It is fall and hence time to dig up a bunch of roots and stick ’em in the oven. I love to fill the oven with beets, potatoes, celery, bell peppers, pumpkin, onions, sweet potatoes, squash, eggplant etc.
It is everything it should be – apart from being very comforting, it it inexpensive, healthy and delicious! You can vary it ENDLESSLY and you can season it endlessly – I like to vary between garlic, poppyseeds, smoked salt, oregano, thyme or other fresh or dried herbs, curry, paprika (there’s a smoked kind too, it’s yummy!) – etc., etc..
So here’s a bunch of pictures of past oven-meals and how I got there:
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Hokkaido pumpkin! I love it! The meat is very firm and they are delicious. Look at that colour!
You wash it thoroughly and split it in half, remove the seeds (you can toast them and salt them and eat them too! – just be sure to remove as much of the gunk as possible!), slice them the size you like and toss them with a bit of oil and whatever seasoning you’d enjoy. You don’t have to peel them but you can. I quite like the skin.
You cut off the nub where the flower was and the top. I love those colours!
All scraped out and ready to be cut up.
Yuuhm!
Beets! Also lovely colours. Eaten raw, I don’t like them, they taste like dirt to me. But baked!! They contain lots of natural sugar so they caramelize very well.
Peel them and if you’re worried about getting pink hands, you can use gloves! They give off a lot of wonderful pink!
Ready to be cut into big “French Fries”.
But wait. Chinese garlic!!!
Celery root! You can basically use them the same way as potatoes except they are much healthier! They are the carb-free-diet-friendly choice.
Peel it and cut it up. (Do you sense the pattern?)
Baked celery and carrots.
A roasted chicken. I give it about 60-75 minutes, hot air, 200 degrees Celsius.
Here’s a buddy waiting to go in with his friends the eggplant and tomatoes.
Potatoes cut like this was a big thing in the 80’s. I still like it.
Yum!
The pink and orange veggies here are lovely the next day too.
Enjoy!
And let me know if I’ve totally overlooked something else to put in the oven!!
(And don’t say my head, that’s mean!)
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Pure yumminess! Lunch is suddenly very far away … :´(
I was going to cite this as “food porn” until half-way down when I saw the first chicken spread. Decided that some dolts might think me literally there and start talking about less-delicate matters having to do with the birds. We don’t need creeps stalking our fair Cinda blog. 😉
LOL.
looks delish you are a women of many talents i see! I want to try that pumpkin!
Thanks Shanna. Good to have you with us! Keeps the comments and “Likes” coming!
Hugs,
Cinda