Using vegetables and yummy in the same sentence,

Oh goodness, I haven't posted anything here since last year. Probably because I'm not thinking as much about losing weight as I am trying to get my sugar down. On the other hand, if I lost weight my sugar WOULD go down. It's become very obvious that I'm a carb addict and oh boy do I have a sweet tooth. Why would those wonderful things be put on the earth if we weren't meant to consume them? I'm just not a vegetable kind of gal. But tonight, I did eat this.


My daughter has been telling me how good roasted vegetables are. The vegetables in my life have usually been frozen, preferably with some kind of yummy sauce. I could not imagine cutting up some veggies, tossing them with a bit of olive oil and salt and pepper and simply roasting them in then oven could possibly be good.

Color me wrong. Yummy! For the record I roasted potatoes (skins left on), sweet potatoes (also with the skin), asparagus, carrots, zucchini (with skin), red peppers, and whole cloves of garlic. I had some squash which I forgot to cut up, another day I guess. And yes, the potatoes are carbs but eating them with no added sauce along side other vegetables make them okay. I think. I'm still learning. And next time - I need to have more green vegetables. But all in all, I would recommend this cooking method for vegetables. There's nothing to it and it's surprising good! (from a carb and sugar addict, that's saying something!)

I’m behaving, really.

The girl at work I share my office room with, has a garden. You know what that means. I am threatened with bodily harm if I do not eat her produce. On Tuesday she gave me a zucchini and 2 little yellow squash. Squashes? Anyway.

Wednesday morning: “Beej, did you cook the zucchini and the squash?”

“No Joan, I haven’t. I will, don’t worry.”

This morning: “Beej, did you cook it yet?”

“No Joan, I didn’t.”

About a half hour later of things totally unrelated to vegetables: “Beej?”

“Yeah?”

“Don’t wait too long to cook it, you know it will start to get ..”

“I know Joan. I have dealt with vegetables before.

“Okay.”

There is a half wall between us so I don’t see her as she is admonishing me about not wasting the precious vegetables grew with the sweat of her – uh – I don’t want to know where she sweats. But something she doesn’t remember – I DIDN’T ASK FOR THE VEGETABLES!!!!

So I cooked them tonight. See to me, zucchini and squash (except acorn squash that you bake with a ton of butter and brown sugar) are fairly tasteless. So basically – it was about what I could add to not only make them tasty – but to make them TASTE. Like ANYTHING.

A little olive oil, garlic and onion (powder) bread crumbs and parmesan cheese did the trick. And after I took the pictures I actually ate some. Not bad!

Oh - threw some tomato slices in for color. I LIKE color. I bet you couldn't tell.