How To Make Charcoal

This is one of those recipes where you should not follow my directions!

In fact, don't even bother making this.

It was gross, even before I burnt it up in the oven for 9 1/2 hours.

Yes, 9.5 hours.

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The recipe is from Moosewood Restaurant Celebrates - Vegetable Pot Pie page 218

There are a lot of ingredients and a ton of steps and to make matters worse it messes up the whole kitchen.

So, if you still want to make this.

Foolish, foolish (shaking head ruefully).

Ingredients:

1 Tbs. veg. oil

1 1/2 cups chopped onions

2 bay leaves

2 1/2 cups cubed potatoes

1 cup veg. stock

2 cups cut green beans

3 cups peeled cubed butternut squash

2 1/2 cups sliced mushrooms

3 Tbs. chopped fresh parsley

1 1/2 Tbs chopped fresh dill (BAD! BAD! - This tastes horrible! Dill ruined the whole dish!)

Saute the veg. and then discard the bay leaves. Cover the veg. and set aside.

Next, make a roux or cheese sauce.

1/4 cup butter

1/3 cup white flour

2 cups veg. stock

1 1/2 cups grated cheese

salt and pepper to taste

Melt butter - whisk in flour - add veg. stock - whisk until thickened - add cheese



Pour into a 9x 13 x 2 inch greased dish
Bake at 375 degree
for 30 mins until bubbly.




Now if you are following MY recipe (please don't!)
bake for 9 and 1/2 hours.
Just pop it in, go to work and forget about it.
When you come home you will have
perfectly toasted ........

CHARCOAL!







Yum!
*sigh*