It's a long story, but I'm once again growing carrot tops in saucers of water.
A by-product is that i end up with fresh leafy green shoots.
I know that I can chop them up and add them to a salad dish.
The taste is slightly bitter, which suggests (evolution) a mild toxicity.
To which the usual solution is boiling or baking.
Just curious ...
What Else are you doing with Carrot Tops?
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- PlutoniumLounger
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What Else are you doing with Carrot Tops?
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- GoldLounger
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Re: What Else are you doing with Carrot Tops?
Have you Googled "Carrot Tops edible" without the quotes?
Lots of hits and some with recipes!
Lots of hits and some with recipes!
I am so far behind, I think I am First
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Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living
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- PlutoniumLounger
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Re: What Else are you doing with Carrot Tops?
Yes, Dave; I did that yesterday.DaveA wrote:Have you Googled "Carrot Tops edible" without the quotes?
I'm now interested in what my peers are doing here in the lounge's kitchen!
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- gamma jay
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Re: What Else are you doing with Carrot Tops?
Well, if you are interested in my opinion, i have always eaten only the bottom part, exclusively, and with modest gusto.
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Rudi
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- GoldLounger
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Re: What Else are you doing with Carrot Tops?
I agree with Rudi, I get enough greens from other plants that taste much better.
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- gamma jay
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Re: What Else are you doing with Carrot Tops?
Excluding Brussel sprouts
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Rudi
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- cheese lizard
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Re: What Else are you doing with Carrot Tops?
I use the shoots for juicing: carrots, bit of ginger, radish, garlic, apple, parsley, shallots, fresh pepper leaves and carrot tops. The apple offsets the bitterness of the tops.
Cheers, Claude.
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- PlutoniumLounger
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Re: What Else are you doing with Carrot Tops?
Ah! Thanks, Claude.Claude wrote:I use the shoots for juicing: carrots, bit of ginger, radish, garlic, apple, parsley, shallots, fresh pepper leaves and carrot tops. The apple offsets the bitterness of the tops.
Juicing as in "Popping the lot into a high-speed blender"?
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- cheese lizard
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Re: What Else are you doing with Carrot Tops?
No, we've got a slow speed juicer, juice lasts longer due to absence of lots of tiny air bubbles; (think oxygen).ChrisGreaves wrote:Ah! Thanks, Claude.
Juicing as in "Popping the lot into a high-speed blender"?
Cheers, Claude.
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Re: What Else are you doing with Carrot Tops?
Thanks Claude.Claude wrote:...(think oxygen).
It's oxygen that seems to be the death of all living things (grin)
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