I am trying to align a table with variable lengths of #ask output.

{| !'''Articles''' !'''Recipes''' |- |width="300" valign="top"| {{#ask:[[Category:Long article]] [[ArticleRelatedCategory::Snow cream]] |Default=No articles found so far |format=broadtable }} || {{#ask:[[Category:Recipe]] [[RecipeCategorySub::Snow Cream]] |?RecipeDate=Known since |?RecipeSource=Published in/by |format=broadtable }} |}

The first column get much fewer results than the second. Turning the columns around (so that articles is the second one) is more logical but then valign="top" doesn't produce aligned columns. Is there a way of aligning the second column? Adding "valign="top"| " to the second column (after "||") only produces the text valign="op" without doing any aligning.