"Eat Yer Vegetables First!"

I have to admit that I have a sweet tooth.  I've never met a dessert that I didn't like. Tricia has always had a rule in our family that you have to eat your vegetables before you can have dessert.  Benjamin and I aren't particularly fond of that rule. Today we're going to put it to the test.

We dug the last bit of our carrots from the final row of them that we had growing in the garden.  We need that area in the garden to quickly replant with potatoes.  I went out and pulled them out of the moist ground, put them in a bucket and scrubbed them clean.

Fresh dug carrots

What are we going to do with them?  We have blanched and frozen a bunch, eaten a bunch of them raw, cooked some of them and made a couple of quarts of lacto-fermented ginger carrots.  Well, it just so happens that the latest Southern Living magazine has a nice recipe for carrots - Carrot Cake, that is - with cream cheese icing!  What a great idea!

Southern Living Carrot Cake Recipe

Tricia made up a a nice looking carrot cake using our carrots and a bunch of our pecans that we have been shelling.

The icing on the cake

We couldn't wait to cut into that thing.  It was so moist and sweet and heavy!

Take a closer look:

Look closely in the photo above and you can see the shredded carrots in the cake along with the pecans.  We sliced big slabs of the delicious... um... Vegetables, and laid it on our plates.  We tried the best we could to convince Tricia that we were eating our vegetables first, but she wasn't buying it. Carrot Cake = Good stuff!