I've been wanting to make a list of vegetables and quick side-dishes featuring each that my husband will eat. With luck, 18-month old DS will eventually learn to eat most of them as well. It's not exactly financial, but why not keep it in my blog? This is definitely a work-in-progress, and I hope to come back and update it whenever I a new dish is a hit. I started with a list of vegetables from Wikipedia, and shortened it somewhat by deleting ones I didn't think I'd find in the local and ethnic grocery stores.

Western cabbage family
Broccoli -- steamed, add Lee Kum Kee stir fry sauce
Brussels sprout
Cabbage -- TBD, looking for a healthy cole slaw recipe
Cauliflower -- TBD, need something cheesy
Kale
Rapini (Broccoli Rabe) -- TBD, maybe wilted with oyster sauce
Red cabbage

Asian cabbage family
Kai-lan
Bok choy
Komatsuna
Mizuna greens
Oriental mustard

Leafy and salad vegetables
Arugula
Cress
Endive
Epazote
Iceplant -- It's all over the place as a groundcover in southern CA. I had no idea the fruits are edible!
Lettuce -- salad with balsalmic dressing
New Zealand Spinach
Orache (French Spinach)
Radicchio
Spinach
Swiss chard
Watercress
Water spinach


Fruiting and flowering vegetables
Armenian cucumber (Snake cucumber)
Eggplant
Avocado -- homemade guacomole
Bitter melon
Chayote (Choko)
Chile pepper
Cucumber
Globe Artichoke
Luffa (Chinese Okra)
Sweetcorn -- boiled corn-on-the-cob style
Sweet pepper (Bell pepper)
Summer squash -- see list below
Tomato -- bruschetta, homemade pasta sauce
Tomatillo
Winter melon (Fuzzy melon)
Winter squash -- see list below

Summer squashes
Button squash
Yellow crookneck squash
Zucchini -- Sesame Parmesean Zucchini (see recipe:

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Sesame-Parmesan-Zucchini/Detail...

Winter squashes
Acorn
Butternut -- soup
Delicata -- soup
Hubbard
Kobacha
Spaghetti squash -- microwave and serve with marinara sauce from TJ's
Pumpkin

Podded vegetables
Black-eyed pea
Black lentil (Urad bean)
Chickpea -- store-bought hummus
Fava bean
Green bean -- steamed in microwave and tossed with balsalmic vinegarette
Guar
Lentil
Lima bean
Moth bean
Mung dal
Navy bean
Okra
Pea
Peanut
Runner bean
Soybean
Yardlong bean (snake bean)

Bulb and stem vegetables
Asparagus -- steamed in microwave and tossed with balsalmic vinegarette
Celeriac
Celery
Florence fennel
Garlic
Leek -- soup
Onion
Rhubarb
Shallot
Wild leek

Root and tuberous vegetables
Bamboo shoot
Beetroot
Carrot
Cassava
Chinese artichoke
Daikon radish
Ginger
Jerusalem artichoke
Jícama
Parsnip
Radish
Rutabaga
Taro
Turnip
Water chestnut
Yacón
Yam (sweet potato) -- buy sliced "fries", bake, season with BBQ or cajun spice