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I love ratatouille roasted in the oven. It is so easy to just throw all the vegetables together on a baking sheet. Just make sure to place the vegetables are on a single layer in the roasting pan to ensure roasting and prevent steaming. I think its wonderful how you can put so many different vegetables together and make one beautiful dish. All the flavors compliment each other so nicely. I like to make this dish when I want to eat healthy. I served my ratatouille with a wonderful panko crusted chicken strip that I will share latter this week.
I also want to share with you all a fun program I am participating in called Adopt a Blogger. Adopt a blogger is a program hosted by Kristen at Dine and Dish. Kristen is the nicest lady, always there to answer questions about blogging and photography. She never hesitants to help a newbie blogger like myself. In her spirit of helping newbie bloggers, she has put together this program in which a more experienced blogger is paired with a newbie blogger.
In this program, I have been paired with Jackie from Foodie Reflections. She has been blogging for almost 2 years, and has a professional culinary background, how exciting! Here is her story:
“I didn’t grow up cooking, unless you count occasionally making cookies or spaghetti. In fact, I first discovered cooking while studying abroad in Florence, Italy, during college which is where I took my first cooking class. After Italy, I returned to the U.S., finished my degree in journalism and got my first real job at a public relations agency. During that time I also continued to explore my growing interest in cooking and found myself getting more and more into it.
A few years later I was at a fork in the road and made the decision to leave PR and marketing and go to culinary school full-time. I enrolled at Kendall College in Chicago (where I’m from and had been living since college) and went through a year-and-a-half intensive, military-esque program in culinary arts. It was truly one of my most demanding accomplishments and I am still boggled by how much information I learned and retained in such a short period of time.
I’d always known my goal wasn’t to be a restaurant chef, but I did want to experience that life and did a short stint during culinary school at a local restaurant, which leads to a whole lot of other stories for another time.
After culinary school, I spent about two years working on various food-related projects, including as a personal chef, freelance food writer, recipe tester and food stylist, and six months of that was full-time on a cookbook about Asian noodles. It was during that time I started my blog as a way to practice my writing and quickly became obsessed with it and all things social media.
Most recently, I returned to my PR roots and am currently working at an agency on various food accounts. I still teach classes once a week for Common Threads, a nonprofit that teaches Chicago public school children cooking skills, nutrition and cultural diversity (it’s an amazing program and one I’m very passionate about).”
Roasted Ratatouille Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 large eggplant, diced
- 2 yellow squash, diced
- 1 red pepper, diced
- 1 yellow pepper, diced
- 1 green pepper, diced
- 2 zucchini squash, diced
- 1/2 red onion, diced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2-3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon dried Italian herbs (oregano, basil, marjoram, thyme, rosemary, savory, and sage)
Method
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Combine vegetables, olive oil, salt, and herbs in a large bowl. Mix well.
- Place vegetables in a single layer on a large sheet pan. Roast vegetables until browned, about 20-30 minutes at 400 degrees.
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I joined the Adopt a Blogger too and Kamran (sophisticated gourmet) is my mentor. I should baking roasting my ratatouille next time.
this looks delicious! roasted veggies are just delicous!
That looks so colorful and delicious!
Cheers,
Rosa
Would you believe that I’ve never actually had or made ratatouille? This looks so amazing, I am wondering why I am not already eating it!
this looks great! so beautiful!
Beautiful display Angie. The adopt a blogger program sounds exciting, I hope you do well with it. From the sounds of it you’ve been paired up well.
Wow.. that’s colourful, healthy and looks really delicious. I would love to try this. I always do stir fry. Need to have a change. Hope my children will like it. Adopt A Blogger sounds very interesting. I must check that out. I’m still a baby blogger.
such a colorful dish!
Wow, your ratatouille looks delicious, love the mixture of the veggies in it
By the way, I just quickly checked on your adopted blogger and already bookmarked 
Your ratatoille looks so colorful and delicious with the roasted veggies! Excellent!
Looks delicious with all of those vegetables. Just signed up for your feed so I get all of your recipes! Thanks, Roz
I was surfing the blog world, when your blog popped up, so I thought I would say hello – Super photos !!! I have shared this with twiter
When I saw this picture, I closed my eyes and I almost smelled the food. Geez I’m hungry now!
If I may suggest something, I think you should add a “print-this” type of plugin to this blog. It would be a lot easier to print out a recipe without the sidebars and the comments.
Thanks for sharing this with us. Have a nice weekend!
Angie replied: — March 3rd, 2010 @ 4:36 pm
Just switching the theme, and now have the print option working again, thanks!
i absolutely enjoy all your writing kind, very attractive.
don’t give up as well as keep creating considering it simply just truly worth to look through it.
looking forward to look into a lot more of your own stories, have a good day!
looking delicious, Will surely bookmark your site.. Really Too good, Thanks..
Looks very colourful and delicious.
Look nice
Oh wow! You make this look so beautiful! Wish I had that now!
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don’t quit and keep creating for the simple reason that it simply just truly worth to look through it.
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