It was Saturday afternoon, it had been snowy and cold and windy all day, and I didn’t want to go to the store. I knew I had some stuff I could make something with. I looked in my freezer and saw I had a whole chicken and I quickly defrosted that in the microwave. Then I looked to see what veggies I had. I had a bag of potatoes, some carrots, a head of cauliflower and frozen green beans. I decided to just roast all those in one dish!
I actually cooked the potatoes in the microwave on the “baked potato” setting but stopped when it had a few minutes left. I still wanted them to be kind of firm. I sliced those into large wedges. Then I cut up about 5 carrots, I cut up the cauliflower, and put several huge handfuls of frozen green beans. I drizzled about 1 tablespoon of olive oil on top, and sprinkled with salt and pepper.
Bake for about 45 minutes, or until they start to brown and can be pierced easily with a fork. Can I just tell you that all 3 of my kids LOVED the roasted veggies. Especially the cauliflower! I decided to sprinkle a little fresh parmesan cheese over the cauliflower, so I’m sure that helped.
And the chicken couldn’t be easier either. I just mixed poultry seasoning, salt and pepper, and oregano on top of the skin.
Since the roasted veggies turned out so well, I decided to roast some more veggies for green salsa for taco night the next night.
In a 9×13 pan, I put 1 1/4 pounds of tomatillos (about 10), take the paper off, wash the skin off (its kind of sticky) and just set them in the pan whole. Then I added about 4 cloves of garlic, 1/2 a medium sized white onion, 1 jalapeno and baked that at 350 for about 40 minutes.
Take out of the oven and let cool. Just throw all that in a blender with the juice of half a lime and fresh cilantro. It totally made taco night even better AND it cost about a dollar to make!
So my taco was 2 oz. taco meat, spinach, queso fresco cheese, fresh cilantro and my homemade green salsa. So good!!!
And Thanks to Dave for giving me a shout out on his blog, he made a great version of a pasta dish I made last week!
Tomorrow I am going to talk about goals, and revisiting my goals for the year so far! Can you believe March is half over already??
Very impressive quick dinners, homemade salsa is so much better than store bought! Yeah, time seems to be flying.
Looks delicious! That taco is killer, that’s my type of dinner! I’ve never used tomatillos before — hmm maybe an upcoming Friday First?! hehe 😛
Oh wow, it looks amazing….such fresh ingredients! I see tomatillos in my local grocery store all the time, but have not tried cooking with it yet.
And aw, is it STILL snowing over there? I’m sorry…hope that crazy Mid-west weather clears up!
I am really starting to LOVE roasted veggies! Yum!
I tagged you on my blog today:)
oh, this may drive you crazy, but march is 3/4 ers over with… well beyond half
oooh your taco looks yum – love the addition of queso fresca cheese!! And all of those roasted veggies – fab!
I can’t believe it – where has 2010 gone????!!!
There is nothing better than a big plate of roasted veggies.
And isn’t time flying! Sheesh. I feel like just yesterday we were talking about Christmas cookies.
MMMMM! Looks amazing!
Okay I want that taco.