.Hi y’all!

This video shows you one of my family’s all time most requested dish…roasted veggies. I mix up the veggie combos to reflect the season, what I have growing in the garden and how I want to use the veggies once they are cooked. Check out below the video for more ways to use this basic recipe in your home. Enjoy!

Here are just a couple of ways you could use these veggies:

-Add some “cream of” whatever soup you like with milk and stir it right into the roasting pan of already roasted veg and top with plops of biscuit dough (we love the Red Lobster Cheddar Bay Biscuit in a box!) and bake until the biscuits are brown.

-Use in soups instead of raw or boiled veg. The flavor is so intense!

-Add into omelets. If you keep the veg separated as you roast them, you could set up a Sunday Brunch omelet station and have your family/guests choose what roasted veg to add to their omelet.

-Use the roasted veg in salads. My-oh-my roasted butternut squash is especially good on a salad with added pecans.

-Cook up some couscous and top it with a big ‘ole pile of roasted veg. You can eat this as a main dinner or as a side dish.

Feel free to share in the comments some ideas on how you and your family enjoys some roasted veggies!

Years ago when we lived in upstate Pennsylvania, Charles and I attended a lovely UU fellowship in Big Flats, NY. There we met all kinds of cool folks and we really enjoyed their company. The church sponsored frequent pot luck lunches after service and we were introduced to many delicious new foods. This recipe that I make A LOT came from two church members, Karen and Tom. This is one of two recipes that I get asked for the most. The other is my own Veggie Chili.

*Notes: You can easily half the amounts of oil and sugar to make it less soupy, or drain some off after it’s sat in the ‘fridge overnight. This stuff goes great on chips, in tacos, topping off an avocado or a veggie hot dog! Or like Charles does, just eat it right out of the dad gum bowl!

A number of years ago I gave into an impulse while shopping at Walmart.  Not really anything new, but it turned out to be a fantastic purchase.  I got a bright red, electric ice cream maker when they were running a summer sale on them.  I got a couple of bags of rock salt to go along with it so I’d be ready to make ice cream the moment I got home.  And, boy oh boy, did I make some ice cream!  I experimented with base recipes and then worked on adding in different ingredients. We didn’t have any fosters with us when I first got my beautiful red machine, but Charles was a very willing test subject for my different variations on homemade ice cream.

The below is my very favorite base recipe.  It is thick, rich and custardy.  Just lovely!  And before you read the recipe, let me tell you that it has BOTH half and half and heavy cream. Diet ice cream this aint! It is great plain, but when I channeled my inner Ben & Jerry, I added caramelized bananas, pecans and crushed heath bars.  Oh.  My.  Goodness!  That day we devoured some fabulous ice cream!

Enjoy.