Glazed Baby Carrots

Here's a delicious, sweet, easy way to prepare baby carrots.
Click on the pic to see how yum these look close up.

What you'll need:

big bag of baby carrots (1 or 2 lbs)
salt
butter
honey
brown sugar
lemon juice
black pepper

First you'll need to cook the carrots. Just cover with water in a pot, add some salt and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to med-low and cook for about 12-15 minutes. Drain.
In a saucepan large enough to accommodate the amount of carrots you've chosen (in a single layer) melt about 4 tbsp butter on med-low. Once melted, add around 2-3 tbsp of honey and 4 tbsp brown sugar (packed). Stir and heat until the mixture becomes nice and syrupy and the sugar is dissolved. Add the juice of half a lemon or more depending on taste. Add carrots and mix well to coat.

I like to let the carrots sit for a few minutes on each side so that they get that nice char mark on them. You have to be careful though because if you raise the heat too high, the sugar will start to burn and immediately turn bitter and inedible. Don't be hasty or impatient. Once done, add some ground pepper and serve. So good and the kids LOVE them!

Veggie Sandwich With A Twist

Sometimes even a SAHM gets too busy to cook. Events happen that are out of our control and we end up looking at each other at 6pm going "Uh, what's for dinner?". Last night was a night like that. We had to go help a family member and luckily she got these when we were done:

Yep. A Little Caesars $5 Hot N Ready pepperoni pizza. So I decided to do a mini blog about delicious sandwiches. I made one the other afternoon that I thought I'd share.

This is a cheese and veggie sandwich,(only because we didn't have any lunchmeat), and it was great! Have you ever put cilantro on your sandwiches? I had never heard of it until I was introduced to Vietnamese sandwiches a few years ago. The traditional sandwich has BBQ pork, cucumber slices, shredded carrots and daikon, raw jalapenos, and cilantro served on a baguette type bread (Bánh mì) with a side of nước mắm (fish sauce). Anyway, my sandwich has white american cheese, roma slices, red onion, green leaf lettuce, avocado, and cilantro. Added a tiny bit of light mayo and some salt and pepper. Excellente!
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