Today's Secret Ingredient-Root Vegetables!

I've been challenging myself ala Iron Chef to try to prepare things and then try variations on them to learn to use leftovers and get over my dependence on pre packaged food.

Yesterday I bought a turnip, a beet, an onion and a small yam..I already had a zuchini which I tossed in for the heck of it.  Anyway, I peeled and chopped then put everything in a bag with a shot of avacado oil, some garlic, sweet basil and some grey sea salt.  Shook the bag, poured it all into a foil packet, folded and baked for an hour and half at 405. (Foil packet saves clean up and also saves moisture if like me, you get busy and forget to check...)

I just had a bowl of the veggie goodness sprinkled with some shredded mozzarella (goat cheese would rock too).  Took some to my folks and have enough to add in to a soup of some sort for a nice hearty veggie soup and I'll probably make an omelette with the remainder-or just eat it with a sprinkle of honey and butter....mmmmmmm. 

The neat thing was I was able to have a variety of veggies without getting overwhelmed by the amounts in a "real" recipe. 

LOL_I never heard of it either before yesterday-I've been buying and trying different oils.  It works better if you buy a brand that has the "heat" on the bottle-some oils need high heat, some don't do at all well in high heat.  The avacado oil was really nice-it gave the veggies that smoothness without adding a lot of flavor or greasy taste.

I usually use safflower oil most of the time-it's cost effective and mild flavored-I only like olive oil in something I want to taste like olives-it's never been my favorite.  I also like the nut oils, sesame, peanut and walnut-I've been meaning to try and make some mayonaise with walnut oil, but sadly I am always missing an ingredient (it's sad because mayo is just oil and eggs, and yet I'm always without one or the other).  I think I'm going to give the avacado oil a try for some mayo.....Olive oil makes good mayo IF you like Oil....LOL.

I don't fry foods as a general rule and I actually have a little problem with getting in enough of the "good" oils....even on WW pre WLS, I was always getting yelled at for that-so I'm really trying to come up with ways to get in a little oil that I will actually eat.  It's just so weird because I came from the FAT IS BAD generation.