How do you eat cooked carrots if not steamed? I can see sauteed maybe in nutmeg and pepper.

Also think raw are the best.

Steamed carrots are da bomb.

I like steamed carrots with butter. And soggy mushy carrots in chicken soup. Raw carrots make me sad, it takes entirely too long to chew them, and I've no patience.

ita may be the poster child for "it takes one to know one".

But raw carrots have that outer/inner ring thing going. I used to love eating the outer ring first and then the inner ring when I was younger. Now I mostly eat baby carrots so it's much harder to do that- not that I've tried.

My husband does a killer carrot dish. Cut the carrots into juliennes, mix with julienned ginger, and cook slowly in butter until they're shriveled up into little tiny shreds of carrotty goodness. You have to shred a LOT of carrots first; I think they shrink in volume by about 2/3.

I'm off topic, having nothing to say about carrots, but Ginger you're right, I meant McDevitt. I loved Engines of God, have liked each subsequent novel a little less, and really need to track down A Talent for War.

James P. Hogan is another Big Ideas hard-sf writer. As is Frederick Pohl.

And yeah, Cherryh is consistent with her science, although she varies on whether the science is the primary issue: I agree that it was for Cyteen, whereas in other places, not so much. 40,000 in Gehenna was anthropological fiction, although most of the Alliance novels do deal with the impacts of ftl travel, cloning, and the longevity drugs. The Chanur novels are probably the least hard-sf among her sf, since they're primarily novels of culture clash, political intrigue and adventure, where the science basically dictates the background and travel constraints.

My husband does a killer carrot dish. Cut the carrots into juliennes, mix with julienned ginger, and cook slowly in butter until they're shriveled up into little tiny shreds of carrotty goodness. You have to shred a LOT of carrots first; I think they shrink in volume by about 2/3.

I'm drooling. I hope you're satisfied.

I liked Andromeda Strain well enough, but Congo utterly destroyed any positive feelings I had for the man. I will give him some credit for ER I guess. Other than that, let us never speak of him again.

Tried to read Poul Anderson and couldn't hack it. I just found it horribly boring. In the hard SF vein I like Kim Stanley Robinson and Jack Varley - do they count? Titan series was brilliant.

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They totally count, Arby. KSR is very much a hard-sf writer who also understands the social sciences. Although I have to admit I think I like his lighter stuff best -- Escape from Katmandu is great.