Rooting for them now
Saturday February 01st 2025, 5:36 pm
Filed under: Food

Welllll, the package was pretty. The contents were in the what’s not to love department. So I bought it.

Fire-roasted root veggies (sweet potatoes/carrots/parsnips/onions) in a giant Costco freezer bag were a bit daunting after the fact. I knew the fiber content was beyond me as a colectomy patient, and yet there it was.

Unless…(she thought, staring at the bag a couple of weeks later.)

The Cuisinart. Not the blender, I didn’t want puree, although, close. Into the pot. Throw some Trader Joe’s frozen fire-roasted bell papers in the machine, just a couple of twirls of the blade. A little broth, a half hour simmer, let’s just see what we get….

Hey.

There was a whole lot more where those had come from.

The second time, I oven-roasted an entire Costco pack of cherry tomatoes for half an hour and then those I did puree and threw in the pot with the root veggies that were by then looking vaguely like sandpaper grit floating at the top. (The parsnips: like pimples just waiting to be popped. Hey, I’m trying to give you a visual, where are you going?!)

On an oh just try it, I added the leftover third of a cup or so of pumpkin puree in the fridge. And some sausage.

Half an hour more of simmering from there. You can’t quite make out the pumpkin specifically but it really added to it.

I’m writing this down so I remember what I did where I can find it and because I’m actually hoping now that they’re still selling those root veggie bags. There’s a potluck next week and that was really really good.

The only problem is, I am forever now going to think off it as parsnippimplepopper soup.