Vegetable Dishes : Vegetable Gardening Tip

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Vegetable Dishes - Baking your Garden

Gardening is one of the most popular hobbies for millions of people around the world. If you are a novice, you might fear what to do with all of the produce you have coming from your garden. Or while you might be an avid gardener, you can always use more recipes for your harvest. Take advantage of the following vegetable dishes by using your own vegetables fresh out of the garden.

One of the easiest vegetables to grow is zucchini. Mound up a little dirt, put a seed in the middle and wait for the rain. After a few weeks, vines will start sprouting and away they go! Since zucchini are the easiest, many people grow them and end up with surplus. So even if you don’t grow zucchini, you may get some from a neighbor or relative who has too many. Here’s one of the vegetable dishes you can make with them:

Fried Zucchini

This recipe is so simple, but so good, that half of the batch doesn’t make it to the serving platter. We eat it right out of the pan and don’t mind the burned fingers!

Cut zucchini in to ¼” to ½” inch slices. You can choose to fry them as slices or cut in to quarters for smaller pieces that cook faster. Pre-heat a skillet or fry pan and add pat of butter in the center. Once it is melted, pour in your zucchini and spread out so they are thin over the bottom. After several minutes, stir the cubed pieces or flip the circles to brown on the other side. Once the zucchini is soft and browned to your liking, salt the top. Serve warm.

Carrots are another easy vegetable to grow that has many healthy benefits for you. It is also a vegetable that you can get kids to eat rather easily. If they don’t, one of the most delicious vegetable dishes is a sweetened version that may get them to like carrots.

Glazed carrots

After you pull carrots from the ground, clean and peel them. Depending on the variety you use, you may need to cut them in half or slices of about 3 inches long. Prepare about one pound of carrots.

In a large pot, bring several cups of water to a boil. Add carrots and cook until slightly tender, but yet still firm. While carrots are cooking, heat a skillet and add ¼ cup of butter and 2 tablespoons of honey. Stir together and keep warm over low heat. When the carrots are tender, discard the water and place carrots in skillet. Add one pinch of ginger and 2 tablespoons of lemon juice. Stir to coat and cook until they are heated through.

Lastly, this dish combines four of the great elements from your garden: corn, green beans, peas and carrots.

Mixed Veggie Bake

Prepare vegetables so you have half a cup each of peas out of their shell, snipped green beans, sliced carrots and corn off the cob. Pour all of the vegetables in a greased casserole dish. Add one can of cream of mushroom soup and 1/3 cup of sour cream. Stir until mixed. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes and remove from the oven. Sprinkle shredded cheese over the top and add fried onions if desired. Return to the oven for the cheese to melt, about five minutes. Serve warm alone or with a meat dish.

Thank you to Tina Musial for this "Vegetable Dishes" article.

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