I have a square peeler that I like much better than the long skinny kind. If the texture of the peeling is rough, or if the carrot has hair-like roots growing on it, I peel. I just wash and scrape thin skinned carrots and potatoes. I peel cucumbers most of the time unless making extremely thin slices where I won't much notice. If grating the potato raw then I don't usually peel, If I boil potatoes in their jackets I peel them after cooking. Same with microwaved potatoes sometimes. If baked with butter or oil, the skins get crisp and are quite good from the oven. I usually microwave sweet potatoes and then peel them. I like them mashed with butter and brown sugar with marshmallows melted on top, melting them on top after mashing. If oven roasting vegetables I leave the peelings on the potatoes about half the time but generally peel the carrots if they are the big ones. I never peel the baby or pieces they pass for baby carrots.
Pamela Fairchild <[email protected]> -----Original Message----- From: Cookinginthedark On Behalf Of Jeanne Fike via Cookinginthedark Sent: Friday, June 19, 2020 4:51 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Jeanne Fike <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [CnD] To peel or not to peel Hi everyone, I'm a little embarrassed to admit, but I've never gotten the hang of peeling whole carrots and how is the taste affected if one doesn't? I just shred them for carrot cake. For potatoes I leave the skins on all the time since there are a lot of vitamins and minerals in them. I only peel sweet potatoes after cooking. Hope everyone has a nice weekend. Jeanne On 6/19/20, Nicole Massey via Cookinginthedark <[email protected]> wrote: > I scrub but don't peel. > > Sent from my HAL 9000 in transit to Jupiter > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cookinginthedark [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Marie Rudys via Cookinginthedark > Sent: Friday, June 19, 2020 12:21 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Marie Rudys <[email protected]> > Subject: [CnD] To peel or not to peel > > Hello, All! > > Do you peel your regular sized carrots or leave them unpeeled? When > he was alive, my friend Howard never peeled his carrots, but cooked them unpeeled. > > Red potatoes, I cook them with the skin on. I hardly buy russet > potatoes anymore. > The toughest thing to peel is ginger root because it ots irregular shape. > I find the best way to do it is with the mandoline on the thinnest setting. > Still, some spots are hard to get at with a regular potato peeler. I > do the best I can. > > I know baby carrots are already peeled and ready to go. I got some > regular-sized carrots for a change and they are slender, so when I > take the peel off, there is hardly enough carrot to taste. > > I hope I didn't open a can of worms. > > Best, > Marie > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
