I have a refrigerator in my basement that I use for storing the potatoes and carrots during the winter. I still have a fair amount of potatoes from last year in the fridge , and I also had the last of the carrots from last year. The carrots were starting to grow tops and hair roots, so I decided to process all of the ones that were still good. A lot of the small ones had gotten soft and rubbery but most of the bigger ones were still good. I sorted all the carrots out and put the good ones in the kitchen sink.
I washed all the carrots and cut the ends off them. It's not a lot of carrots, but they're definitely edible.
Then I peeled them and cut out the bad spots that I found.
From there, I cut them up and put them into my steamer pot.
I steamed them for about 6-8 minutes. Then I filled 4 wide mouth pint jars with the carrots for freezing, and what was left over went into a container to be used in my next crock pot stew.
The nice thing about these wide mouth pint jars is that they have a bit of a taper, so the frozen carrots will come out of the jar easier than they would with a standard mouth jar. I was able to use the plastic storage lids on the jars because I was freezing them. This seemed to be the easiest way to deal with the carrots so they wouldn't be wasted.
That's all I have for this post, thanks for checking it out!
