I feel like I have a pretty good idea about how to make meat work at a basic enough level to where I know what temperatures, techniques, etc. just work.
With veggies, if they're not part of a soup or slaw (or even some killer pressure cooked greens that, in all honesty, are totally carried by the ham hock and not the leaves) it's usually just a quick sauté which makes them little more than an after though. I could improve my diet in general and maybe get my kids to do something other than turn up their noses if I had a larger, more interesting box of tricks.
PS: I detest chopping veggies. I'm likely going to have to get over that.
Does anyone know of a good vegetable resource so my sides aren't so... boring? (Other than slaw. Slaw is easy and delicious, especially since I ditched the salt brine step because it turns something I can whip in 10 minutes into a project.) I feel like I have a pretty good idea about how to make meat work at a basic enough level to where I know what temperatures, techniques, etc. just work.
With veggies, if they're not part of a soup or slaw (or even some killer pressure cooked greens that, in all honesty, are totally carried by the ham hock and not the leaves) it's usually just a quick sauté which makes them little more than an after though. I could improve my diet in general and maybe get my kids to do something other than turn up their noses if I had a larger, more interesting box of tricks.
PS: I detest chopping veggies. I'm likely going to have to get over that.
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