Roasted Winter Vegetable Ragout with Shaved Parmesan

A simple warming recipe for oven-roasted stew or ragout. 

After an odd and uncharacteristic nod to spring the temperature has dipped again into chilly territory. The bird baths are frozen. No snow, but the moonlit sky was sharp last night in a brittle way it hasn't been for weeks.

We went to an extraordinary film late yesterday- one not to miss (though I fear it's circulating out of theaters already). Terrence Mallick's The New World. It's hard to put into words, because the experience of it is so, well, non-verbal. Like all of his other films it is visual poetry- lyrical, intuitive, non-linear, experiential. The Jungian in me can only say it beautifully evokes the Divine Feminine, the Heroine's Journey. Don't miss it.


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Roasted Vegetables in a Nest

Tender, sweet roasted vegetables in a nest of gluten-free pasta.

Last night was a night for roasting. There's nothing so easy as roasted vegetables. And nothing quite as tender and sweet. All those natural sugars softening and caramelizing into deep toned jewels of melting charred goodness. It's enough to soothe any gloomy girl's heart. Especially against-the-current girls who dream of Venice Beach and don jean jackets and flip-flops instead of downy winter coats and wool scarves.

Especially in February.

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