Vegetables – Carsington Water
I’ve just been looking up recipes for carrots as we have plenty (partly because of my faltering good intentions regarding soup) and because they are good for us. We have Pasties for tea because Julia spotted some on special offer and bought them. She does that. She also bought meatballs. We already had sausagemeat for me to make meatballs, so that had to go in the freezer. I don’t mind her buying stuff, but I do wish she would (a) cook it herself instead of expecting me to make something of her varied choices and (b) think about the food we already have in before she adds random ingredients. None of this applies to burgers. If she wants to bring burgers home, I’m all for it.
Carrot recipes on the internet fall into four main categories – carrot cake, orange soup, added to potatoes for rosti/fritters, and roasted. There is a subcategory of roasted – roasted with exotic names and ingredients. So tonight we are having roasted carrots with parsnips and asparagus. And you are correct, I didn’t need a recipe for that. I just wasted 20 minutes looking at useless recipes before deciding on what was already in my head.
Tonight we will be having Ginster’s Cornish Pasties on Special Offer with carrots and parsnips (oven roasted in a pretentious manner – or manière prétentieuse as we top chefs call it), seared asparagus spears (which means you can scorch them a bit without anyone complaining), and sauce brun. I like brown sauce on my pasties. I like brown sauce on nearly everything. The fact that brown sauce improves most of my cooking is, I fear, a comment on the quality of my cooking, rather than a compliment to the culinary qualities of brown sauce.
Pie, gravy and roasted veg
Hii… I have also written carrot recipes
Here :https://nichenarrative.blog/7-health-benefits-of-carrots/
Lots of veggies in the diet is good. I am a fan of minimalist cooking, and like my veggies chopped and steamed, no sauces, just plain. Carrots often get eaten as is – Peter Rabbit style. 🙂
I often eat carrots whilst preparing them for coking.
An excellent meal. You know what happens if you eat too many carrots
I believe that overdosing on carrots can make you turn orange. Or my ears grow will and I start hopping everywhere. Having said that, I’ve never seen a rabbit digging up carrots, they mainly seem to eat the greens showing above ground. It’s just that you often see Peter rabbit with a carrot and that has become my standard view of rabbits. 🙂
Now that is an interesting observation about rabbits.
Strangely, the 2018 50p design showing Peter eating carrots is actually Peter eating radishes. It’s just that we are conditioned to think of carrots and rabbits. It may be the fault of Bugs Bunny rather than Peter Rabbit now I think of it.
I like your approach to using recipes.
I take the view that I may not be able to cook that well, but I won’t add to the problem by worrying about it too much.
Very sensible. If I would have to worry about a recipe, I kindly let Mrs T cook it.
That is probably for the best. That way you avoid both the worry and the cookery. However, I suspect that as a technique it has its limits. I thought of telling Julia how anxious i was about washing up tonight. I decided not to push it.
Carrots are a staple in our house. They are delicious, versatile, and frugal. Can’t ask for much more. Now I will have to look up brown sauce to see exactly what it is.
Similar to ketchup but spicy and brown. Contains tamarind – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarind
Sounds good!
I try not to think about it. I’m sure it is full of salt and chemicals too. 🙂
No doubt. Why is it that so many of the things we love are bad for us?
It’s a mystery . . . 🙂