all. Wouldn't people just want to get home? Apparently my skills have cursed me in a way, because I was expecting maybe half the normal amount of people, but quite a few decided to stay BECAUSE I was making dinner. So what can you do to throw together a last minute meal? I love roasting because once everything is in the oven, your hands are free again. I had already scouted out a local butcher (Vic's Meats of Grimsby) that offered a plain pork sausage that didn't have filler in it (usually bread of some type, which causes problems for the people who can't eat gluten). I also had a lot of root veggies, so I turned the oven on and got a couple trays ready. I chopped up carrots and butternut squash, which I doused with oil, garlic, salt, cumin, and a little drizzle of some orange juice concentrate. This is a great 'cheater' ingredient, a little goes a long way to delivering intense orange flavour without me
ssing around with oranges, nice when you're in a rush. In the second tray, I threw in some potatoes that I hadn't yet dealt with, smaller ones that we had received from 4 Life Natural Foods in Kensington earlier that week. I didn't even realize until I had started peeling them that some of the potatoes were those wonderful blue-fleshed ones! I had a nice mix of yellow, white and blue potatoes that looked exactly like a tray of easter eggs. I threw in some slivered onions and kept it simple with olive oil, salt and a sprinkle of oregano. Once those were done, the sausages were roasted and suddenly I was done. And I wasn't too upset to have some leftovers of this after everyone went home for the first break...You had better believe I wasn't going to be cooking on the few days off that I had.- Deirdre
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