Winter Carrots

Winter dug carrots are by far too ugly to photograph, but once you take off the rotten slimy greens,
scrub the deep orange carrots, cut around the bug bites, bad spots and cull the bad ones,
you get delightful sweet rich carrot flavors. Must be eaten soon. We roasted in the oven in
foil after spraying with cooking spray. I dug them during the thaw.
Back below freezing now and snow off and on.

Carrots are in

Carrots are in,
And we canned 14 quarts of beautiful sweet carrots.
It took us all day and was worth it to have carrots harvested after a cold period.
All the nutrients settle into the root and the sugars change with cold.
Delightful orange red color. Stains your hands and smells slightly like mild horseradish.
We also cooked up the last of the beets pulled in mid November. As long as the slugs don't do damage, we have our best roots now.
Have had a bit of indian summer and even mild 40's. Mostly Rain not snow (1-3 inches doesn't count for us) like our upper midwesterners got.
Lately we have been roasting carrots with a little sugar free maple syrup drizzled.Yum! Of course you can use the real maple syrup too.
Wish you and yours the best