Lekue Cooking Mesh makes boiling veggies fun again

You could try it in reverse? Take the steamer part to the second-hand shop and fill in the gaps around it.

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Umm, those are Baby Cabbages!
(Mom had to appeal to my inner barbarian to get me to eat my veggies as a kid.)

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Where does one find these lids that actually fit on a given pan?

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I too microwaved my vegetables for thirty years. Then somebody fed me steamed broccoli. Now I steam everything.

The only veg I ever boil is lima beans, and as you may imagine, I don’t do that very often. But when I do, pouring the result into a colander is pretty easy.

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ROASTED. Big difference. You want them to caramelize along the edges.

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I have in fact done just that on a beach in Hawai’i. In fact, I used that sucker to make a particularly wide range of foods:

Lentil soup with watercress and papaya
Lentil soup with potato
Sweet potato and peanut soup
Onigiri
Curry squash and rice
Chili
Flatbread
Curry tofu and chickpea
Cheesy potato soup
Cream of potato
Cream of asparagus
Fettucini alfredo with asparagus
Garlic bread
Tacos
Black beans and rice
More pancakes
Blackeyed pea soup
Sugar cookies
Tea
Stir fry with saimin noodle

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