[eggplant] &[garlic] pizza w/a [cauliflower] &[asparagus] salad | a 420 din-din

 

eggplant, cauliflower, &garlic
actually went into the oven first
&then the asparagus went in
&it was all cooled
before becoming pizza toppings or salad fixings

Get the oven going ... 400 F

Eggplant

raw dogged on the pan (learned that they should be poked, haha, the bigger one of the three popped ... still delicious)

Garlic

slice off the top of the bulb to reveal the little bulbs inside (see top-right corner of the top-right pic) 

set in a small piece of tin foil

drizzle evoo

wrap up tin foil  

Cauliflower

from frozen

throw into a mixing bowl

toss with evoo, s&p 

make sure the pan is large enough to comfortably fit all of the veg

line with a fresh sheet of parchment

&set all the veg in the pan

once your oven is hot
[ROAST] for 30 minutes

Prep asparagus

trim off tough ends

wash

keep in fridge until roasting time

when the timer goes off

toss cauliflower + flip eggplant

[ROAST] 5 more minutes

Remove [eggplant], [cauliflower], &[garlic] from pan

set aside to cool until cool enough to

set in fridge to chill

Lay a fresh sheet of parchment into the pan

pan the asparagus

drizzle evoo

sprinkle s&p

toss

[ROAST] 10 minutes

Prep lettuce + cucumber

if you have a salad spinner, fill the spinner with water

starting from the tips of the leafy greens

cut off the very tippy tips of the leaves if they need to be trimmed

cut from the tip of the leaves down toward the butt

in about one-&ahalf-to-two-inch (bite-sized) chonks

wash in the filled spinner or in a strainer

set in fridge

wash the cucumber (this cucumber was actually prepped the day before)

really give it a rub

starting from one tip

slice the thing at an angle

in quart-inch slices

to create ovals

make a small stack of ovals

slice the ovals into three long sheaths

set in fridge

when the timer goes off

remove [asparagus] from the oven

set [asparagus] in the bowl with the chilling [cauliflower]
 

after

(uh, yea, the bodybuddy/lifemate had been making a pizza dough this whole time)

the pizza dough is proofed and ready to be made into pizza ...

Make pizza

use [eggplant] &[garlic] as toppings

Make salad

dump lettuce into the bottom of a large bowl (we made one enormo-salad to share)

drizzle evoo

lightly drizzle whichever salad dressing you're using (we used a generic cesar) 

cause the roasted veggies are so tasty without any fluff

fresh-crack pepper (lots)

drop the cucumber over the lettuce

chop up [asparagus] into bite-sized cylinders 

slide the [asparagus] into a heap on the cucumber

spoon the [cauliflower] into a heap on the cucumber

toss

Chee ... eers the fuck is this?!?!