Toaster Oven
Did you know that you could make delicious, roasted veggie in your toaster oven?
I wanted to buy a toaster oven for a long time but I just couldn’t justify it because I had a toaster AND a big oven already. When I finally caved in and got one I couldn’t believe I had waited so long. It was a total kitchen game changer. I even got rid of my toaster and I save on energy costs by rarely using my oven. It seems silly to warm up a huge oven for a small dish, and the toaster oven bakes and broils so if I am not cooking for a lot of people, its perfect.
The reason I love my toaster oven so much is that it seems easier to use than my oven. I don’t hve to bend down and reach into the caverns of my oven. It is easier to spy on my food in the toaster oven and I am more inspired to use it for roasting veggies, which is one of the tastiest and easiest thing to do for your diet.
My favorite things to roast are tomatoes, peppers and cloves of garlic. But you can roast anything. Sweet potatoes, root veggies, beets, brussel sprouts and broccoli. Cooking your veggies is important for digestive issues because it makes it easier to digest, starting the breaking down process before you eat it.
Check out what I made the other day in my toaster oven. I lined the tray with parchment paper and put in small whole sweet potatoes, organic heirloom tomatoes, a few garlic cloves and a sliced a pale green bell pepper and 4 small frozen turkey meat balls. It was so good. Roasting brings out the sugars in food and the fatty juices from the meatballs coated everything with a meaty taste. Yum.
I just started getting organic produce delivered bimonthly from a local farm. What’s in the box is always a surprise, creating Iron Chef moments of what am I going to do with this?
Well if I can put it in the blender, I can always roast it. It makes me eat food I wouldn’t usually choose, saves me a trip to the market and turns on those Iron Chef-style creative juices.
Tell me about your experiences with roasting in the comments. I want to be inspired by your recipes.
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Angela Privin is proof that IBS is NOT an incurable disease, but a cry for help from a gut out of balance. When the body AND mind are complaining, it’s an opportunity to examine what’s not working and change it. After solving her own IBS mystery almost two decades ago, Angela became as a health coach to help others. Angela uses root cause medicine protocols personalized to the individual to solve each IBS mystery. Her tools are lab testing, dietary changes, supplementation, subconscious mind work and nervous system rebalancing . Learn more here.