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Warm broccoli salad? Yes please!

VEGGIES

It happened by accident, as some of the best kitchen discoveries do. And it started with yet another attempt to find a way to make a green vegetable appealing to our teenage son.

His relationship with vegetables isn’t exactly love/hate; it’s more should/doesn’t. He knows he should eat them, he just doesn’t love them, so it’s easy to skip in favour of, well, usually wings and fries. (Potatoes are one vegetable he can and does get behind, naturally.)

I used to think I could make just about

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