Veggie Grab Bag

One of my local organic, small-business grocery/diners regularly has coupons for half off of a giant grab bag of in-season locally grown veggies. I got one and had a lot of fun cooking and eating them. What I did for most of the root vegetables was to make bakes (not fries) out of them. It's super-easy.

What you need:

• Assortment of your favorite root vegetables (carrots, potatoes, rutabaga, beets, etc.)
• olive oil
• your favorite blend of spices (I recommend salt, pepper, Rosemary, cumin, red pepper, Italian seasoning.) ( Note: For veggies like sweet potatoes or beets, I like putting cinnamon, nutmeg, and sugar on then instead.)
• large mixing bowl
• baking sheet

What to do:

• preheat oven to 350°
• peel and chop your vegetables into small sticks or chips (depending on the natural shape of the vegetable.)
• place the chopped veggies in the bowl and drizzle a sparing amount of olive oil on the vegetables. Toss or stir the vegetables until all are lightly coated in olive oil.
• add your spices to the bowl, and toss or stir until all veggies until the spices are relatively evenly distributed.
• place veggies on the baking sheet in a single later (you might have to bake in multiple batches.)
• place baking sherry in oven and cook for approximately 10 minutes or until veggies begin to crisp.
• allow veggies to cool enough that you won't burn your mouth of when you bite into them.
• enjoy! 

A Few Updates

I started a YouTube beauty channel. Yeah. I finally jumped on the bandwagon. However, I hope that I am putting a new, refreshing spin on the whole girl-interested-in-fashion-or-cosmetics-starts-a-YouTube-channel-that-she-hopes-everyone-will-love-because-she's-just-that-special thing. I've been considering doing this for a while because I don't think there are many vegan/cruelty-free beauty channels. That's a problem, people. So, I am going to do my best to remedy that. By the way people, I'm still in the process of building the channel, so it's not very pretty yet. Bear with me. It'll be pretty soon. I do have one video up right now. It's part of a projected series called "College Cosmetics." Warning though, I have been experiencing a few technical difficulties with the video. Hopefully, those will be resolved shortly. Oh, since Google owns YouTube, this comes with a Google + page, which I plan to utilize for minor updates as well as alerts of things. I'd totally love for everyone to go follow it! Add me to ALL your circles! <3

Also, heads up, I'm changing the name of this blog to "Vegetabelle" and the web address is going to be www.vegetabelle.blogspot.com . I hope that doesn't cause any problems for anyone! I know I've changed the name of the blog twice now, but I do not foresee any other changes in the future. I love the name vegetabelle. I think it's super-adoreable. I mean, it's like "vegetable" because it's about vegan stuff, and "belle," which is French for "beautiful," because it involves cosmetics and fashion.

I promise I'm not dropping the food section of this blog. In fact, I may even do cooking tutorials? I'm not sure. We'll have to see about that.

Everyone. I really need your feedback. If you like seeing my face and actually hear me talk and watch me demonstrate things, then I will continue with the beauty channel. If you people are like "meh, you've got a face for radio," then We can ll just pretend this never happened, and go back to blog-only.

Lastly, I would like to apologize for being so inactive recently. I am working on fixing that. I'm in a very project-oriented major right now for school, so that means not a whole lot of time to write or talk about my opinions on life, the universe, and everything. I'm super sorry.

If you have any questions or comments, PLEASE leave a comment for me. I love hearing from you awesome readers.