Vegetables

Are you eating enough cabbage?   Oven Roasted Slaw combines the assets of cole…

This no-fry meatless approach makes a sophisticated year-round entrée or side dish. Even without summer tomatoes or an outdoor grill, make this dish anyway. Good canned tomatoes and a hot oven broiler are get the job done for this new-fashioned dish.

New Mexico green chile nuts like us might find it difficult to settle for regular old ratatouille after this Green Chile Ratatouille because, frankly, it will taste like something’s missing. Something important. Which it will be.

As the pico sits, you’ll notice that those juicy tomatoes will produce quite a bit of liquid at the bottom of the bowl. This is good news, so don’t pour it down the drain after your dinner tacos! Store the pico juice in the fridge, and at cocktail hour the next day, put it to use in a round of pico marys or pico marias.

Everything is big at Bob’s Steak & Chop House at the Omni Nashville Hotel: big-city atmosphere, big comfy booths, big juicy prime steaks, big cocktails, big onion rings, big brownie sundaes — and gargantuan carrots!

Yellow squash is best when cooked slowly to a very soft state in butter. Zucchini is best when cooked quickly, just until just crisp tender, in olive oil.