Chey’s Lounge

Anyone else missing Jimmy Carter today? Just me? No, not just me for once? Cool.
As a joke and seriously. I miss Jimmy Carter.

Okay so I was really feening to make little carrots a few days ago. I was so disappointed for a while bc I couldn’t find exactly what I wanted and I don’t currently trust myself to trim the carrots exactly that way myself. But then the day I finally decide to grab the next best thing (a medley of different colored baby carrots) I look across the produce section, a spot I don’t really check, and I see them. We lock eyes from across the room. 

I wasn’t sure of exactly how I wanted to go about it, so I just did something. Here’s what I did. I steamed them for a while. Once they were done, I drained the water bc I put too much. After that, I added butter, the tiniest drizzle of olive oil, three basically dried up springs of thyme, the smallest little piece of rosemary I had left that had like 8 leaves on it total, and some minced garlic. More like chopped, if we’re being honest. I let that to chill for a second before adding maple syrup, some honey, and a dash of brown sugar. I used red pepper flakes and paprika, I could’ve used cayenne, but I was a little nervous. At some point after all of that, I squeezed in lemon juice and then I let it simmer and reduce. I honestly messed with the heat a bit for this lol. Once it was close enough to my desired stickiness level, I topped them with maldon salt and some fresh chopped parsley. 

Viola!

I forgot to take pics for a hot sec. As you can see. But 2 remained. Just call it Noah’s Car-Ark