With summer comes my favorite make ahead harissa carrot salad! It’s light & crisp, sweet & spicy, packed with fresh herbs, lemon zest & a hint of garlic. Plus, it gets better with the time it spends in its dressing, so you can keep it for several days in the fridge. And my husband hates […]
Carrot Cake Oatmeal with Maple Frosting
Full disclosure: this carrot cake oatmeal is one of my signature, sneaky oatless oatmeals with hidden & non-detectable secret veggies! In this case, there are two different vegetables masquerading as grains: spaghetti squash for texture and carrots, because carrot cake oatmeal. You may not believe me, but: you would never know about the veggies if […]
Roasted Carrots with Green Olive Dressing
So I have this silly thing about the recipes I share here being “blog worthy”. Whatever the hell that means. In some ways it makes its own odd kind of sense: I don’t want to be yet another blogger in a sea of bloggers telling you all about how my roast broccoli is somehow life changing. […]
Parsnip Carrot Mash with Lemon Zest & Thyme
When I was a kid, one of my favorite things in the world to eat, bizarrely, was carrots. I’m not talking carrot sticks here, people. I actually loved mashed carrots, as long as they were made the right way: doused in real butter and with plenty of black pepper. When I first learned to make […]
Citrus and Sage Roasted Baby Carrots
Sometimes I make a scaled down version of these if I’m craving a sweet snack without resorting to fruit. Or if I’ve already eaten all the fruit in the house. It happens. The first time I made these roasted baby carrots, however, was as a side because I’d just gleefully returned home from grocery shopping […]
Leftovers Love: Carrot Scrambled Eggs
Ok, I admit, carrot scrambled eggs do sound a little weird. But hear me out. For brunch this morning I sauteed some onions and then added in a couple of spoons of the leftover carrot dip I had still in the fridge. Once that had cooked through for a few minutes, I added some eggs […]