Three Easy Vegetables

Three easy vegetables recipes for weeknight suppers, Roasted Cauliflower, Lemon Asparagus and Honey Carrots, each one cooked with a different method. ~ Skip Straight to the Recipes ~ ~ Roasted Cauliflower ~ ~ Honey Carrots ~ ~ Lemon Asparagus ~ Buttering Up for Vegetables My mom was a young mother during the 1960s. In many ways, she was a woman before her time. Her Kitchen Parade columns are now yellow and tattered. But a frequent topic, teenage nutrition, would fit the agenda of any contemporary food magazine. Long before food pyramids and obesity crises, Mom's meals included one, two or even three vegetables. And they were all delicious. No wonder! Each one was topped with a hefty pat of butter! My own vegetable style is purist: savor vegetables for their own subtle flavors without adornment or distraction from butter or sugar. But if a bit of butter or sugar is encouragement enough for kids to try and enjoy vegetables, it’s a start, right? With that in mi