Ratatouille

"Oh yeah, that Disney movie about the rat that wants to cook" is what your first thought was. However, I am talking about the French dish in which the rat was named...At least I assume that was his name, as I haven't seen the movie yet, and thus will probably be corrected on my pronunciation of it. So, Ratatouille is a dish of colorful nutritious fall vegetables cooked in a tomato herb sauce. And when I heard that if you just double the amount of vegetables you're eating, whatever that amount is, the result will be about 9 lbs of weight loss per year, I thought I might just give it a try. So I made it, adding seasoned chicken to the bottom of the baking dish to make a complete meal, baked it for 90 minutes (The recipe calls for 2 full hours), and it was suprisingly good. What's even better is that the leftovers tasted even better, as the flavors had time to really soak in (I was a little more generous with the spices that the recipe calls for, too). So, if you want a healthy, yummy meal to feed your family tonight, her is a link to the recipe I used, just click on Ratatouille. http://www.zonya.com/healthy_recipes.html