Veggieland

I decided to write one huge post with lots and lots of recipes and photos from my various veggie creations. So grab a comfy seat on the couch and dig into a big pile of...

Roasted Root Vegetables

I received a crazy vegetable in the share: celeriac. What does one do with celeriac? Well, after extensive allrecipes.com research I decided the easiest thing was to combine it with parsnips, carrots, and potatoes and roast the whole pile in the oven. So I chopped up two carrots, two parsnips, five small potatoes, and the celeriac and spread them out in a 9x13 baking dish. Then I chopped up about 4 tablespoons of butter into small pats and randomly placed them in among the veggies. Finally, I sprinkled a tablespoon of freshly chopped sage over top with a pinch of oregano.

Bake at 425, stirring everything up a few times to make sure the butter coats everything. I think it took about 40 minutes total for everything to be nice and roasted. Turns out I don't really like celeriac but it smelled awesome in the kitchen and the potatoes were excellent.

Fresh Salad with Watermelon Radish

Another interesting discovery was the watermelon radish. When I cut it open it was such a vibrant pink color on the inside - a perfect watermelon! But I had no idea what to do with it so I decided to chop it up and sprinkle it into my salad. I washed the lettuce from the share and chopped it up, mixed in tomatoes and green peppers I got from the store, and added the radish.

Unfortunately, I don't like radish very much. But I covered it in salad dressing to make it tolerable. What do I do with the three other radishes???

Ethiopian Cabbage

After discussing with the roommates I decided on an Ethiopian dish listed on allrecipes.com for the head of cabbage. I had everything except the potatoes so I walked over to the store in a 60 degree late-November evening and picked up five small red potatoes. It was a pretty painless recipe, mostly just waiting for everything to cook through, and the spice combination of turmeric and cumin was delicious! I might even be convinced to buy more cabbage...

White Bean Soup with Spinach and Leeks

This was the first recipe made from my veggie pile. It's a simple soup involving cannelini beans, spinach leaves, leeks, and vegetable broth. I threw everything into the slow cooker and set it to work while I was out on Thursday. It's a little bland but adding parmesan really helped.

...stay posted - there is more to come....