Cheesy Root Vegetable Bake

What do you get when you take 2 pounds of potatoes, 3 turnips, 3 parsnips, 3 red onions and a mound of cheese? A delicious cheesy root vegetable bake.

Ingredients:
2 14.5 oz cans chickpeas (or 3-4 cups home soaked and cooked)
2 lbs. small red potatoes, quartered
3 turnips, cut into chunks
3 parsnips, cut into chunks
3 red onions, quartered
2 carrots, diced
salt and pepper to taste
2 tsp dried  rosemary
1 tsp dried oregano
1 tsp dried parsley
2 tsp garlic n herb (I'd just add 1-2 cloves minced garlic if I didn't have this)
3 T canola oil, or enough to lightly coat your vegetables
1.5 cups shredded cheese of choice (I used Monterrey jack and Cheddar)
* little bit of milk, added to the bottom of pan to keep things moist (note: I did think only with the casserole veggies, but I wish I did it with the baking sheet veggies too, just to keep the chickpeas from getting too crunchy)

Preheat over to 400 degrees F. Then start dicing dicing all your fix ins, and toss chickpeas and all vegetables (aside from the onion) into a large bowl. Coat vegetable with your canola oil or oil of choice. Add your spices and toss until spices are well mixed. Add to either 2 large casserole dishes or 2 large metal baking sheet (interestingly enough, I had one of each). Bake for 45 minutes to an hour (my baking sheet veggies were good after 45, my casserole dish veggies took close to an hour, which isn't much of a surprise since it was deeper and had more to cook). Drizzle your cheese on top and bake another 3-5 minutes.

Here is half the result of my efforts:

Ralph devoured 2/3 of this and I took the other 1/3.

As for the casserole dish, I forgot to take a pic before the hungry boy took a small bit to finish up his meal (New blogger note to self: Encourage loved ones to wait until after you take pictures of delicious meals, no matter how hungry they are, haha!). Not too much to see there except that it received a majority of the cheese, and contained a slight bit more food than the tray displayed above.

So far, we have made this last two meals for me and him. The second meal for him included a bowl of soup, in addition to two platefuls of veggies. Despite that, I still have enough left for two me sized meals (about two plates full).

Up next: Granola for surprise visits by the hungry boy and an introduction to Ralph's fun loving, personalized system for rating the meals (just to give an idea of how much food is involved from meal to meal and perhaps the heaviness of the meal.) I'll keep you posted. It'll be interesting, no worries.

-Emma