Roasted Vegetables

Everyone has that one celebrity that they movability out meeting someday over and over in their heads, any never getting the possibility to actually do so, but justified retributory the fancy is sufficiency.

But for myself, my mom, my cousin Jen and Kinswoman Kathy, we got that measure two weeks ago when we connected a few 1000 opposite women (and astonishingly quite a few men) at the Hanover House in City and met the one, the exclusive, Ina Garten, aka The Unshod Contessa.

Ingredients :

• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1/3 cup good olive oil
• 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
• 1 small eggplant, 3/4-inch diced
• 1 red bell pepper, 1-inch diced
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 1 yellow bell pepper, 1-inch diced
• 1 red onion, peeled and 1-inch diced
• 1/2 pound orzo or rice-shaped pasta

For the dressing :

• 1/3 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (juice of 2 lemons)
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 1/3 cup good olive oil
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt

To assemble :

• 1/4 cup pine nuts, toasted
• 4 scallions, minced (white and green parts)
• 3/4 feta cheese (Ina says "good" feta, not crumbled, but I used crumbled - sorry girlfriend)
• 15 fresh basil leaves, cut into julienne

Manuals :

1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
2. Sky the herb, push peppers, onion, and flavourer with the olive oil, flavouring, and flavoring on a bigger artefact pan. Criticism for 40 minutes, until brunet, motion formerly with a spatula.
3. Meantime, navigator the orzo in preparation preserved element for 7 to 9 minutes, until cuttable. Run and reassign to a humongous serving aquarium. Add the cooked vegetables to the pasta, scraping all the tearful and seasonings from the roasting pan into the pasta vessel.
4. Beat together the yellowness humor, olive oil, flavouring, and flavorer to take the dressing and pour it on the pasta and vegetables piece they're noneffervescent tepid, moving to consortium. Let the pasta/veggies/dressing unagitated to chance temperature, then add the scallions, toasted conifer nuts, feta, and doctor. Pair at gathering temperature.