Comments on: Purple (Red) Carrots from Down2Earth

By: tindera

tindera — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:40:30 +0000

beautiful carrots. when you cut it into half, mm, it looked more interesting to eat. excited to get this kind of carrot. i will see them this sunday.
thanks, jb, for liking the red tray. i heard they use natural dyes to color their trays.

By: kakesandkandles

kakesandkandles — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:49:19 +0000

I must confess I have been a lurker for a few weeks/months now. I started to read all your posts and am up to at least half of 2006 simply because they were all so engaging. I have enjoyed all of them but love the “rants” most of all. I have not been to the Phillipines for at least 40 years but it’s funny how you realize what culture is most dominant when food is involved. So, thank you for your blog, it is a joy to read and I for one appreciate it very much. It’s like I’m there and maybe one day I will be there again. Meanwhile, keep it going…………..

By: Mae

Mae — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:06:24 +0000

Looks really delish. How do you make the dip for that?

By: EbbaBlue

EbbaBlue — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:17:00 +0000

I used to plant purple okra. When you cook them, they turn green like the regular ones. I had seeds send to Pinas in Quezon Province and they too planted them and successfully got some harvest. But they were little ones and did not produce next generation seeds to plant. Also my cousin said they taste different. I don’t know if it’s just the soil there or just in my cousin’s head. Anyway, haven’t seen this color of okra here in my neck of the woods.

By: ConnieC

ConnieC — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:52:08 +0000

Off topic again MM, but I was thinking of you and all pork lovers and the news of porkalypse. Not sure how much climate change is affecting swine production in ‘Pins but my nephew who has a pig farm is already complaining of the high cost of raising them.

and here’s some entertaining gifs for bacon lovers:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/26/bacon-shortage-9-amazing-gifs-help-you-get-through-porkocalypse_n_1916891.html?utm_hp_ref=technology#slide=1572386

By: Khew

Khew — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:23:48 +0000

Yes, carrots were originally purple. Orange ones are the result of selective breeding and ended up dominating the market as well as being the benchmark. Come to think of it – sort of like the media benchmarks and one track standards of human beauty. LOL!

By: Irene

Irene — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:01:56 +0000

Didn’t orange carrots become dominant because Dutch growers cultivated them in tribute to William of Orange?

The purple carrots are pretty. What kind of dip did you prepare?

By: JB

JB — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 04:26:44 +0000

Beautiful! Love the contrast between the bright orange and the muted red. Nice red tray too. :)

By: joey @ 80 Breakfasts

joey @ 80 Breakfasts — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 06:00:02 +0000

I loved these too! Grabbed a bunch when I spotted them from Down to Earth…roasted mine with honey and sea salt :) Although I peeled mine so lost the purple color :( Next time will try this!

By: Gigi

Gigi — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 04:10:31 +0000

I used to order our weekly veggies from Down to Earth but had to stop b/c service was a little bad. No advance info on what the “veggies for the week” are, and for several weeks, we kept on getting “grass-like” vegetables that not even our household help would eat. I know their selection in the Salcedo market is way better, but for the weekly home deliveries (at least during the season that we were ordering last year), the selection was really poor.