Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The Big Casino Way to Cook Vegetables

A couple years ago I decided to try to eat better by eating more fruits and vegetables and discovered the best way to cook vegetables.  I use a deep non-stick frying pan with a lid, but I believe others would work as long as you had a lid.  Put just a dab of olive oil in the pan and heat it up.  Throw in fresh vegetables that you cut up fairly small, like green beans to 1/2 inch, sliced carrots, corn cut off the cob, chopped broccoli or cauliflower.  Put on the lid and turn it down to two/thirds.  Another great thing is to count to 100 or so and throw in a couple tomatoes all chopped up.  Soon, like five minutes or so the vegetables are al dente and very tasty.  And here comes the real deal...push the mixture to the top of the pan, crank up the heat and center the heat on the now cleared bottom part and add a little oil.  Saute some onions and tore up tortillas until done.  Mix the whole thing together with a beat up egg until the egg is cooked.  Turn off the heat, put on some shredded cheese.  Eat it with your favorite salsa.  Delicious.  I cook something like this a couple days a week.  20 minutes start to finish and you're sitting there eating your dinner and watching Jeopardy at 7:00!  It helps that my stove is a little off balance so the olive oil for the onions and tortillas pools at the bottom of the pan - so you might want to adjust your stove so you can cook in this same method.

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