Before last weekend, I had never encountered carrots other than your basic orange variety. I stumbled upon a display of carrots including purple, white, yellow, and a red-orange at the Greenmarket and decided I needed to take a bundle home and try them out.
Overall, the flavor of each variety was pretty similar to the standard orange carrot, with the yellow a bit sweeter, the white a little bitter, and the purple tasting almost identical. You can see above that the purple carrot looked almost burnt because the color was so rich around the orange center.
Before moving on to the simple recipe, I should also note that I bought a new peeler from the famous peeler guy. He can usually be found » Read the rest of this entry «