C. James Strutz wrote:
> "Taemon" > wrote in message
> ...
>> C. James Strutz wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 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.
Ah, of course. But if I make tomato sauce, which is rare (I prefer
tomato's raw) I carefully remove the skins and the seeds because I
hate tomato sauce with skins and seeds :-)
I'll be sure to try the lemon juice thingy, though.
T.
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