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How to Roast Carrots

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How to Roast Carrotshow to roast carrots

I’m a huge fan of roasted veggies!  Especially carrots.  My CSA delivers carrots throughout the year!  I never really considered carrots a “winter” vegetable but rather a late summer veggie.  

Why?

  1. It’s fast.
  2. I can’t really mess it up.
  3. Roasted veggies can be used in loads of different ways.
  4. A deeper flavor.
  5. After roasting I have 5 days to use them!
  6. A great make ahead meal

(If you are just dying of curiosity about how to keep carrots for months without them going bad . . . leave a note in the comments and I’ll find that article for you and reply back in the comments–that way everyone can know!)

How to Roast?roasted organic carrots

I have an awesome roasting pan from Williams Sonoma–the bottom prevents the veggies from sticking 

AND

it has raised sides so the veggies don’t “jump off” when I’m putting the pan in and out of the oven.

  • wash the carrots
  • if carrots aren’t organic you should peel them–I can’t remember where I read this–but you can Google it.
  • cut if you desire.  I leave my carrots whole.
  • I add a touch of olive oil or I toss the carrots in water (sometimes if time is tight–I wrap them in foil, roast for the time and shut off the oven and leave the carrots in the oven, wrapped in foil.)
  • roast for 20 minutes at 450 degrees.  Of course check them to make sure they are cooked the way you want.

What do I do with my roasted carrots?

  • mash them.
  • add them to salads.
  • add to soup.
  • slice length wise and put them on a yummy sandwich.
  • add to pasta with spinach and roasted pine nuts.
  • add to caramelized onions and rice
  • reheat with a bit of honey and onions

[Tweet “#veganRenee just made roasting carrots seem WAY TO EASY, I gotta try this! “]

Roasted carrots are a INSANELY simple way to eat with L.O.V.E.

When we eat with L.O.V.E. we live love.

Roasted Brussel Sprout-Cranberry-Pecan Salad

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Roasted Amazing!

This could not have been more simple!  Three ingredients–Brussel Sprout, sweet and tart cranberry and the crunchy pecan.

I placed cranberries, Brussel sprouts and pecans on a roasting sheet.

Roast at 400 degrees for 20 minutes.  Let it cool.  Toss in fig vinaigrette.  

It was incredible warm . . . an cold.  

For another great BS roasted recipe, go here.

[Tweet “I am going to make this salad for Thanksgiving! Yum.”]

Roasted Brussel Sprout Cranberry Pecan Salad

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Simply Amazing Vegan Brussels Sprouts

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Who even eats Brussel Sprouts?bspanko

I don’t think that I have ever eaten a brussels sprout on purpose.  No lie.  We never grew them growing up.  I remember cooking them at Robby’s Ice House but the smell was enough to cure my curiosity on tasting them.  I was sure that anything that smelled that bad . . . I could live without eating.

Last Week Everything Changed 

I bought a salad mix.  On Instagram I posted a few of the salads kits I bought to try out different blends.  What I didn’t realize was the blend of fresh kale and fresh Brussels sprouts would be a prepared mix.  It was awful.  Since I post my successes and my failures, one of my oldest friends Dana, said she loved them.  That made me think–why does she love them and I hate them.

Trying Something New!

I decided to try my hand at roasting them.  I genuinely love to roast veggies (and I’m kind of good at it) my thinking was I would try making them two different ways.  One was simple roasting with sea salt.  The other was sea salt, pepper AND panko break crumbs.  I cooked 1/2 pound one way and 1/2 the other.  

Something amazing happened

They were awesome.  I nibbled on them all day, my homeschooled kids nibbled on them and when my away school kids came home–the pan was empty.  They passed the kid test.  Not one grain of salt was left on the plate.

Go Ahead, You do it!

[Tweet “I dare you to try my BS recipe! #vegetarian #vegan #roasted”]

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Vegan?  Really?

I feel the need to say this is a vegan recipe–you could add parmesan cheese, bacon bits, coat them in an egg wash and bread them . . . but I think vegan, simple is best for me.  (But if I had to get my husband to eat them–I would need to add the bacon bits and the parmesan cheese.)  

Go out now and buy a bag of BS and cook them up.  Let me know how it works for you.