One of my favourite blogging-topics is cooking, especially if it's related to a healthy lifestyle, and even better if I can share something that would spare you some time in the kitchen!
Yes, I guess you know I'd like to talk about the oven, this incredible machine! For years I thought (as many people) that the only things you could get from an oven are creamy and sweet cakes full of sugar, chocolate muffins, fetty pizzas, delicious but rich-in-calories quiches (at Emma's place), cheesy gratin pasta, etc etc etc... I couldn't be more mistaken!
Since I started my healthier cooking habits, and adding vegetables to all my meals, the oven has become my closest friend in the kitchen! (well just after Eva, my flatmate!). I didn't have to buy a book "oven recipes for singles" or anything like that! What I do is soooo simple, you might think I'm wasting blog space! I preheat the oven, I put 2 drops of olive oil on an oven dish, and I just put vegetables on it! No preparation, just peppers, eggplants, onions, tomatos, zucchinis... Sometimes I don't even cut them into pieces! I let them roast for 30-40minutes and they are done! I love them with a little bit of salt, olive oil and rosemary, on a slice of bread. When I don't finish everything, I boil some rice or quinoa and I add the veggies to it, for my lunch on the next day. Can you think of something healthier??? It's delicious and you can watch TV, have a shower, play with your dog, while preparing the dinner!
My friend Olga, who also shares this veggie-roasting obsession, brought me last week a new veggetable/ root/ thing, absolutely new for me: topinambur. Do you know what it is? It looks like something between a potato and ginger, and after being roasted it tastes like an artichoke! No joking! I love it!
And if you want healthy snacks, you can make chips! The sweet potato chips are my favourite, you just have to cut them into thin slices and put them on an oven tray. The oven shouldn't be too hot, under 100 degrees, and it will take a couple of hours, but again you can leave it there and do something else.
I hope I could help you find another healthy dinner option, I know it's sometimes difficult! Enjoy!
Olga here....So I just wanted to shed more light on this mysterious topinambur. It is also commonly known as the Jerusalem Artichoke (kinda like what aubergine is to eggplant)...or another alternative is the "earth apple". Essentially all it is, is the tuber of a particular sunflower species which heralds from north America. When you cut it, it has the crunchy consistency almost of ginger... Mind you, when roasted, it has a taste which bears an uncanny resemblance to an artichoke! I am absolutely and utterly addicted to this unassumingly looking yet insanely delicious root-vegetable! <3
AntwortenLöschenYummm!!! I just baked some veggies in the oven yesterday... same technique: olive oil, salt and rosemary... best!!!
AntwortenLöschenHi!!!!
AntwortenLöschenthis amazing, undiscovered and full of surprises friend, the oven! :P
I am so childish, and I still think vegetables are boring, disgusting, tasteless, and many other negative adjectives...Though I've found a way to put some of them in my life, something you mention in your post: the chips! Only I can spare more time to your readers...Buy a plastic thing called "Mastrad" (if I remember well...) that allows you to do the typical chips, the ones you do in the oven, but in the microwave and in only 3 minutes! :)
anyway,thanks 4 the post! :)
by the way, I'm thinking of starting a blog...
t'estimo guapa!!!