Monday, September 30, 2013

Gratitude Monday -- The Carrot Patch

Photo does not include the carrots I am storing in the fridge.

These bags, some 20 of them, are filled with carrots.
Husband grew them. He brought home nine and a half five-gallon buckets full of them on Saturday.
He washed them. I chopped them.
I still have to blanch them and find room to freeze them.
It's work, but it's good work, and I am looking forward to homegrown carrots through the winter.
I love carrots and I am grateful for each and every one of them.



15 comments:

solarity said...

Oh, beautiful! I do not love carrots that much, but: pot roast!

Mary Anne in Kentucky

Leah J. Utas said...

Aye, Mary Anne. Pot roast.

Tabor said...

I thought that zucchini was the abundant vegetable. I see lots of carrot cake, carrot soup, and maybe some carrot juice?

the Bag Lady said...

Our carrot harvest was similar. I have yet to do much with them because I also had an abundance of tomatoes, which will go bad far sooner than the carrots!

Crabby McSlacker said...

Just toss in some sticks and you've got a great nutritional/motivational program!

(And that is a hell of a lot of carrots. Yikes.)

Leah J. Utas said...

You see well, Tabor.

BL, tomatoes can be frozen directly without any of that silly blanching. Go tomatoes!

That's one way to look at it, Crabby.

Red said...

And I make a couple of recipes of carrot soup. they're big recipes so I freeze lots of soup.

Leah J. Utas said...

Yummy. Any tips or tricks, Red?

Chris said...

I love carrots, especially raw or in stew. They are always in the juice we grind up as well.

Leah J. Utas said...

I love 'em raw, too, Chris. Straight from the garden.

Bossy Betty said...

Oh! I see some carrot juice in your future. They are beauties!

Leah J. Utas said...

Thanks, Betty.

David Cranmer said...

There's a farmer (and seller) closeby that specializes in all kinds of dishes and deserts originating from carrots. Fresh produce that we appreciate... and are grateful.

Hilary said...

My eyesight is improving just looking at this post. ;)

Leah J. Utas said...

David, carrot desserts are getting to be a specialty with me these days.

Hilary, good one.