I'm Not a Player, I Just Roast A Lot
While I am admittedly a terrible food photographer, I am a great vegetable roaster. For my money, it's one of the easiest and most delicious ways to cook vegetables. Case in point: the above dinner featuring roasted asparagus and lentil pilaf (out of a box) took me all of 10 minutes to make. And it was healthy and delicious - the perfect way to eat your leafy greens.
I am crazy about asparagus in any form (even the mushy canned stuff tastes delicious to me), but it is food of the gods when roasted. Here's all you have to do:- Preheat your oven to 450-ish degrees
- Rinse your asparagus and break off the ends at their natural snapping point - usually about an inch or so from the bottom
- Put them in a roasting pan and season them with olive oil (maybe a couple of teaspoons), salt and pepper
- Cook them for 8 to 10 minutes - the frilly tops and stalk will start to get brown and caramelized
- Serve hot out of the oven with a little splash of lemon juice, if you've got it
That's it! I've roasted many other veggies - squash, cauliflower, brussell sprouts, broccoli, sweet potato fries - and they all turn out perfectly delicious. My mom claims that you can use frozen asparagus for this roasting recipe and it works just as well.
Now, a question: what are people making for dinner tonight? This being Grey's Anatomy evening, I want to hear y'all's take on a quick, homey dinner that can be whipped up in time for the show....
posted by ATP at 8:04 AM
2 Comments:
I'm on the dregs of what's left in my fridge. I haven't gone grocery shopping because I'm out of town this weekend . . . so I think it's frozen pizza (Amy's Organic, though) for me.
Also, one of my favorite ways to make asparagus is the following: trim it, salt it
toss it into a saute pan with a few teaspoons of olive oil
add half a cup of fresh-squeeze orange juice
cover loosely and cook for eight or so minutes
remove it from the pan when crisp-tender
grate orange zest, to taste, over it and toss.
ooh, that sounds so good - i'll have to try it. and amen to amy's frozen products. i love just about everything she churns out of her kitchen. ok, grey's is back on - gotta go. i know where my priorities are!
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