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Well im not much for cooking veggies i like them raw. I love cauliflower and broccli cut up small mixed with ranch dressing and some bacon bits and shreddes cheddar cheese sprinlkled in. I find this a great summery salad.

Well if you get more tomatoes or just use a jar of red pasta sauce, you can make a semi-homemade pasta sauce for the side. Just dice up the vegetables and put those into the mix. All of the vegetables will work, but I'd add some more oregano and italian seasonings. If you want another healthy item, try having spinach in a pasta sauce or as part of the meatsauce mixture in lasagna. I provided a recipe for this for Stiletto, but the post was removed (incorrectly and unfairly I may add). Since I'm on a sinus/hist medicine at the time of this post, I'll try to keep it short and sweet, forgive any slips. Boil or quick boil the lasagna noodles. Prepare a mixture of pasta sauce, cooked ground beef and diced vegetables, including spinach. You'll want to add the vegetables in last and not cook those too long. Layer the first noodles at the bottom of an ovenworthy dish. Spread ricotta cheese, provolone and other chesses you may want on that. Then layer your meat/pasta sauce. Layer the second noodles on top and repeat with more layers if you want. When you are finished, top the lasagna with the remaining noodles, then mozzerella and provolone (or whatever you wish here). Bake @ 400 F for about 30 minutes or until the edges of the lasagna turn golden/golden brown. As I say, your cooking times and needs can vary with ovens and lasagna serving sizes.

You can make a version of eggplant Parmesan using zucchini. I've made it before, and it was very good. For carrots, I like to make a stir-fry with shredded cabbage, carrots, and thinly sliced green pepper. For vegetables cooked on the grill, I like to use balsamic vinaigrette dressing, and toss the vegetables with it in a large bowl. I have a grill basket that I can put the cut up vegetables in to make it easier to cook them. I think Home Depot has them, and the best one is stainless steel, that can be coated with cooking spray so the vegetables won't stick. I like to cook cauliflower, and mash it like mashed potatoes, seasoned with salt and pepper, and a little butter. Also, there are all kinds of recipes for cauliflower soup on the food network, and other websites. One I liked had northern beans, and fennel, and was pureed. Hope this helps.

Mmmmm....well if you have all those veggies...how about making a good hearty vegetable type soup? First saute some onions, and the mushrooms until done, add about a quart of water, to give a bit of flavor maybe add a chicken bouillon (or beef would work too), cut up the carrots, celery, zucchini and add and let simmer until done...if you have a can of say kidney beans, drain and wash the liquid from that and add also to the soup..also if you want cook up separately some macaroni then add to the soup a little before the soup is done and presto, sort of have a minestrone soup--can add whatever kind of herbs to it too like parsley, basil, etc. As for exact measurements of anything...rarely do that...kind of wing it on my own--hey good cooks don't measure...hehe As for the cauliflower...you eat it raw???? There's this link that gives a whole bunch of recipes for cauliflower, including a soup too http://southernfood.about.com/od/cauliflower/Cauliflower_Recipes.htm

The only thing that comes to mind at the moment is steaming these veggies such as zucchini and squash, carrots etc and adding lemon pepper to them. I prefer pepper over salt any day, but the lemon gives it some Zest.

My first thought when Ii read your post was that you should make a salad. Another idea is to steam the veggies and add a little sea salt. My mother used to make a culiflower and brocolli casserol but after the cream of mushroom soup and the cheese are added it is not too healthy. Stir-fried vegetables are always good. Just fry then in olive oil and lightly season :-)

raw is best but after that the best way is steamed, that way all the nutrients stay within the vegetables. The only cauliflower recipe I have is baked with a white cheese sauce, but you do have boil the cauliflower first.

How about a good stir fry? Just cut them up and with a little olive oil stir fry them with some soy sauce,garlic and onion..Then you can add cooked or canned meat to that and serve over rice..

You have a nice side salad right there! Add some lettuce and other fave salad ingredients, and you would have the ultimate salad!

how about some zucchini bread ,carrot cake mushroom soup

pput all this good veggies together with your favorite pasta and a good tomato pasta sauce and you are allset.you could add a little hamburger or shrimp for protein and you really have a feast. as for raw caulflower I make a salad of greens and tomatoes and raw cauflower with cooked green peas and ranch dressing and its so good with a touch of basil sprinkled over it.