Some of these arrived in the vege box yesterday. I didn't click what they were until today (I just looked at them, figured they were a root vege (but not parsnips) and popped them in the fridge) and was mildly disappointed that we had no carrots arrive. So this morning as I was planning dinner (which was going to consist of roasted veges) I thought I'd take my chance with them and upon peeling and sniffing it realised it was a carrot. Tasted exactly the same and has the same texture. The kids even chomped into them without hesitation.
I have some different coloured carrot seeds I am looking forward to sowing shortly - there are purple, red, white and orange ones in there. They have many different nutritional properties due to the pigmentation - however, white ones lack any, so not sure of nutritional content of them.
(And this is when someone tells me that these aren't actually white carrots, but something else and just happen to look and taste like them!).
5 comments:
well they do say you learn something new everyday
I have only ever seen orange carrots
this might interest you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Carrots_of_many_colors.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Image:Carrots_of_many_
colors.jpg
Thanks Jen. Definitely white carrots going by that picture. The black ones are pretty freaky eh?
We're going to grow white carrots too...and squat round ones that look like fun.
We got some purple and red cosmic carrots in our CSA share this spring. They were beautiful as well as tasty! (Cosmic carrots are a heritage variety.)
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