Last night around 10pm Josh and I were sitting here working on the website (and eating some amazing new cookies that we made) and we realized that we had completely forgotten to eat dinner! We debated about going to get some pizza from this new restaurant that we’ve been obsessing over, but then we realized that we had just gone shopping the night before and gotten ingredients to make a bunch of new recipes. So, we opted to make this roasted vegetable ziti.
We used garlic, tomatoes, red and green peppers, artichoke hearts, and red onions and we put them all on a cookie sheet and doused it with olive oil. Then we roasted it for about 20 minutes, and the whole house smelled amazing. It’s crazy how roasting vegetables brings out such amazing flavors and smells. We put a few handfuls of spinach in there, stirred it around, and put it back in the oven for another 10 minutes, but some of the spinach got really dry and flaky. So we took it out of the oven once the veggies were done roasting, mixed it in with the cooked ziti, and added a few more handfuls of fresh spinach. We also added some chopped calamata olives and reheated everything to cook the spinach. Some salt, pepper, and a sprinkle of red pepper flakes and it was done! It was…soooo good. I just woke up but I think I’m going to have the leftovers for breakfast. We’ve never roasted garlic before but it made it a mellow, mild flavor that is just so good.
I would seriously recommend making this recipe, and from now on we’ll probably be making a lot more recipes using roasted garlic and vegetables.
That’s my kind of dish! Looks great!