I typed this one up when my baby brother wanted to learn to cook for a new girlfriend who was a vegetarian. He doens't do well with "real" recipes (neither do I) so I started sending him "cooking blueprints" instead.

You can also drop a chicken or a pork loin in the middle of this, in which case you should adjust the time and temperature to whatever's appropriate for the meat.

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup olive oil
• 1/3 cup of something acidic (lemon or lime juice, vinegar, etc.)
• 1/3 cup of something sweet and sticky (honey, molasses, maple syrup, melted gummi bears . . .)
• 2 T or so of something green and leafy, dried (rosemary, basil, oregano, etc.) (Can use 1/4 cup fresh, if available)
• 1-2 each of several spherical or elongated oval shaped things that grow underground (carrots, sweet potatoes, turnips, parsnips, beets, onions, etc.)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Cut the subterranean ovoids into chunks – think two bites per piece – and place in a shallow baking pan
3. Mix everything else together and pour over the veggies. Toss.
4. Cover with foil and put in oven for 1 – 2 hours.

This recipe was submitted by dkw on January 24, 2005.