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Farmers' Market Roasted Root Vegetable and Wild Blueberry Dinner

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As the summer rolls into it's last few weeks, there still time to visit the local farmers' market and pick up the beautiful fruits and vegetables that are in season. Our trips to the farmers' market are very inspiring. As we walk along and check out what the farmers' have in stock, we plan out our dinner. This week when we saw a glorious selection of beet,s we knew that we had to pick them up. There really is nothing quite like well roasted vegetables. As we walked along, we were also inspired by the baskets of wild blueberries. So, our farmers' market dinner would include roasted beets and wild blueberries.

Roasted Farmers' Market Root Vegetables

variety of beets
variety of carrots
2 shallots
baby potatoes
2 tablespoon olive oil
sprigs of rosemary and thyme
salt and pepper

1. Preheat oven to 375F.

2. To prepare the beets for roasting simply rinse under running water to remove dirt, cut off top and bottom.
trimmed beet

3. Slice into uniform pieces.

copped beet

4. Place beets into shallow baking dish.
5. Quarter shallots and place into baking dish with beets.
6. Wash and chop carrots into pieces of similar size to the beets, add to baking dish.
7. Slice potatoes in half and place in baking dish.
8. Add herbs to shallow baking dish.
9. Drizzle with olive oil, salt and pepper.

beets, carrots, potatoes and herbs

10. Place baking dish in oven and roast for 30 minutes...toss veggies at the halfway point.

We served our roasted root vegetables alongside grilled chicken breasts with a wild blueberry sauce. The blueberry sauce was simple to make (adapted from Christine Cook's recipe).

½ cup chicken stock
1 cups wild blueberries
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
salt and pepper

1. Pour chicken stock in saute pan, bring to the boil.

chicken stock in saute pan

2. Add blueberries, simmer until they being to pop.

blueberries in saute pan

3. Add balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper.

blueberries and balsamic vinegar

4. Simmer until sauce thickens and blueberries are softened.
5. Ladle the sauce over grilled chicken breast.

chicken and blueberry sauce

As back to school arrives and our lives get a whole lot busier, it is easy to skip the trip to the farmers' market. But, don't forget that those farmers are growing delicious and healthy fruits and vegetables all year 'round. We love those cool fall trips to the market, when we are inspired by the food we see.

What is your favourite fall fruit or vegetable? Or, is it almost spring where you live? 

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About Jen

Jen Farr is a mother living in Toronto, Canada. She has been sharing her DIY crafts, recipes, activities and parenting advice for over 15 years on her blog Kitchen Counter Chronicle. Jen is the mom of 2 lovely daughters. She believes in the power of taking small steps that can make big impacts on the world.

Comments

  1. Cerys @ Rainy Day Mum says

    Wow this sounds wonderful - we love roasted vegetables and the different ones you can find at the farmers markets. The chicken sounds delicious as well - mixing poultry and berries isn't something I would have thought of doing but it's got my mouth watering.

  2. Lisa Nolan says

    Awsome post and pics! I'm in Heaven! We get many of our veggies from two local family farms (one is a CSA, the other has a Farm Store). The third one delivers (it's called Farm Fresh to You). We have not made anything as yummy looking as yours! Although we did make a stew in the crockpot with local beef stew from the farm store, and lots of root veggies! Darn! I should have taken pictures! And this summer we started working on edible plants in our yard, next year raised beds! I could go on and on but I won't... OK, one last thing, I just read The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love. LOVED IT! Oh, and I have some new gardening Pinterest boards, I will shoot an invite!

  3. Jennifer Fischer says

    That looks delicious. I love roasting root vegetables - so ready for fall!