I haven’t made it a secret that I’m not a lover of veggies, but with the wisdom of age, I’ve come to realize that they are *probably* a necessary thing to include in my diet of bacon and candy if I want to pretend to be living a healthy life.
So I got to puttering around on the internet and came across Jessica Merchant’s How Sweet Eats blog and her suggestions for roasted vegetables. As a side note, looking at a blog called “How Sweet Eats” I think we can all agree that the last thing I should’ve walked away with was a veggie recipe. However, it checked all the right boxes. Easy to prepare? Yes! Quick to cook? Yes! Easily snackable? Totally! This was being made pronto, because for the love of God, my body apparently needs “nutrients”.
Since variety is the spice of life and of my food, I chose 4 different veggies and 4 different ways of seasoning them. Okay, okay, I actually just copy and pasted her suggestions into my oven. If SHE (as in the writer of the site called “HOW SWEET EATS”) likes them, I will too right? Anyways, it ended up being plain roasted bell peppers for me, smoked paprika and cauliflower, broccoli with garlic, and sweet potatoes with cinnamon. I popped them in the oven and crossed my fingers.
They were actually a really good snack! And a good side dish! And a good appetizer! And pretty much an all-round great dish! In a strange way too, all those different flavors seemed to complement each other as well.
I gotta give Jessica props. She got me to enjoy veggies without covering them in a crapload of Ranch dressing. That my friends, is quite a feat.
