Whenever the air smells like cows in Colorado, a storm is brewing. The air blows from Greely, CO – where the cattle are kept, and it permeates the whole state. It’s like our own weather warning system. While we get ready for snow, you get ready for a veggie fest…
I loved everything about my lunch
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(Thanks Tona!!!)
Love.
I also snacked throughout the afternoon (I have to eat lunch early – like 11:20) on an apple, a Z Bar, and a bouquet of carrots and hummus (I loved that description Deane!)
Then I came home early to prepare a magnificent veggiful dinner.
Pre-roasting, drizzled with evoo and seasoned with salt/pepper
Beets, carrots, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower and a sweet potato into the oven for about 40 minutes @ 425*
My portion – with a sautéed chicken tender in the background. All eaten with chopsticks (I’m trying to not be in such a rush all the time – chopsticks help)
This meal was so good I feel like screaming it from the rooftop – but I guess typing it into cyberspace will have to do. Beets are so fantastic. So are Brussels, carrots and cauliflower. Oh yeah, and sweet potatoes have my heart. Roast them all together…too good for words.
Now I’m munching on flax cookies for dessert
Such a tasty day.
Roasted veggies are definitely the best thing to come home to at night for me
I absolutely love roasted veggies for cold winter nights. They’re so comforting!
I have to try this PB and sweet potato combo…
Have a fantastic Friday!
Peanut butter on sweet potatoes is soo good. What makes it even better is adding some marshmallow fluff on it! Almond butter is good too.
Try this though, put cream cheese and diced candied pecans on top–amazing!
Awesome blog too!
That heart bowl is really cute! I am going to have to slather a sweet potato with PB, never thought of that but sounds delicious!
I am surprised you kept your Cinnamon Justin’s for almost 7 days! Was it good? I made cinnamon cashew and its great! I hope today was better for ya…beets really? What do they taste like baked???
Hey, your the genius here… THANKS for the shout-out though, made my night! Well that and the fact that your meals never cease to amaze me! Roasted beets? I am definitely going to have to make yet another stop on my way home tomorrow because your pics reminded me how much i love them. I bet you i can get my family to like them too if i show them that 4th to last pic! I totally remember that smell… As soon as you mentioned it i could smell it all over again! A couple of my friends go to UNC so they are in agony as well right now, lol. Is it weird that i kind of miss it?
WOW amazing day of eats! i have a sweet tater waiting on me to consume!
flax cookies make a return…love it.
and the purple roasted veggies. oh, that’s perfect. purple food is a beautiful thing
Your roasted veggies looked amazing!!! I’m thinking that I might have to do this on the weekend. I sautee veggies a lot, but always forget about baking them.
roasted veggies are the best and sweet potatoes have my heart too!
peanut butter on a sweet potato???? Ok, I’m intrigued. You gave me the idea to pack a sweet potato for lunch (thanks! I was just trying to figure out what to take today!) and I’ll pack some PB on the side.
Roasted veggies are.100%.amazing.
I have never though of pb or almond butter for my sweet potatoes. I am loving your roasted veggies…all of my faves!
I’ve been seeing nut butters on sweet potatoes everywhere…must. try. that. soon!
Your roasted veggie feast for dinner is seriously making me crave some, even though it’s only 8:30 am. They’re the best winter dinner, aren’t they? So filling and comforting. I actually have some sweet taters now, I might have to try your nut butter combo for lunch! Funny thing about the cow smell! Colorado is such a gorgeous state! Have a great Friday
Mmm. I do love roasted vegetables, tho beets are not my favorite. But you’re stirring my appetite for Brussel sprouts, which I haven’t had in ages.
Hope the storm isn’t too bad!
I guess chopsticks make sense for slowing down your eating. They certainly would slow me down because I don’t know how to use them…:)
It smells like cows or like cow, uh, pies?
That pile o’ veggies looks pretty awesome.
I think the two smells are pretty synonymous…but I guess the stink is from the pies – haha.
Okay I LOVE that heart bowl! Where do you find such cute dishes?!? I know it sounds stupid but I always feel better when I eat from pretty or fun dishes!
Haha! I actually found that dish in our staff ounge!! Probably a discarded teacher gift from someone – I jumped at the opportunity to use it yesterday!
I’m pretty sure it seems like cows ALL the time in Iowa:)
That really was a tasty day!
I HAVE to try that pb/sweet potato combo – I bet I would absolutely love it. And those roasted root vegetables look amazing.
I’m so glad your Thursday was much better than your Wednesday (mine was too, I’ll have to email you about it later!)
HAPPY FRRRIIIIDAAAY!!
Ah! Sweet potatoes and beets-cooked any way are the best ever. And I am so happy to see that you eat with chopsticks to help slow yourself down! I started doing that a few weeks ago too and I think it really helps. I wouldn’t try them while trying to consume couscous though!
yummy justin’s!!! bouquet is a cute word for it, ha!
Hahaha- so true about the cow smell. Gross and true.
there is seriously NOTHING better than roasted veggies! and i love that you use chopsticks to eat. i am totally a notoriously fast eater as well, and that would def help.
let’s catch up soon my lady
It pretty much always smells like cows in Oklahoma, haha. Hope the snow isn’t too bad!
The roasted veggie medley looks amazing. So comforting!
Holy YUM!
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Sweet Potatoes + PB looks like an AMAZING combo!
Can´t wait to try it myself
Oh, and you´re so right – you´ve had SUCH a tasty day!
Have a great Friday!
Brazilian XOXO´s,
Gabriela
That’s interesting that the air smells like cows.
I love the pb and sweet potato combination. Who would have thought they would go together so well but they totally do.
I feel like I just went to veggie town! I love the dinner combo. I might be the only person left on Earth that hasn’t tried the sweet potato + pb combo… need to get on that.
p.s. That’s really interesting that it smells like cows when a storm is coming! It almost seems too funny to be true, but well, I’ll take your word for it.
I love everything about this post. Sweet potatoes truly are one of the best roasted veggies out there.
What a day of sweet potato eats! I love sweet potatoes…and kabocha..a lot of my fave food is orange, which is why I’m kind of orange-y myself, heee hee. Do you notice that about your own skin?
Anyway…will have to try sp with pb!
I love SP with nut butter!! So divine!!
Great idea to use chopsticks. I really need to slow down. I’ve always, always been a fast eater.
YOu pretty much had my dream dinner.. seriously nothing beats a massive pan filled with yummy veggies!!!
Have a great weekend, hun!
Sooo I love sweet potatoes and I love peanut butter…..so why haven’t I thought about putting peanut butter on a sweet potato is beyond me! What a great idea!!!! Those cookies look super good too!
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Mmm those veggies look SO good!!
not just nut butter, but CINNAMON nut butter on a sweet p? wow, sheer brilliance, i’ll definitely have to eat this soon!
So this post totally re-confirmed the fact that I need to try having sweet potatoes with almond butter!! I’ve been thinking about the combo for a while now, but haven’t had a sweet p to work with until my roommate so generously got one for me while running errands the other day (how sweet!)
I’m thinking, to put it over the top delicious of course–of adding a blob of cottage cheese w/ cinnamon to it too!! MMMMMMMM
And I LOVE roasted vegetables! Miss them so much…..i think “roasting” veggies just isn’t in my sorority house chef’s vocab. He knows either steamed or slathered and dripping in oil and butta. The two extremes! ha!
Ahh yes! I am roasting veggies for dinner tonight. Glad to see your treats! I still haven’t tried the peanut butter on the sweet potato; can’t wait! Hope it doesn’t snow
I need to start roasting my veggies; yours look too good! and I secretly love when you have prepackaged spreads because then you don’t have to worry about them leaking in your bag and they are so easy to use… at least that’s how I justify it to myself when they charge you so much more for the prepackaged stuff
What a simple yet OUTSTANDINGLY delicious looking lunch. I have to do that sometime too, especially since I still have The Heat Is On peanut butter to use up and that certainly doesn’t go on oatmeal now does it!?
ohhh my gawddd…love the taters and justins together, they really are meant to be together esp the cinnamon flav! love that one! love all the veggies in here too
cant get enough!!!