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Honey Roasted Vegetables

April 5th, 2013
   
Jenn Egatz
         
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I first fell in love with this dish one year ago at Easter. In 2012, Ron and I went to Montclair, New Jersey to have dinner at his cousin Sharyn’s home. Sharyn was also featured in this post. She made the most delicious meal, which I’ve been dreaming about ever since.

For Easter of this year, I was so happy to see what she was making for dinner: my favorite honey roasted veggies, which she made the previous year! Huge chunks of vegetables tossed with sea salt, black pepper, olive oil, and honey, then roasted for 40 minutes until browned, sweet, and juicy. Below is my attempt at recreating Sharyn Taylor’s dish.

Honey Roasted Veggies.

Honey Roasted Veggies. ©Reel Chow

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Chunky Eggplant Chutney

June 11th, 2012
   
Jenn Egatz
         
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Reel Chow Original Recipe!This past weekend, Ron, our new puppy, and I took a trip to New Jersey to see an old friend, Johanna Dominguez. We met Johanna five years ago at the scene of some of Ron’s graduate work, Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York during the Summer Writers’ Conference. Ron use to teach one-on-one poetry conferences during the day. I would visit every night for the evening poetry and fiction readings and have dinner and drinks with his fellow literature friends, who soon became my friends.

Those summer evenings are missed, but we’re still in touch with some of the friends we made all those years ago. Johanna Dominguez is one of them. A brilliant poet and outstanding equestrian, Johanna invited us to her New Jersey home for an incredible cookout this past weekend.

Ron and I out in NYC with friends from the Summer Writers Conference. Johanna is between Perry and Ron.

Ron and I out in NYC with friends from the SLC Summer Writers' Conference. Johanna is between Robert Perry Ivey and Ron. ©Reel Chow

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Vegetable Pizza with Fennel Sauce

April 11th, 2012
   
Jenn Egatz
         
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Reel Chow Original Recipe!This recipe was inspired by my leftover fennel from the previous post, French Breakfast Radish Crostini. I decided to make a homemade pizza with fennel sauce as the base. By braising it in red wine and vegetable broth, along with a spanish onion and shallot, the flavors really popped. This is now my favorite pizza sauce. It’s perfect for healthy eaters, the lactose intolerant, and folks allergic to nightshades. Oh, yes—how good it is!

After I puréed the braised fennel, I spread it on the pizza dough with a spatula. I topped it with fresh, thin slices of yellow and green zucchini, spinach, eggplant and garlic. After cooking the pizza, I added fresh chopped parsley. The pizza came out delicious and colorful.

Vegetable Pizza with Fennel Sauce.

Vegetable Pizza with Fennel Sauce. ©Reel Chow

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