baked vegetables with garlic leeks with prawns and cashew nuts mango with pistachio stuffed pumpkins vegetable stir fry artichokes artichoke hearts with garlic, olive oil and      parsley artichokes stuffed with lemongarlic breadcrumbs baby artichokes provencal asparagus baked asparagus beans & peas chickpeas with tamarind sauce peas with honey-soy salmon broccoli baked broccoli with garlic broccoli leaves with garlic & chili carrots marinated carrots whole carrots with marsala wine cauliflower & cabbage cauliflower-broccoli-salmon-tureen roasted cauliflower with garlic savoy cabbage with morels stir-fried chestnuts with chinese cabbage potatoes mashed potatoes with garlic purple potatoes with caramelized onions &          shiitake mushrooms potato, onion, tomato gratin roasted la ratte potatoes with dried figs & thyme spinach spinach with pine nuts The Cauliflower I wanted to be a cauliflower, all brains and ears, thinking on the origin of gardens and the divinity of him who carefully binds my leaves. With my blind roots touched by the songs of the worms, and my rough throat throbbing with strange, vegetable sounds, perhaps I'd feel the parting stroke of a butterfly's wing ... Not like my cousins, the cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded, see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them. John Haines vegetables I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I’m a vegetarian because I hate plants. Whitney Brown A Vegetation to Be Read by the Parsnip  Aubergine aubergine Lettuce pray for the marrow For no one radishes the end We have all cucumbered our unworthy chives With foul swedes It ill beetroots us to publicly sprout pea For the endive of our fennels None escapes the cabbage of thyme Even the wisest sage comes to a spinach Celery celery I say unto you This is the cauliflower When salsifiers all Artichoke and kale. B.C. Leale