BIZZY BAKES

I have a feeling that root vegetables have made it back into popularity big-time  over the  last decade. This includes those that I think were not so popular such  as parsnips and  turnips. You may have noticed that I am using parsnips often, these days. There is a  subtle but definitive flavor from them and it is one that  we like. Most often, they are one of the vegetables for my chicken soup but now I also make root vegetable soups and casseroles. T his time, I wanted to make a kugel with them and could not find exactly what I was looking for so I threw together a little bit of this and a little bit of that and made these  mini kugels that were great as well as adorable. Mini Root Vegetable Kugel Ingredients: (all vegetables should be peeled) 2 zucchini, grated 2 carrots, grated 1 large turnip, diced 2 parsnips, diced 1 huge onion, slice thin and then rough chopped 3 eggs salt and pepper to taste ...

I have an oven that you can set to time out after a certain amount of time and I use that, almost every time, I use the oven.  It gives me a chance not to burn my cakes and other dishes.  I have a nasty habit of putting something in the oven and walking away to do the wash or mark papers.  Without the timer, I don't have a chance of true success in my baking. In the recent months, there were a few times, I forgot to set the timed feature and berated myself for such carelessness.  After this happened several times, I decided, it could not be me and had to be the oven.  I mentioned it to my hubby who checked and said, it appeared the oven was working just fine. Friday, when I was making these root vegetables, I came back to well cooked vegetables with some blackened parts.  This time, I knew I had set the timer.  Proof came Friday night when I set the timer for dinner to go off in an hour.  My daughter went to get the first oven course and ...