Roasted Vegetables & Green Bean Casserole

Day 292

Clearly I don't have enough time for daily blogging during the summer. Noted. I generally do remember to take the pics, but time just gets away from me, most notably during the weekends. This past weekend, for instance, I traveled to Westbrook, ME for a wedding.

Roasted Vegetables & Green Bean Casserole

Roasted Vegetables

Everything from the garden, then roasted in 1/2" water at 350 degrees F for about 40 minutes.

Garden stuff

Ingredients
Carrots
Parsnips
Potatoes
Garlic
Fresh herbs: the Scarborough Fair combo (parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme) plus oregano

Roasted vegetables

Green Bean Casserole

Inspired by our beans from the garden! There is really no better way to eat green beans. Just steam the beans, put them in a casserole dish, pour the soup over top and finally, sprinkle the fried onions over everything. Bake about 20 minutes at 350.

Steamed green beans

Ingredients
Green beans
Homemade cream of mushroom soup (recipe can be found here)
French's fried onions

Green bean casserole

Roasted Vegetables & Green Bean Casserole

Let's Back Up

On Saturday, at the wedding itself, I had some great food, mostly finger food, plus some mac n cheese, but I didn't get a pic, because I didn't realize at the time that it was supper. On the way home, I stopped in Hampden where I took a pic of a fantastic lady - Wendy Pace - making some peach salsa, but that's as close as I came to seeing any food preparation the entire day.

Wendy making peach salsa

After I came back from the wedding trip last night, I had some of Laura's pitas with some spinach/artichoke dip she had made, but failed to take a pic. But tonight, I was in full blogging spirit, so here we are.

Let's Back Up More

The evening before the wedding, Laura and I cooked some veggies from the garden, but I was super busy getting ready for the trip and went to bed early in order to get an early start for a long drive. The evening before that, I was away visiting a relative from the time I got home from work until at least 10 pm and I think I skipped supper that night. No, wait. I think we ordered something. And the evening before that, on Wednesday, it was Eggs Florentine.


Wednesday, August 6: Eggs Florentine
Old stand-by for us.

Eggs Florentine

Friday, August 7: Garden Veggies
Everything from the garden: potatoes, yellow beans and Swiss chard.

Fresh garden vegetables

Reviews/Comments

What on earth is better than this? Hardly anything. Sooo yummy. Got a 10 from us both.