how do you solve a problem like carrots?

[valancy]

I hate carrots, but the house is full of them - frozen, fresh, and canned. The only way I've liked them cooked is boiled on the stove with butter, roasted like with pot roast (or in the crock pot), or in carrot cake. :)

I'm no chef - my fiance does most of the cooking - but I'd like to make something that uses the carrots without tasting like carrots (which I think taste like dirt + sugar).

Can anyone recommend good recipies or methods of preparation, keeping in mind that I don't eat spicy food? I can do basic cooking, but I like to make recipies so don't let the recipe "level of complication" stop you from suggesting something, please.

Comments

[melannen]

We had a vast number of carrots to use up this winter, due to a church-dinner snafu, and discovered that if you boil and mash or puree them (or, with canned carrots, if they're unsalted/buttered, just mash/puree) you can substitute them for cooked/canned pumpkin in almost any baking recipe that uses pumpkin. (They do taste a little bit carroty instead of pumpkiny, but if you like carrot cake it should be fine.)

[libitina]

And I like them pureed (after cooking) into soup with a rich, creamy coconut milk and ginger base.