Market Matters- Roasted Carrot Salad, Something From Everyone
Carrots are a year ’round item at the Hollywood Farmers Market . But this time of year particularly beautiful carrots can be found in an array of colors, sizes and shapes. I love the little round French carrots; so sweet and carroty. They are the perfect size to pop in your mouth like a little carrot bon-bon, and that’s exactly what I do with them. So this week I chose carrots for my Market Matters post. Not just any carrot however, I chose a variety of the most unusually colored carrots I could find. Because once you get out of the PigglyWiggly you will discover that there is way more to a carrot than orange. There are red carrots, purple ones, even yellow, white, and two-toned varieties. You needn’t be frightened of these carrots. They are not some mutinized hybrid with a lot of genetic hanky-panky going on. Nope, most of these carrots are heirlooms. But beauty is not the only intriguing characteristic of colorful carrots. They also have health benefits. For example you probably knew that orange carrots had high levels of beta-carotene. But did you know that the red varieties contain heart…
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