Most vegetable recipes look like a lot of ceremony, and it seems like they may be sensitive to mistakes

So instead I just cut any vegetable up, peeling anything that seems hard or stringy

Then toss in a high quality oil and salt (I use walnut oil, seems to make a difference)

And roast it from 350 to 400 for 25 to 45 minutes, turning it in the middle

Using your eyes and nose is enough to fine tune the temperature and time

This works for celtuce (make sure to peel it), lotus root, all kinds of leafy especially bitter greens, all kinds of potatoes, squash, and root vegetables, eg beets, celery root, parsnips, …

Lotus root is a real standout: it has a pleasant fragrance with just salt and oil. You don’t need any sauce

The main ones I stay away from are anything stringy, like celery, some asparagus

I’ve gotten very good reactions from people who are much better cooks than I

I keep a wiki page of the times and temperatures

I’ve tried different spices, but it doesn’t make it much better. The quality of the ingredient matters more than the recipe and cooking method — by a lot IMO

So many of these vegetables I get from the farmers market (eg amish), but also from the Chinese market

Some vegetables from Safeway and now Whole Foods are quite bad imo — they require elaborate cooking to make palatable

Probably the only thing I would tweak is adding some acid like lemon or vinegar to some, but empirically it works without

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wikipedia.org

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=bookofjoe

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

While I love a wikipedia spelunk as much as the next person, hitting the random button rarely gets you truly interesting articles. You're more likely to get a random soccer player or an unremarkable neighborhood in India. None of which would end up on the front page.

I think it's a valid question—sometimes things end up on the front page just because. And sometimes there's an actual reason that not everyone is aware of—maybe it was mentioned in a popular article, or in a movie, or a viral tweet, or whatever. And in those cases, someone will respond with "here's why people are interested in this right now."

Asking "why is this on the front page" doesn't always mean "this doesn't belong on the front page", it can mean "is there some context here I'm unaware of?"