Beware of the beetroot!

[ColinJ]

[QUOTE 3322986, member: 259"]It tastes like celery, but more so. You can have it mashed, roasted, in a salad, or as chips. I love it and it's dirt cheap at the moment.[/QUOTE]
I do like celery, but I wonder if I like it that much! Still, no harm in giving it a try ... I might pick one up next time I do my market shop.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

[QUOTE 3322976, member: 259"]I've advanced way past beetroot and I'm doing a whole roasted celeriac for Sunday dinner. [/QUOTE]
have you tried braised fennel in white chocolate? yummy

 

[up hill struggle]

I eat lots of peas, but I've never seen it go green.

Guinness on the other hand.......

turns your crap black & the last bit out is white for the head in guessing

 

[summerdays]

have you tried braised fennel in white chocolate? yummy

Weird? Do you have a recipe, not that we have any fennel at the moment other than inch high plantlets.

As someone said squash is fantastic, and we had a honey bear one roasted last night. Here are most of the ones we grew this year:

And we had roasted beetroot too!

 

[summerdays]

Variety wise there are Hooligan, Winter Festival, Blue Banana, Greek, Honey Bear, Acorn, Sunshine (second generation so much larger than their parent), Barbara? And I can't remember the name of the white ones at the front.

The acorn ones don't keep very well so we are eating those first and any that have skin blemishes.

 

[Fnaar]

have you tried braised fennel in white chocolate? yummy

LOve fennel, love white chocolate, but together? Evil woman, you.
Gently fry sliced fennel in a wee bit of olive oil for no more than a minute. Bung it on a plate. eat it as an appetiser.

 

[Fnaar]

[QUOTE 3323037, member: 259"]Nice gourds![/QUOTE]
That's what I was saying to Miss Goodbody only this morning, when she showed me the fruits of her garden.

 

[Fnaar]

[QUOTE 3322986, member: 259"]It tastes like celery, but more so. You can have it mashed, roasted, in a salad, or as chips. I love it and it's dirt cheap at the moment.[/QUOTE]
I hate raw celery, but like its flavour if sliced thinly and gently fried (I put it in my pasta sauces)... does roasted celeriac taste anything like raw celery? If not, I may have a go at roasting one.

 

[uphillstruggler]

A slice of beetroot is an essential part of a hamburger in NZ. Or at least it was, the burger chains may have changed the landscape.

Ah yes, I could reminisce....

I still model my home prepared burgers on a kiwi burger that I had in a macci d's in a little town near Auckland 15 years ago, beetroot and an egg plus the usual goodies.

lovely.

if I wasn't roasting tomatoes for lunch, I may have had to have one on the strength of just thinking about them.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Apologies to OP -

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trim top off fennel, cut fennel in half keeping root on... (you need it to hold together the fennel) - this is a flat half cut to keep fennel flatter not rounder - if this makes no sense, sorry...
cook over medium heat in (good knob of) butter and (plenty) olive oil... you need to braise it (so hot initially and then drop temperature - don't burn the butter) - then cover and lower heat for 30 mins or so (can be 45 or 60 mins - depends on how long you need/want!) til quite soft and starting to brown on bottom (can turn over if you want to aid cooking)... periodically spoon butter/oil mixture over fennel. add as a much white chocolate as you want (!) to the pan when the fennel is almost completely cooked (it will be soft)... melt said white chocolate and cook slightly so it starts to burn/brown but not actually burns.... serve immediately with as much chocolate sauce over the fennel as you want...

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[machew]

Skippy's list
145. I should not drink three quarts of blue food coloring before a urine test.
146. Nor should I drink three quarts of red food coloring, and scream during the same.

 

[byegad]

A friend of mine failed the Occult blood test, twice, and ended up on a table in hospital having a camera inserted where the sun don't shine. Nothing was found and then the doctor asked a question that my mate would have liked to here earlier....

It was a question about diet.

'You haven't eaten Black Pudding before your OB tests have you?

The answer was of course yes. He loves the damn stuff and eats it nearly every day.