The common denominator of all the recipes you folks have listed is "what to put on the veggies to make them taste good." I see a trend.

It's more of a what to put on veggies to make them taste even better thing. I will note that most meats are also improved with a dash of seasoning.

One thing that makes me sad is that raw veggies don't taste good to me or agree with my stomach at the moment. I love raw veggies, and not being able to eat them cuts down on my intake something awful.

Now go eat something green before I sprinkle spiders on your meat supply.

I grew up in farm country, I know what walks across my meat supply. Stop freaking out Jilli, ya big meanie.

Thomash and Juliana are unreasonably perky.

My apologies. Direct!boss just admitted that she went all control-freaky this morning and didn't give me enough of a chance to correct a problem. I'm all giddy from the unexpected validation. I'll be more gloomy from now on, I promise.

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No! No gloom! It's March! There's way enough gloom to go around! Juliana, you should know this! You are also from a cold place! (Excessive usage of exclamation marks. Apologies.)

I swear, people who don't live here don't understand how fragile we Northerners are in March. March is so evil. EVIL. And I don't mean in a "cute little puppet fangs" kind of way.

Ginger, lucky Braves just signed Tim Hudson to a three year extension. That's four years you've got him for now.

So stoked to be through with Feb, without major adversity.

Ginger, lucky Braves just signed Tim Hudson to a three year extension. That's four years you've got him for now.

Cool. I knew they were in negotiations today.

I like my veggies plain and smae with meat - but I also like them doctored up. and if you don't like 'em plain - don't eat them that way. But EAT them.

If you don't like veggies but want to eat them anyway you could make something like a chicken or turkey pot pie, with lots of veggies. They'd be smothered in gravey and a flakey crust.

I went to TJ's at lunch to look for non-tongue-hurty veggies. They had NO cauliflower. WTF? They had no actual sweet potatoes, as in, the tuber itself, but they had bags of peeled and diced sweet potatoes, which I bought, b/c I can just nuke them and mush them up with some butter.

I already had edamame at home.

And I bought chocolate-covered pretzels, because while I'm not PMS-ing in the sense of being cranky, I *am* craving chocolate and salt. In a big old way.

Also? Students selling band candy after school when teachers are weak and really hungry is just plain EVIL.

Kristin! Did you learn nothing from BTVS? Do NOT eat the band candy!