Veggies

Try this easy, one-dish meal and get a taste for Thai food that you can make at home.

Easy and colorful, this salad can also be enjoyed over several days while the meats soak up the flavors. Instead of making your own dressing, you can also use bottled Caesar dressing. Antipasto is traditionally the cold foods served before the pasta course at an Italian restaurant or home. This salad mixes it all up together – salami, pepperoni, peppers, artichoke hearts, cheese, olives and lettuce. –RR

The launch of Yum-o! as an organization was announced on my daytime television show. I taught a hard working mom this meal. For years, she and her husband had felt disappointment in their ability to get their daughters to eat a well-balanced diet. We cooked this rollover supper together: plenty of lean meat and vegetables in a rich pasta sauce over whole grain pasta, the leftovers of which became a simple soup and a spicy healthy chili. The mom felt so empowered that she cried – then I joined in. Good food can be good for your soul, too. Cook this recipe one night and serve with a green salad. Use the leftover sauce to make Turkey Tomato Soup and then Turkey Vegetable Chili the third night.

Use the Turkey Bolognese with Whole Wheat Spaghetti as the base for this chili. Better yet, eat the Bolognese one night and use the leftovers to make the Turkey Tomato Soup for your kids’ lunch box and the rest to make the chili!

Edamame are Japanese soybeans and can be found in the frozen foods section of your grocery store. This salad is really easy to make and you can eat it as a side dish or a main salad over mixed greens.

We loved the name of this cool sammy that Holly sent us. It’s super easy to make and a filling lunch box treat.

This pasta recipe was sent to us by Debby and her daughter, Megan. Little Meg helps with the chopping and grating of veggies as well as during clean up time, too – what a great kid!

Jessica and her family love taco night because everyone helps out and everyone gets to make their own taco. This recipe can be made by the whole family at once!

Nina is only 13 years old, but she sent us this luscious recipe that she loves to make with her dad. It’s a full meal!

This salad uses summer veggies but can also be made all year round; if you can’t find asparagus, use steamed broccoli instead. This makes a great side dish for a barbecue, or a main dish with some crusty bread and a tomato salad. Rosemary adds, "My four-year-old helps me make this by sampling the asparagus and pine nuts and stirring everything together when done."

You’ll look forward to having this wrap for lunch all morning long! Ask your grown-up helper (GH) to help you by preparing the instant rice, maybe while they make their morning coffee.

Cacciatore is the real way to spell the name of this stew. It’s the Italian word for "hunter." Chicken Cacciatore is made with wild mushrooms and strong flavors. It is hearty, so it would keep a hunter full for a long hunt. This stew uses some of the same ingredients and flavors of the original dish, but it’s even easier to make. Everyone in Rachael’s family really loves this recipe!

Who said salad had to be just lettuce? This recipe goes really well with Chicken Catch-A-Tory Ravioli Stew!

If a fussy eater in your family wants to know, "What’s in this?" just say, "Worms and eyeballs – hungry?" This tasty meal makes any day seem as spooky as Halloween night! Boo!

My sister Maria makes this dish in memory of our Grandma Betar’s cooking. As children, we loved Grandma Betar and her wonderful Middle Eastern cooking.