by Brian | Apr 5, 2015 | Recipes
It is Easter Sunday, a day devoted to the colors yellow and purple and orange. Oh, those are just the colors of heirloom carrots! If you are still hunting for an excellent side dish for your holiday meal, then this dish is just what you need. We made this for my...
by Brian | Jan 12, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Really Simple, Recipes
Carrots are an odd veggie. Yes, you can eat them raw, although it might challenge a weak crown in your mouth. Face it, carrots are dense and hard. So the tendency is to cook them long, often in the presence of lots of butter and sugar. The resulting product tastes...
by Brian | Dec 20, 2014 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, Recipes
For the end of the year feasts, why expand the range of your table with something Latin, spicy, and actually very healthy. Carrots are a super food that we just don’t see on restaurant menus or often put on our home dinner plates. Frozen food manufacturers...
by Brian | Nov 18, 2014 | Recipes
Last Saturday I lamented the obscurity of carrots on restaurant menus. Carrots are no longer exciting it seems. They are have become secondary and that is regrettable. On Saturday, the recipe was carrots + onions + parsley for a blended dish with alternating...
by Brian | Nov 15, 2014 | Recipes
You may not have noticed, but carrots are an endangered species. Oh, no, they are not going to disappear. But they are becoming the Rodney Dangerfield of vegetables. You doubt me? Okay, when was the last time you ordered carrots as a side dish at a restaurant? When...
