Eat your veggies – please!

I couldn’t figure out why my chicken souvlaki post got so many hits yesterday. Turns out Startcooking.com linked to my recipe. I was happy. Until I read the comment, “There are no vegetables in sight here…”

Then I was confused. I eat veggies. So I reread my post.

Hmmm. My recipe recommends you eat it with tzatziki, but surely you knew to add a side of Greek salad. Didn’t you?

I then checked my recipe archive. I’ve posted four (4) vegetable recipes and forty-four (44!?!) desserts. I’m flabbergasted. That’s an 11-to-1 ratio. Not exactly the balanced diet recommended by Canada’s Food Guide, mothers everywhere and people who care about their colons.

This calls for immediate action. While I rush out to shop for my daily five-to-ten, you whip up one of these healthy options.

• Jess Thomson (who spells her last name correctly!) makes Hot Tangy Beans over at Hogwash. They can be on your table in 10 minutes.
• If you can’t take the heat, Dana McCauley’s Tuscan Green Bean Salad might be more your style.
• Paris-based pastry chef, David Lebovitz, puts me to shame with a simple Marinated Tomato Salad.
• Pea lovers will drool over Cheryl Sternman Rule’s luminous Minty Peas.
• Julie O’Hara flirts with comfort food as she serves up a Healthy Bell Pepper and Zucchini Gratin.

Now if you’ll excuse me, there’s a head of broccoli somewhere with my name on it. And while I’m out, I must remember to pick up some butter for the birthday cake I’m making tomorrow, and pecans for the pralines and cream ice cream…