Veggie turkey

When I went shopping for all things Thanksgiving a couple of days ago, little did I know what all the requests—very specific requests—for vegetables in an assortment of colors had meant. And, truth be told, I was too busy to ask. So when the athletes, the real ones and the wannabes, among the guests adjourned for the Annual Football Game—we play, not watch—I had, by then, stopped thinking about the reason that my grocery list included red-leafed lettuce; red, orange, yellow, and green peppers; one small yellow zucchini; a medium cucumber; packages of carrots, celery, and cherry tomatoes; and the thinnest asparagus spears I could locate. While we worked up a sweat outdoors, my wife and her crew of kitchen wizards worked up a veggie miracle in the kitchen. Gobble, gobble... and bon, bon appetit.