CARROT AND YACON SALAD

  This is a favorite winter salad of ours.  It keeps a couple days in the fridge so we often make a big batch. 
  Shred about equal amounts of carrots and yacons.  Add some finely chopped ginger root, a small amount of apple cider vinegar and honey, a pinch of salt and optionally some chopped dried figs (or raisins would probably fill a similar role) and walnuts.

Sweet, sweet winter carrots

   Winter carrots are the best.  We grow both a spring crop and a winter harvested crop of carrots.  And by far, the winter carrots are sweeter.  They are sweeter than you thought a carrot could be.  We seed them in mid to late August.  By November, some of them have sized up enough to pull up.  But they keep so well in the ground, we're not in a hurry to get them out.  During a really cold winter spell, we cover them with hay mulch.  But for the most part we enjoy them fresh dug through late February at which point we try to have them all dug.  We then store them in the fridge where they continue to keep very well.