Roasted Squashes and Peppers

VegCookbookClub December recipes from Nava Atlas-Vegan Holiday Kitchen:

Mmm-roasted peppers and squash!

 

Love the smell of roasting veggies. Now that the holiday season is almost over it's time to focus on some good, clean eating. Too many sweets-ugh! Next month the Veg Cookbook Club is cooking out of Kris Carr's new cookbook "Crazy Sexy Kitchen." Of course that is one of the few vegan cookbooks I don't have yet and being the cookbook junkie that I am, I immediately ordered it. She is such a powerful example of what clean, healthy eating can do for you. I'm trying, I'm trying! I can't quite get into the green juicing (yet!) I need to add a juicer and maybe a Vitamix to my wish list. :)

 

I served my roasted veggies with Swiss Chard with White Beans & Barley.

Here's to a new year of eating healthy and getting back in the gym!

Roasted Holiday Vegetables~pg. 194

La Dolce Vegan! Challenge:

Don't wait for a holiday to try these roasted veggies~they're too good to wait! The molasses and cinnamon makes these smell great while cooking.

Served my roasted veggies with my favorite  Kale Salad (I added some yellow sweet mini peppers in the salad this time) and Morning Star Farms Hickory BBQ Riblets. I like to keep some convenience foods in the freezer to help me round out a meal or just when I don't feel like cooking!

Spanish/Greek Fusion

I had some Herbed Feta from the Spinach Spanakopita I made so I thought I would try the Classic Greek Salad recipe from the same article. (VegNews May/June 2012)

This huge salad only required 3 Tbsp. of olive oil, a little lemon juice and some oregano, salt and pepper. Bright, fresh flavors and the Herbed Feta was wonderful in it.

Along with the Greek Salad I made Spanish Squash Saute' from Color Me Vegan by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau. I was looking for a recipe to use the organic zucchini and yellow squash I had bought at Sprouts and this sounded good. There are so many ways you could serve this: side dish, on top of baked potatoes, with some scrambled tofu, in a tortilla... The seasonings are just a little chili powder, cumin and salt.

We even had guests to share this meal with. I invited my mom and dad over and I served these with baked potatoes (Earth Balance margarine, vegan sour cream & chives, Daiya cheddar shreds), and garlic/nutritional yeast bread with Peach Crumbcake for dessert! I'll have to say they did bring their own omnivore protein but, hey, the majority of the meal was vegan! That was the first time I cooked a vegan meal for anyone other than my wonderful husband. I need to do that more often; have guests over and cook them a vegan meal!