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Posts tagged “carrot”

Five Ways to Eat: Carrots

We often take carrots for granted. The omnipresence of "baby" carrots, whittled down to bite-size by machines, as well as carrots' year-round seasonality in grocery stores, often makes us look past th...

Cool Recipe: Grated Carrot Salad with Lemon Dressing
Stay Cool!

Name: Michael Location: Copley, Ohio How are you staying cool? Grated carrot salad with lemon dressing. This recipe works great with fresh carrots from the farmers market, and the lemon dressing gives...

Carrot Cakey Cookies
Guest Post from Sara Morris of Sprouted Kitchen

This is a recipe for ye of a well-stocked pantry. However, if you go buy all of these things, I promise you will use them up on this specific recipe. I think carrot cake is the favorite dessert option...

Playing with Your Food: How To Make Carrot Flowers!

Carrot coins? Yawn. Matchsticks? Too much work! Next time you're making a stew or miso soup or gingered carrots, take a few minutes and make carrot flowers. It's simple, not too much extra work...

Recipe Review: Indian Spiced Carrot Soup with Ginger

We had a bunch of carrots to use this week and were craving something Indian-inspired. It being Escapes Month and all, this soup from Bon Appétit sounded like the perfect recipe to celebrate fa...

Good Question: Good Recipe for Vietnamese Carrot Relish?

Reader Raquel wrote in with a very specific recipe request. She asks: I was wondering if anyone knew of a good sweet carrot relish recipe? Something along the lines of the sweet carrots you get with...

How Do You Like Your Carrot Cake?

There are two requisites for good carrot cake: carrots (of course) and cream cheese frosting. We think we can all agree on that much! Beyond those absolutes lies a whole range of strong opinions, fam...

Food Science: When Good Carrots Turn Green

And this time we're not talking about "environmentally-friendly carrots"! If you've ever sliced into a freshly-baked carrot cake only to find that the shreds of carrot have turned green, you will pro...

Flickr Find: Petrale Sole with Spring Peas, Artichokes, Carrot Puree, and Coriander-Mint Sauce

Photo by Flickr member In Praise of Sardines There are some recipes and dishes that make us long for spring, and this fish dish from In Praise of Sardines makes us want spring green things so badly....