As soon as you started talking about carrots and figs, I thought of one of my favorites using carrots: Carrot and raisin salad. Think I’ll put that on my grocery list.
I haven’t made it in years because I didn’t want to use mayo (which I love; but is too much fat for me), until Best Foods started making a mayo from an olive oil base.
I have learned to like it; and at least I can feel a little less guilty since the olive oil is a good fat.
Coffee was good, then coffee was bad, now coffee is good, looks like coffee is going to be bad again.
Same thing with eggs.
Rinse and repeat.
Don't let current health fads and fetishists run your life. They are wrong too much, and experimenting with your body. ;)
/johnny
The first carrot/raisin salad that I made, I found in a low-fat diet cookbook back in the 1980’s. I will try to find it again - it used nonfat yogurt instead of mayo; and it had pineapple in it. I still prefer it to the fattier recipes.
I’ve lost the original recipe, but it was pretty simple so I’ll try to find an equivalent again and post it.
-JT
We haven’t had carrot and raisin salad for forever either but have been making a bowl a week for a month now. Yum. I threw in some dried cranberries once and they were pretty good.
I’ve never made carrot and raisin salad. It sounds delicious.