APAD(ish) #3: Carrots

[nonelvis]

Purple and orange ones from the CSA, which is replenishing our supply faster than we can eat them. These four ended up in the carrot cake currently in my oven, and more will turn into a mustard-dill carrot side dish to be served with meatloaf ... which will probably also have a carrot in it. And even with that, I bet I still have a pound of the suckers left before we get the next batch on Wednesday.

Comments

[gritsinmisery.livejournal.com]

Hmm, it seems I have not posted the recipe for Ginger and Honey Carrot soup (http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ginger-and-honey-carrot-soup-recipe/index.html). I should do this thing. Also Carrot Orso (http://gritsinmisery.livejournal.com/493444.html#cutid2), which only takes half-a-pound of carrots when you have four or five left.

[nonelvis]

Thank you! We'll see how many I have left after I made the carrot side dish, but I suspect it'll be enough for at least one of these two dishes.

[gritsinmisery.livejournal.com]

Just read something off of one of the links in today's verticalfile that all cultivated carrots were purple until the Dutch changed things in the 17th (18th?) century. I imagine yours are the new variety developed at Texas A&M though...

[nonelvis]

Yup, that's right! I think Alton Brown covered this on an episode of Good Eats, too.

The purple ones taste exactly the same as the orange ones, but they look so much more interesting.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

Those are gorgeous. I suggest carrot cake. With the purple ones, that could be really interesting.

ETA: You ... said ... carrot ... cake ... already. Don't mind me.

[nonelvis]

The carrot cake is delicious, but the purple carrot shreds are actually a little weird in it, only because they're dark enough to look like bits of nuts, which I didn't add to the cake! I keep looking at the dark shreds and expecting them to be crunchy!

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Maybe a bit of food coloring next time? Or beet juice, if you don't want to go artificial.

[nonelvis]

Or I could just add walnuts ;)

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

why don't i have your carrot cake? i want it. i should go to your house and steal some.

[nonelvis]

It is full of fresh-ground cardamom and very yummy. We really need to work on that shipping-each-other-baked-goods through the intertubes thing!

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

i think we need transmat beams so i could appear in your house and eat your cake.

[nonelvis]

I am deeply disappointed such transmat beams do not exist, because I would like you to come here and eat cake :(

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

I WOULD EAT THE FUCK OUT OF IT NO LIE

right now i am making rice and then imma gonna stir fry some veggies and shrimp. but cake would be good after that.

[platypus]

Nice picture. Purple carrots!

[nonelvis]

Thank you! I kind of wish the purple carrots tasted different, because they're so gorgeous and alien-looking it's a little disappointing that they just taste like regular carrots.