Roasting Fruits and Vegetables
7 November 2007 by
Jean Johnson
SAD, the Standard American Diet, relies almost exclusively on low calorie salad veggies like lettuce, tomatoes, and cukes--relegating things like winter squash for pumpkin pies and roots like turnips for jokes.
As this image shows, though, once you've oiled up some wedges of stick-to-your-ribs winter squash and a quartered rutabaga, rubbing ...
Posted in Appetizers, Fall, Innocent Sweets, Recipes, Roasting Fruits and Vegetables, Seasonal, Sides, Thrift, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Winter | 5 Comments »
26 October 2007 by
Jean Johnson
We all stood around the delicata wondering just what we'd do with it. I, at least, knew it as a winter squash that could be baked and scooped out for just plain eating or incorporation into all manner of things. But after I got my quota home and checked the ...
Posted in Fall, Kitchen Garden Thoughts, Roasting Fruits and Vegetables, Seasonal, Sides, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Winter | 2 Comments »
16 October 2007 by
Jean Johnson
If you're ever invited to eat in Hopiland and want to impress your hostess, take her some fresh chile. When I lived in the Hopi village of Sipaulovi it was all about cooking. And in the mornings plates of roasted chiles would appear centermost in the table for enjoying along ...
Posted in Culti-Multi Food, Fall, Family, Friends, & Love, Flavor, Roasting Fruits and Vegetables, Seasonal, Sides, Summer, Thrift, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian | Add a Comment »
1 October 2007 by
Jean Johnson
I'm half Norwegian, and we love cold salmon and cucumbers. Still, when fall starts to bluster, there's nothing like chowder.I made the one pictured just for myself out of fish left over from roasted salmon.
Salmon Chowder
Cooking Beyond Measure, p. 108
This takes all of five minutes if you have some roasted ...
Posted in Bioethics & Sustainability, Culti-Multi Food, Fall, Fish, Getting on a Roll, Lunches, Roasting Fruits and Vegetables, Soups, Ultrafast, Vegetables, Whole Grains, Winter | Add a Comment »
8 September 2007 by
Jean Johnson
If you are trying to kick the white crystal--as in sugar--you'll find all the jammy goodness a sweets junkie could want in roasted Italian prune plums.
Like the tomatoes and summer squashes in the previous post, I did my plums on 300 degrees in an oiled pan for a couple hours.
They ...
Posted in Fall, Fruit, Getting on a Roll, Innocent Sweets, Putting Up Food, Roasting Fruits and Vegetables | 1 Comment »
7 September 2007 by
Jean Johnson
The other evening while out on my bike I ran into friends who mentioned a neighbor was roasting tomatoes. It isn't as though roasting veggies isn't in my repertoire, but with the weather being so hot lately, the thought of heating an oven has not presented itself. But serendipity. Recent ...
Posted in Culti-Multi Food, Fall, Putting Up Food, Roasting Fruits and Vegetables, Ultrafast, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian | 2 Comments »
