Carrots

You will be a star when you bake these great carrot filled muffins.  

Eat ‘em with good home made jam or some of  Canada's fabulous cheeses.   Use dried cranberries or cherries to replace the raisins, toss in a handful of nuts or even some leftover Christmas mincemeat.

I adore carrots…in every incarnation…from muffins to soup or simply steamed with butter ‘n salt.  However, they are such an “everyday” vegetable I realized how little I knew about them. After all these years of food writing, it really was time to figure them out.  I hitched a ride on Via Rail down to the Nova Scotia Agricultural College at Truro where I met Dr. Raj Lada — Carrot Expert Extraordinaire!