Roasted Vegetables...

...or, I should say, roasted numminess!

So, lately I have been experimenting with eating more vegetables.

As I am sure I have mentioned before, my parents don't eat vegetables (well, except corn), so I grew up rarely ever eating them. As an adult, I have tried a few things with vegetables, but it's mostly been eating them at friend's houses and restaurants as I have been a bit gunshy with cooking them at home.

One thing that I have discovered recently has been the glories of roasting vegetables. I never used the oven much in cooking until recently, but since I have, I have really enjoyed the way things carmelize in there. I have mostly only done this with carrots so far, but tonight I decided to try roasting broccoli.

I was inspired by this recipe by Rachael Ray, but also from some googling where I found this recipe (which has some good reference pictures).

So, being home alone tonight, I decided it would be a perfect night to try the food experiment of roasting broccoli (especially since justben doesn't eat broccoli).

I did and it was oh-my-goodness good!

Here is what I made (roughly):
( Roasted Broccoli Recipe )

And while I am at it, since I was chatting about it last night with wheezinggirl and mtn_hermit and they wanted a recipe, here is my recipe for roasted carrots:

( Roasted Carrot Recipe (Baked Carrot Fries) )

Happy roasting! :)