Today I am prepping a brine for the New Year's turkey. The next door neighbors have a nice smoker, and we have a $10 turkey so we are going to brine it and smoke it and pick it apart and be home early in the evening on New Year's Eve. That means it has to go in the brine tomorrow. I wanted "fresh" thyme and sage and I need horseradish for my homemade cocktail sauce. I chose today to dig that because it has been the warmest day on the forecast for quite awhile. Of course, there is still a layer of snow encased in ice. This is by no means the first time I have dug horseradish in the freezing mud. Last year I was able to dig it on a warmish, sunny day. Today... not so much.
It doesn't really feel cold out but it is melty and it sounded like it was raining when I went out because everything as far as the eye could see was thawing and dripping ice. Now, a couple hours later, it is actually raining and the ice is gone. The snow, however, has turned to glacier.
I knew there was a nice bunch of thyme ....there.....
And sage.... there....
And I had the choice of a couple of spots to dig horseradish.
It wasn't hard to find and the ground is not frozen. The most challenging part was that my kettle kept trying to skate away from me on the ice. It wasn't even really muddy.
Whatever you dig up that you don't want you just throw back in the hole and cover up. It will grow again in the spring. I gathered that mess into a plastic bag and stuck it in the hydrator. I will shred it Wednesday afternoon. There is nothing better than cocktail sauce made with fresh horseradish.
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