Eating vegetables

I tend to post a lot of pictures of what i eat and i have on occasion been asked for a recipe or two (it doesn't happen that often) when i post food pictures, and since i never use a recipe myself, but rather just make stuff up as i go along, i figured that the blog could be a good place to write it all down.
Seriously, you'd think the labels were for my readers, but really they're mostly for me to keep track of my own life!
So, from now on, if i cook something that i'd like to try making again sometime, i may post the recipe here before i forget it, and attach the brand new label called "recipes".

Today i made a dish called "root vegetables and other stuff i found in my fridge that i had to eat before it expired".
Not very catchy, i know.
I was expecting it to be ok, but it was actually better than that, it was really friggin delicious.
Definitely one of those things i'd like to make again, but would most likely forget how to make before i had the chance.
Oh, you know that old cliché about how good food is made with lots of love? Well i call bullshit on that one, because i was positively furious when i made this and it turned out awesome. So there.
Anyway, this is mostly for me, but if any of you would like to give this easy dish a try, feel free.

I used:

About six or seven sliced potatoes
Three big sweet potatoes cut in square chunks
Half a zucchini
Crumbled goat cheese, you know, the kind that looks and tastes like feta, but they can't call it that anymore or something?
One red onion
A couple of sliced parsnips
Half a celery root
One leek, sliced
Half a lemon (first i squeezed the juice from it into the mix, then i cut the rest into quarters and tossed them in there too)

Most of the ingredients i used are organic, but if you're not a eco-nazi like me, regular produce will work fine too.
So, i put all of it in a big oven proof dish, and with my hands (it's the only way to really get it all to come together) i mixed in lots of olive oil, fresh garlic, salt and pepper, ground coriander, rosemary and oregano.
Some fresh thyme would have been great in this, but Irma had nothing today, it being the first work day of the new year and all.
I think i gave it about 45 minutes in the preheated oven on 200 c (that's 392 degrees Fahrenheit) but it could have been a little longer. I had it on the grill setting for the last 15 minutes, that i do remember.
When it was done, i put in some of this fancy Austrian oil that our friends Igl and Bernie gave us this summer, and while i'm sure it'll taste good without it too, i'd definitely recommend that you try it out, if you can get your hands on it.
Allan had his with some of the roast left over from new years, and i had mine with a couple of fried eggs, but you could probably serve it with lots of things. Or alone, that'd work too.

I was actually gonna put fresh avocado in it too, but i forgot
The Austrian miracle oil

This dish was the highlight of my day, so as you can probably guess, my day has been pretty fucking weak.
I'm hoping tomorrow will be way less frustrating.

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