Roasted Vegetable Fritters
Veggie fritter with yogurt/sour cream sauce Wandering through a grocery story is the happiest of places for me. Filled with infinite possibilities of things I might prepare. Delicious things. Salty things. Simple things. Complicated things. I seldom look at plantains and only see plantains. Instead, I look at plantains and construct a meal of coconut black beans and brown rice with fried plantains and sliced avocado and pico de gallo. It isn’t just a thing- it is a crucial part of a something larger- necessary scaffolding to craft a larger building. Lately, though, I’ve grown bored. A strange fascination with ancient grains (pearl barley, millet, and faro so far) has left me in a rut of boiled grains with roasted veggies and green gravy to finish it off. Hearty. Delicious. But also too routine for me squeeze any joy out of it right now. This afternoon I lamented how sad my Instagram feed has become that nothing is striking my fancy- nothing has inspired me to drop ev