Carrots!

There's a nice article about carrots in today's NY Times.  One of the accompanying recipes is vegan, and the other is easily veganizable.  And I learned some fun carrot facts.  It never occurred to me that carrots have a season, although of course it makes perfect sense when I think about it.  To everything there is a season, and why should carrots be the exception?  I find that organic carrots taste sweeter than non-organic ones, but I have to admit I always buy my carrots at the grocery store.  I haven't seen carrots at our local farmer's market.  Maybe I'll see some tomorrow, as the season is apparently here.

Carrot log cabins: there's a learning curve

Inspired by yesterday's video about the adventures of a cupcake among the vegetables, I grabbed my smallest paring knife and decided to make my own carrot Lincoln Logs:

It's harder than I thought it would be.  I was having trouble getting the edges straight, and it was hard to cut deep enough without slicing off the end of the carrot.  Maybe an x-acto knife would work better.  I gave up pretty quickly and we ate the evidence with some hummus.