culinary discovery of the day

[coraa]

Carrot tops are edible, and taste mostly just like parsley, but a little bit like, well... carrots.

Think I'm going to put some in my tabouleh tonight!

(The risotto I made a few days ago used the tops of my beets. It's fortunate that I like greens, because I'm getting an extra bonus of them from buying veg whole.)

Comments

[triath.livejournal.com]

I wish you were my neighbor. I would totally pay you to cook for me.

I've been eating such crap lately because I've been so busy. :[

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Ha!

I should start a catering business for my friends... but I suspect trying to work around a bunch of food preferences/allergies would quickly drive me nuts. (It's fine with Pava, because he eats very nearly anything.)

[triath.livejournal.com]

I'm SO in!

I eat almost everything. After Japan, I decided to institute an "it must be dead before I eat it" rule. But, for you, I might be willing to bend that rule.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever eaten anything alive, but I'm not 100% sure, as I don't know the status of the raw oysters at the Salmon House.

[maggiedacatt.livejournal.com]

Technically, a lot of raw fruits and vegetables are still alive, but I don't think that's what you mean. ;)

[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

Some people say carrot tops are poisonous. Others say that they are delicious. In contradictions such as this, I take great comfort from the knowledge that the people who say they are poisonous have never actually eaten them.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Well, Pava and I just ate a cup and a half of them between us, so we'll see if we keel over and die. :D

(I Googled around and found enough people extolling their virtues that I felt safe putting them in my tabouleh.)