Roasting and Grilling Vegetables

The simplest way to bring out the flavor of vegetables, other than eating them fresh and raw, is to grill or roast them. Traditionally, most of us were taught to use water to cook vegetables, through boiling, blanching, or steaming. The trouble is that when you cook with water, flavor drains away from the vegetables into the water, and as a result, you have to add flavor back to the poor depleted things through the use of rich sauces or other toppings. Steaming does the least damage, but it also contributes nothing to flavor. I rarely use water or steam to cook vegetables anymore.