Misadventures in shopping & what the hell do I do with all these?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I buy the majority of my groceries online, and I absolutely love it. They deliver the drinks all chilled (genius), they deliver newspapers too (genius), and even better all the cat litter, bottles of water and back-breaking boxes of washing powder that make a normal trip to the supermarket such a pain in the arse (woo-hoo!). When the door bell bing bongs I’m a happy happy lady (they even carry it to the kitchen for me… g-e-n-i-u-s).

So far I’ve made maybe 25 orders, and not made any errors at all in my ordering. I came to believe I was a bit of a wiz at the old ‘sainos.com’, and sad to say I was a little cocky, perhaps even laissez faire in my clickety clicking and debit card swiperoony. But, its not rocket science eh? Anyone can do it…

Well… anyone that is - unless you’re me. And you’re not paying enough attention to checking the delivery due to the delivery mans unexpected hotness.

uh-oh…

What I wanted to order were 2 carrots.

What I found last night as I put the shopping away…

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oops…

That’s a lot of carrots. That’s 2 KILOS of carrots…

What the hell do I do with all of these?! I can make soup etc, but I’m wondering if the SMDB can collectively come up with some more entertaining/better recipe suggestions? If so, I’ll do it over the weekend and post pics Monday.

So far I’m thinking about some kind of squirrel assault course, as I need one of those. (I don’t mind if he eats all the bird food - but he should have to work for it…) But any suggestions would be good! help!

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Carrots sliced in half lengthwise, sprinkled with a bit of ground cumin, a trickle of olive oil and roasted in the oven…

Yummmmy.

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I’m not a big fan of carrots. But my dad buys them solely for the purpose of feeding them to the rabbits and squirrels in his yard. Can you get rid of a few that way?

Carrot cake is also a nice alternative.

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Donate the carrots to the local food bank.

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What’s up, Doc?

Slice them and freeze them in suitable-sized vac-sealed portions.

Dice them and simmer in chicken broth to make carrot soup.

It’s got to be snowing somewhere on the planet. Ship 'em there for use as snowman noses.

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The Weirdest Looking, Best Tasting Carrot Soup In The Universe

3 T butter
1 pound ground beef or turkey
1/4 cup minced onion
melt butter in deep skillet, brown meat and onion. Add:
1 cup water
3 cups tomato juice
2 10.5 ounce cans condensed cream of celery soup.
Stir into meat. Add:
1/4 tsp pepper
1/8 tsp marjoram
1 bay leaf
1/4 tsp garlic salt
1 tsp sugar
2 cups shredded carrots.
Stir, cover and simmer for 1 hour.

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They freeze well, and can be shredded into all sorts of dishes.

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Make friends with someone who has a horse or ten…