Dept. of Silly questions, Breakfast Vegetables Division

[kinzel]

What vegetables do you eat for breakfast? Hpe do you cook them?

We ... tend to have tomatoes, peppers, onions, garlic (vegetable or spice?), chives, often with eggs or sometimes with potatoes.

We ... need to add veggies to breakfast since we're so bad about getting veggies at supper.

Suggestions?

Comments

[amm-me.livejournal.com]

I'm no help; oatmeal (NOT instant) unsweetened, made with lots of raisins, enough to count for a serving of fruit, is my standard breakfast. Whole grains in the morning, veg for dinner.

To get several vegetables to go with my minimal meat course, without a lot of complicated preparation, I have recently developed a mixed vegetable routine that serves me well. Once the farmers' market runs out of summer squash and new potatoes I'll have to modify it.

Set a covered saucepan heating with a quarter inch or so of water, while dicing a potato or two (they're little). Put it in the pan, spread all over the bottom, and start cooking while slicing up a summer squash. Put the squash pieces on top of the potato and keep cooking, covered. Then maybe chop a third veg, something quick-cooking like bok choy or chard or sweet pepper, or a tomato. Add to the top of the mix, with a pat of butter. Cook till the water is gone and you hear the butter sizzling. Remove cover, check that the potato is done, stir a few times and cook till some browning occurs. Replace lid, turn off the fire, and wait a minute, so that the remaining moisture loosens the browned pieces from the pan. Dump on plate, with salt if you need it. No spices, just good real-food vegetable flavors. Probably won't work with pallid winter grocery-store vegetables.