Tuesday, August 14, 2007  Glazed Turnips for One  Glazed Turnips
I feel a bit like the turnips pictured above, sticky and slighly
singed. It's about eleven hundred degrees out there. And a bit
more in here. Last night I tried to make ice cream and it
wouldn't freeze. Someone tell me about the housing situation on
the North Pole, please?  Mmm, fresh garlic  If it weren't so
infernally hot, I'd tell you about these glazed turnips, or
turnip to be precise as I was feeding only myself on Saturday.
But what can you do? Have some shots from Kauppatori
(Salutorget) instead.  Kauppatori market   One end of the market
is a tourist trap full of horrible T-shirts and reindeer hats
(which reminds me to cook Rudolf soon, I think we have some in
the freezer), and there's a food court where fried vendace (yum)
battles paella (um), but the part closest to Esplanadi is a
genuinely fabulous market with wonderful if fairly pricey
produce.  carrots & beets  sea of peas  None of this has
anything to do with glazed turnips, excep