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Vegetable Recipes

As a mom, I have a major headache getting kids to eat their veggies. I've tried all sorts of ways to promote veggies. There was a Powerpuff Girls cartoon where the vegetable aliens invaded the earth and the Powerpuff Girls fought off the walking broccoli, carrots and other veggies by eating them up. There were too many aliens for the Powerpuff Girls to handle, so the kids around them helped out by eating up the vegetable aliens and saved the day.

Then there's Popeye who gets bullied by Bluto, but when he eats his spinach, he becomes so strong he can do anything. I'd play these cartoons, get them books like these, just to market vegetables to kids. I wrote a fantasy fiction book for tweens where the kids drink green strength tonic (some special vegetable juice) which gives them strength to fight off the baddies. That's more propoganda to get kids to eat veggies and drink vegetable juice.

All that convicing kids to eat veggies isn't going to work if the first bite of the spinach or whatever veggie they are eating puts them off. I've been cracking my head, cooking veggies in all sorts of ways to come up with veggie dishes they would love.

I bought a pack of frozen vegetables (peas, corn and carrots) and some minced pork and my kids loved the resulting dish so much they finished off the entire plate and asked me to cook that for them again.

Here's the recipe.

Pork and mixed veggies

Ingredients

• 100 g minced pork
• 1 rice bowl of mixed frozen veggies
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 3 tablespoons light soya sauce
• enough olive oil to coat the bottom of the frying pan
• 3 large cloves of garlic (the white and purple bulbs that are very fragrant)

Method

1. Mix the sugar and soya sauce in a bowl for the marinade. Add the meat and mix well. Cover bowl with plastic wrap. Let it stand for at least an hour. (I put it in the fridge from morning until evening). Let the veggies thaw.
2. Peel the garlic and pound or grind it.
3. Cover the bottom of the frying pan with olive oil
4. Add garlic to the olive oil
5. Heat the pan over the fire until the oil sizzles
6. Add the minced meat and stir fry until done.
7. Add in the veggies
8. Fry until veggies are cooked as well
9. Serve hot.

The marinated minced pork goes very well with most veggies. I even got the kids to eat their spinach by adding the marinated minced meat. Substitute the frozen veggies for blanched baby spinach and stir-fry until done.

Frying pans

GSI 10.75'''' Frying Pan
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GSI 8.75'''' Frying Pan - Forest Green
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