Remember a few years ago

when I was intentional about eating fresh during the summer?

Well.... I'm baaaaaacccccckkkk.

 At least I'm going to make an effort - lol.

We love the fresh veggies of summer!

This week we bought beets, squash, lettuce, 

new potatoes and sweet potatoes.

YUM.

So here's what I did:

Cubed everything up and roasted in the oven -

That's the squash on one side and chicken and onions on the other...

I drizzled a little olive oil over it all....

I also added the new potatoes and sweet potatoes to the mix after getting them 

started in the microwave first....

While the chicken and veggies were in the oven, I made the salad.

Y'all know this is a favorite of mine - 

 Fresh roasted beets [wrap in foil to bake and use plastic gloves [[or a grocery sack in this instance]] to peel, using a spoon - ha] then slice over greens and add some goat cheese and balsamic vinaigrette. Oh. My.

So. Good.

So here it is before we served it up - 

It didn't take much time to make it look yummy.

 The result - delicious. 

And one could argue - why go to the trouble to put it ON the skewer 

if you're just going to take it OFF to eat it -- 

Presentation, it makes food look yummy!

2nd meal: white beans and cornbread with fried squash -

Always a favorite. 

And I still have a few squash left to grill up and serve with the extra chicken I cooked while the oven was going.  It's really not so hard to cook a good meal at home...