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Roasted Beets and Carrots
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease a baking sheet, or line it with foil. Peel and chop beets and carrots into chunks about 3/4". Toss in a large bowl with enough olive oil and salt to coat. Add a little maple syrup and minced ginger for sweetness if desired. Pour out into a single layer on the baking sheet, and bake for 35-40 minutes, turning once halfway through the cooking time.
The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two, the first
half being before the scream when it was fairly balmy and calm and
pleasant, the second half still balmy and quite pleasant for those who
hadn't heard the scream at all, but not calm or balmy or even very nice
for those who did hear the scream, discounting the little period of time
during the actual scream itself when your ears might have been hearing it
but your brain wasn't reacting yet to let you know.
-- Winning sentence, 1986 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
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