
Dinner tonight was so colorful I was kinda blown away. I'm reading Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
To accompany a Skagit River Ranch beef burger with Samish Bay Creamery cheese, homemade bacon from our friend Gerald, and store bought guacamole & jalapenos, I roasted up a bevy of veggies from our garden.
I dug up the first of the potatoes from our plants - grown from potatoes we bought at the farmers market from Olsen Farms. I wasn't sure they'd produce, but we already have tons of taters in the soil in reds, purples, and whites. The blues seem to be getting a late start, having been shadowed by the other plants - but hopefully they'll be perking up soon.
I also dug up a fennel bulb and a handful of young carrots from our garden, and cut some oregano, parsley, and rosemary from our herb garden.
Everything got chopped up, drizzled with olive oil, seasoned with salt & pepper, and tossed on a baking pan in a 425 degree oven for 20 minutes - until perfectly roasted.
The roasted veggies went on the plate on top of some kale I cut from the garden and then braised in a little water and the bacon and burger drippings.
The result was a rainbow of colors and flavors, largely from our own backyard, which was really rewarding.

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