Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: kyoto49 on October 20, 2009, 19:47
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Hi everyone,
Managed to grow some lovely swede and our favourite way/the only way we eat it is mashed in with potatoes, and lots of butter! However, no matter how small I cut the swede it can take up to an hour to go soft when I boil. Am I doing something wrong? What is the best way to get soft swede suitable for mashing?
Thanks for your help!
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Ooer that's not right...... mine often soften up before the spuds :unsure:
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Funny though --mainly swede soften esily but occasionally I have one that no amount of cooking will do it.
No idea why :ohmy: :ohmy: :ohmy:
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We don't dig our swede until after they've had a frost. Find this somehow makes them quicker to cook. We mash ours with lots of butter too and some garlic. We have eight rather tasty looking football sized ones waiting.
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Erm, I quite often cube it and steam it, prior to mashing with loads of butter and black pepper. I've never come across this problem before ???
Lorna. :)
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yeahh usually cubing anything before you steam it helps to cook things quicker
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My other halfs dad always does roast veg on a Sunday and just ckucks the swede in with the carrots, turnip and parsnips mmm
Paul
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One of my friends just puts the whole washed swede on a plate and microwaves it fo 9 minutes, lets it stnad for a while and scoops out all the flesh from the collapsed skin :lol: :lol:
Werks fer 'er
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My other halfs dad always does roast veg on a Sunday and just ckucks the swede in with the carrots, turnip and parsnips mmm
Paul
Swede boiled and mashed, mixed with mashed carrot and placed in an oven-proof glass dish. Into the oven with a knob of butter on the top as well as ground black-pepper.
Just as it begins to get a very slight brown crisp on the top - take it out and serve with the roast. Excellent, we think! ;)
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I agree with learner - thats how we have our swede most of the time, occasionaly we have it roasted with parsnips, potatoes, carrots, beetroot and onions - hmmmm.
If it's getting mashed then it gets cubed, goes soft quite quickly.
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mashed with carrots and butter and lots of pepper mmm I do chop it small tho' also has to be an essential ingredient in pasty pie along with onions leeks tatties parsley and skirt :lol: guess what is for tea tonite
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Despite still feeling rotten (having had a bug - not sure what) I am now feeling quite hungry after reading about all this food.
Must get down the allotment tomorrow and bring some fresh veg home. ;)
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Hope you feel better soon....I'm sure some good fresh veg will improve things :D
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Hope you feel better soon....I'm sure some good fresh veg will improve things :D
Thanks for the good wishes - appreciated! ;)
Up this morning quite early and ready to set off to the plot...... then she-who-must-be....(well you know what I mean) had decided to "do" the pots on the patio - as she does from time to time.. That was the end of the early allotment trip.
Huge half-barrel that once housed fish and plants now rolled down the garden (on its way out), pots / tubs emptied all over the place (do we really need to fill half the space with tubs?) and now she-who-must-be.... has gone off shopping. Patience is a virtue - meanwhile my swede are still sitting on the plot waiting. ::)
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O what a shame, and it's lovely and sunny today as well (well it is here) :)
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The swede are still growing steadily - Warmer winter? .... I wonder when we will get the first real frost to improve the flavour.... not that I am in a huge rush. ;)
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They reported on the BBC forecast yesterday that "on this day" last year there were frosts and snow was reported across the country. With temperatures like those we are experiencing this week, it seems hard to imagine frosts coming any time soon, but of course we never know... ::)
Lorna. :)
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They reported on the BBC forecast yesterday that "on this day" last year there were frosts and snow was reported across the country. With temperatures like those we are experiencing this week, it seems hard to imagine frosts coming any time soon, but of course we never know... ::)
Lorna. :)
Global warming? No, of course not..... :(
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They reported on the BBC forecast yesterday that "on this day" last year there were frosts and snow was reported across the country. With temperatures like those we are experiencing this week, it seems hard to imagine frosts coming any time soon, but of course we never know... ::)
Lorna. :)
Global warming? No, of course not..... :(
Hmmm. :(
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Global warming? No, of course not.....
Hmmm. :(
Best not start on this prickly subject eh? :lol:
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Global warming? No, of course not.....
Hmmm. :(
Best not start on this prickly subject eh? :lol:
Quite right MoS ;) Apart from the fact its now Waaaay off topic too :D
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:lol: :lol: :tongue2:
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:)
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Mash with butter then add zest of half an orange + 1 tbsp orange juice. :) :) :)
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If the climate was warmer do you think BBQ swede would catch on! :)
Swede on a stick? :unsure:
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I don't see why not you know, cos it's lovely tossed in oil, sprinkled with salt and chilli pepper and roasted till it's sort of charred round the edges :lol:
So yes stick a skewer through it and do the same thing for barbie...YUM
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Sounds an interesting possibility - all we need now is the BBQ weather again! ;)
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Now seriously...what chance will there be of bbq weather at the same time as having swede available to skewer :lol:
I never have any left to freeze.......so can't even try that way...o well, nice thought ..have to stick with the oven :D
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Now seriously...what chance will there be of bbq weather at the same time as having swede available to skewer :lol:
I never have any left to freeze.......so can't even try that way...o well, nice thought ..have to stick with the oven :D
Now I am avoiding any comments about "global warming" ::)
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We have barbecues at New Year... great fun :ohmy: :ohmy:
Will try out the swede idea :D
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We have barbecues at New Year... great fun :ohmy: :ohmy:
Will try out the swede idea :D
NHSS might approve but I'm not so sure those eating BBQ swede will agree... It might need a quick of something sweet to improve the taste. A honey glaze? Worth an experiment maybe... ::)
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I'd thought maybe maple syrup :D
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I'd thought maybe maple syrup :D
Sounds exotic - keep the fire-extingusiher handy! :lol:
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I have inherited a few swede on my new allotment. Some interesting ideas on this thread. Swede seems to be very common on allotments round here - I wondered what people did with them all.
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You've missed your chance for one of the more traditional uses I think ---- halloween lanterns :lol: :lol:
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I don't see why not you know, cos it's lovely tossed in oil, sprinkled with salt and chilli pepper and roasted till it's sort of charred round the edges :lol:
So yes stick a skewer through it and do the same thing for barbie...YUM
We use our bbq all the year, and swede on a metal skewer cooks quickly because of the heat from the metal, you know, abit like jacket pots with skewers through. Mrs Bouquet
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I noticed last night that Jamie Oliver avoided swede in his roast veg for Christmas & went for turnip instead. Shame.
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I noticed last night that Jamie Oliver avoided swede in his roast veg for Christmas & went for turnip instead. Shame.
I saw that programme too Leedsniner. I think some people just don't like Swede, there seems to be some sort of perception that it is only good for cattle fodder. The same attitude prevails in some parts over Kale.
I say, some people just don't know what they're missing! :tongue2: