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Autumn Fare - vegetable - Roasted Autumn Vegetables - pumpkin, late tomatoes, sweet onion

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Roasted Autumn Vegetables - Pumpkin, Tomatoes and Sweet Onion

Where I live, we can purchase tomatoes all year round, as Spain always has a crop growing in the south when the season to the north is over. Plum tomatoes are best, it seems, in late summer through autumn. The flavours of this dish remain deliciously separate and I prefer a rice dish such as Basmati and Wild Rice with a little pool of Pomegranate Sauce with these vegetables. This dish harmonizes wonderfully with a mushroom dish and perhaps a fresh spinach salad to balance and add colour.

serves 2 (multiplies easily)

preheat oven to 200°

4 thick slices of a sm. pumpkin (1-1/2 cm. thick)

1 lg. sweet onion (red onion is also very good)

4 plum tomatoes

3 T. oil

salt

Cut the slices of pumpkin from half rings or wedges, then cut again. Cut the onion into eighths, quarter the tomatoes lengthways and remove the seeds.

Toss the onions and tomatoes with 2 T. of the oil and salt to taste (+ - 1/4 t.). Place in a roasting pan large enough to allow that all vegetables are in a single layer. Roast in a hot oven for 20 to 25 minutes or until tomatoes are tender but not soft.

Remove tomatoes to a bowl and set aside. Add the pumpkin slices to the onions, baste with the remaining oil and sprinkle over a little salt. Continue to roast for another 30 minutes. Stir onions around now and again and turn pumpkin slices after 15 minutes. Add tomatoes during the last 5 minutes.

Serve the vegetables either tossed together or the pumpkin arranged separately but next to the tomatoes and onion.

Note: Why are the tomatoes roasted first with the onion, removed and then added at the end? Though the onion and tomatoes will both benefit a little from a flavour trade with each other, the flavours will still remain separate. However, because the pumpkin is more porous, the pumpkin slices will pick up the flavour and juices from the tomato. Choosing to roast them together or not is a matter of desired end effect. In this case, I wanted separate flavours. Enjoy!

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