Ode To New Veggies

I have been trying new veggies recently (please, hold the applause). The acorn squash is one, add yellow squash and jicima and you have the start of a nice list of newbies. As a result, I wanted to put together a tribute about this recent dive into the unknown to the tune of a popular and sentimental song that details how big of a deal this truly is.

O! Say can you see by the noon's early light

What so proudly I hailed at my lunch's last gleaming,

Whose bold zest and bright hue through the nutrition fight,

O'er the table I ate, were so gallantly pleasing?

And the empty plate's red glare, my love surging in air,

Gave proof through my lunch, that new veggies add flair;

O! Say does that taste-spangled veggie yet save,

O'er the land of delight and the home of the brave.