In my family (meaning the parents and various aunts and uncles) the side dishes for holiday meals involve lots of cream or butter or cheese. Usually all three. This means the vegetables, including, but not limited to, green beans, broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, onions, potatoes and turnips, are boiled, cloaked with cream and butter, and obscured by bread crumbs, which in turn are sprinkled with cheese. Or paprika. My mom is very big on contrast, which means that light food is always sprinkled with paprika and dark food is sprinkled with cheese. This winds up giving the holiday table a kind of bipolar look, which may have something to do with the way I am today. But I digress. This recipe involves neither cream nor butter nor cheese, and it tastes good, too. —wssmom
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