Here's what I hate about cooking with fresh vegetables!

It's jsut that vegetables take so much work. chopping and cutting, rinsing etc. I think fresh veggies are really good for you,but dealing with the work gets on my nerves. I dont eat them as much as I should for that reason.

to keep your fresh veggies from cooking down like that' dont grill, steam them in the microwave oven for three minutes and they will be tender crisp and not melted down. otherwise you just get mush. You can also cook them on top the stove with very little water, in the microwave do not add any water at all. a lot of water makes veggies mush, and also you lose a lot of the vitamins that way.Its very easy to overcook veggies but you do not need to do that.

I have noticed when I have cooked on my George Forman grill that almost anything seems to shrink up. Although I do like grilling meat on it since it is healther that way. I have never tried vegtables yet. After reading this I am not sure if I want to.

Freh vegetables are really good! but pass for me! I don't cook really...I always eat to the deli where I work.

Hi Beautyqueen, no none, my daughters favourite is cabbage and they would eat just a plate of that if I dished it up for them. I tend to just cook for enough time for the veg to all still be crunchy and have never experienced i cooking down too much. Ellie :D

We love fresh vegetables. I usually steam them in a pot on the stove. But tonight, I cut the ends off a butternut squash, split it in half, put it in a microwave dish with a couple spoons of water,salt and peppered it, and then hit fresh vegetables on my microwave. It automatically cooked it until it was done.It was delicious! And, the broccoli you had with your pork chops sounds great. We love it! And,we also had the pork chops with our meal tonight.

so i dont know that but i'm like a cook a fr4esh rice whith fresh vegetable and chees but in my home...... bye myryam...... you are hot???? in italy 30 - 35 °

If they're wilting that much, I would try not cooking them so long. I like them with a little bit of crunch left, that way, they shouldn't shrink so much.

I don't ever cook fresh vegetables. They are too much extra work. I use frozen (or canned every once in a while) when I want cooked veggies. When I serve fresh veggies, I always just serve them raw. I used to steam them for Elliott, before he was big enough to eat them raw, but now he likes them raw, so that is the way my whole family eats them.

Yum. I got a little hungry reading this. Even though I'm still full from my dinner. I notice that you use your George Foreman grill quite alot. I have used one at my sisters house before and it seemed to me to be more trouble than it was worth. Maybe I was doing something wrong. It definitely took longer than I am used to grills taking to cook the food. My pet peeve about cooking with fresh veggies is that I don't think they taste well as leftovers. Frozen veggies do, but fresh veggies I just throw away if we don't eat them all. The trade off is that we love fresh veggies so much that we usually always eat them up when I cook them.

I usually steam vegetables; they keep their color and don't cook down to mush. Sometimes I use the microwave. I don't have a steamer anymore, so I just use a big pot and my collander. Works great! lol I hate overcooked vegetables, though. The other night I did roast some vegetables in the oven; I had some potatoes, onions and carrots. I just drizzled them with a little canola oil (very little), put them on a pan and roasted them. They were wonderful, especially the carrots.

Spinach is one of the worst. You can cram a pan full of it and when you are done cooking it down a little it looks like there is nothing there.

i dont generally cook fresh veggies to the point of them being near to nothing.. and prefer to have them be rather crisp.. which only takes a minute or two specially on a grill. not knowing exactly how large or what kind of squash you cooked.. i cant say if you actually cooked plenty of it or not (ie if you only cooked one summer squash.. they are very small really, and shouldnt be considered more than enough for just one person) one onion and ten baby carrots.. is really just barely a single serving. you also didnt mention just how many people you were cooking for..? but no.. ive never had an issue with how fresh veggies turn out, fact i prefer them over anything else because you can cook them to yer own pesonal specifications rather than just popping the top off of a can and reheating a factory processed food, which is generally overcooked even before you reheat it.

I have to buy a lot of fresh veggies because like what happened to you - when you grill or steam fresh, they cook down. This isn't altogether a bad thing, but when everybody expects to get at least a cup of vegetables, you have to buy like 2 lbs per meal lol! This means I have to buy 4 lbs of asparagus, 8 tomatoes, 4 lbs of broccoli, 2 lbs of carrots, 8 ears of corn, and 10 lbs of potatoes. I have another issue with fresh - sometimes they don't last the week in the fridge, other times they do! I never know, so sometimes I end up having to throw out tomatoes or a melon or berries, or asparagus I forgot was in the crisper. It truly depends where I bought the produce, when I go to some of the cheaper grocery places, I try to only buy quantities that we'll eat within a couple days because otherwise all of it starts going bad.

Oh my I have not cooked with my george grill for a while and you actually reminded me that I even own one. That is quite funny how I bought one but forget to use it as I stash it away in a cupboard I hardly open so forget that it is even there. I do like to cook on it though. Yummy I can not wait to use it next, I never actually tried using it for vegies so that is new to me. I usually just use it for the meat. However thanks for the tip on your experience with the vegetables and the grill.

We're actually quite the opposite! I like my veggies overcooked and soggy. Well not that soggy that it turns to mush; but I really do prefer soft over crunchy veggies. My pet peeve when cooking fresh vegetables though is that I need to wash and cut them. Spinach and other leafy vegetables are just some of the most difficult to wash because I do it by leaf! SO most of the time I but the pre-washed and bagged vegetables for convenience. :)