Joe Beef's Carrots with Honey Recipe

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Today: What to do with your wintertime farmers market haul.

You can use any type of carrot for this dish: perfect bunching carrots in midsummer, Touchons in fall, or large carrots used to feed livestock in the winter. Use anything but the dreary, bagged mini carrots carved from larger, less valuable specimens (they have more in common with sea monkeys than food). It's simple: If the carrots look sub-par that day, buy spinach. If not, cook them up like this.

Carrots with Honey

Serves 4

1/4 cup olive oil
1 bunch thyme
1 bay leaf
1 clove garlic, lightly crushed but whole
12 carrots, not too big, peeled
1 tablespoon honey
2 tablespoons crunchy sea salt
Pepper
Grated Pecorino cheese for dusting

See the full recipe (and save and print it) here.

Photo by Jennifer May