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Roasted Veg

This is an awesomely flexible dinner. You basically chop everything up, douse it in oil and some salt, pepper or whichever spices you're in the mood for (or grab first!) and chuck it in the oven for an hour or so.

Main
2 Potatos: diced ~8mm³
1 Parsnip: chopped in half longways then slice it longways also around 5mm thick.
1 Courgette: diced ~ 10mm³
As many mushrooms as you can handle: - I've got small button ones so I put them in whole.
An Onion or two: diced ~ 15mm³ (then break them up a little to add some variety)
A yellow pepper: Don't bother chopping the pepper, just tear it open, remove the seeds and rip it into several large pieces.
2 pita breads torn into strips.

Before the potatos and going in the oven

Pre heat the oven to Gas Mark 6.

The only thing which takes some practice is how long things take to cook, the smaller you chop them the quicker they will cook. So you want to make the slowest-cooking things smallest. In this particular mix the potatos take far longer to cook than anything else, so chop them first. Put them in a bowl (with a dollop of margarine and a little garlic powder/puree if you fancy) and microwave them for 5 minutes to give them a heaad start.

Don't try and do cut everything on the same chopping board. 

Meanwhile chop everything else, add them to a deep baking tray and drizzle some olive oil on top. Add some salt and pepper and get your hands greasy mixing it all up and put it in the oven. Once the potatos are done in the microwave add them on top.

Keep an eye on it, check it every 20minutes or so and stir it around a little. It should take about an hour.


For the last 5 minutes or so, put the pita bread on top to warm up and soak up a little of the flavour. When it's done, spoon it in to a bowl and serve with the pita and a fork.

Salad

2 tomatos

2 stick of celery
3 iceburg lettuce leaves

Chop the tomatos as small as you dare,Salad scrungh up the lettuce leaves into a ball and "slice" them, so you end up with long bits of thing lettuce. Slice the Celery and throw it all in a bowl together. Sprinkle with some Zatar (or Thyme) a drizzle of olive oil.

Spaghetti Mondays and Tinned Salads

2 Onions Halved and Sliced.
1 Parsnip quartered and sliced thing.
A hunk of broccoli, chopped into littler bits.
1 tin Black Eyes beans.

Put everything in a pan with enough water to cook some Spaghetti in. Boil for about 5/10 minutes and then add the Spaghetti. You want to time the Spaghetti to be done around the same time as the veg, which depends on how small you chop the veg and what kind of Spaghetti you have. If you'd rather be on the safe side, cook the veg a bit too long.

Every meal needs a salad, although since I've been away for the weekend the only fresh I have is some celery. So todays salad is thing sliced celery, with a tin of chopped green beans and a dash of the cumin-based spice my friend Nicole gave me.