Having scored a bounty of fresh produce at the local Sunday Farmers Market I decided to take a stab at putting some of the vegetables together in an attempt at a bit of a salad, roast vegetable combo.
The result was tasty and healthy, but certainly more work than I would want out of a simple salad. Still, it made for a nice lunch.
Normally when I roast vegetables I use olive oil, today I used spray-on Pam, and not very much. While healthy, it certainly wasn't as satisfactory as a liberal dose of olive oil. I roasted 2 small red beets, 1 medium golden beet and a half dozen fingerling potatoes. I ended up getting impatient and not roasting them long enough – when roasted properly the skin should be easy to remove and the skin on these beets chose to stay on. Forunetly I had washed them well so I didn't really notice. I did notice that they were a little crisper than I would like, however.
The fingerling potatoes were really good done this way – originally I was going to boil those potatoes but I think now that I will be roasting the rest. I'll be cooking dinner tomorrow and plan to roast them and dress with a little oil, salt, garlic and maybe some chives to make a nice side dish.
For the star of this salad I sliced up some of the grape tomatoes, added some salt, a chiffonade of basil and dressed with just a little balsamic vinegar. Very simple, probably too simple for most, but for me it was what I was looking for.
A simple way to enjoy some of the produce from my farmers market journey.
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