"Taemon" > wrote in message
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> C. James Strutz wrote:
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>> "Taemon" > wrote in message
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>>> Come on people, help me out here! I've got carrots in my vegetable
>>> subscription this week. I'm not too fond of carrots - too sweet for
>>> my taste. Usually I, er, juice them in my, er, juicing machine
>>> (what's the word?) but does anyone have recipes? Recipes! Recipes!
>> I always get a lot of carrots in my vegetable subscription too. They
>> tend to pile up in my refrigerator until I get around to using them.
>
> I like the juice. Carrot juice is very soft and creamy and sweet. But I
> would like to have some other possibilitiets.
>
>> I use them for a few things: grating them onto salads, eat them raw
>> with hummus on weekend road trips, use them in soups and stews, use
>> them to sweeten tomato sauce.
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> It's the sweetness I don't like :-) In juice it's okay, but that's partly
> because one can down juice so quickly :-)

No, you use the sweetness of the carrots to counteract the bitterness of the
tomato seeds if you leave them in the sauce. Of course, using a food mill to
remove the tomato seeds will obviate the need for carrots.