Recipe of the Week

Nathan and I are going to be in North Carolina all next week which means we're just finishing off leftovers this week. That takes planning, mind you, to make sure you finish off most everything before you leave. With that in mind, we're doing Carrots Vichy tomorrow evening to go with some halibut filets. Once I figure out how we're doing the filets, I may post that one as well, but for now this is one of my favorite ways to do carrots. Relatively healthy, very tasty, and quite easy.

Carrots Vichy
2 cups baby carrots
1/2 cup water
1 Tb butter
1 Tb sugar (preferably brown sugar, but white is okay)
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp lemon juice

Put everything in a frying pan on med-high and cover for about 30 minutes or until the water boils away (accompanied by a sizzling sound), then uncover, turn the heat down a little, and brown the carrots. Don't be afraid to let them get nice and browned in places. Mine end up a bit patchy in appearance, but they're tastier than if you don't let them get at all browned.

Um...

From a gift catalog, http://www.fields.com/signals/ to be specific:
"SALT CRYSTAL LAMPS: Salt crystal lamps cast a soft coral glow - and generate negative ions as they warm. Negative ions counteract the positive ions emitted by computers and TVs, cleaning and freshening the air."

It looks on their website like this is regular table salt. From freshman chemistry, table salt is sodium chloride. When ionized, the positive ion is the sodium and the negative ion is the chlorine. If you throw chlorine ions in the air, wouldn't they combine together to form CL2, or chlorine gas, aka the toxic fumes you get when you mix ammonia and bleach cleaners?