General Chat

Has anyone ever tried salsify?

I would never dream of pushing those sale at all ever never never
(salsify.com)

Now,who wouldn't know that? We have probably done more for the sales of salsify in the last ten minutes than all the advertizing that has ever been done for it before.

about ten seconds

How long is your wee bit exactly?

simmer for a wee bit and then saute

How do you cook salsify?

how bloomin' cosseted do we want to be!?
Will we get cookery lessons now as part of our council tax return?
Maybe they could also show me how to change a light bulb.

Cooking instructions sound like a good idea.I'm sure a lot of veg is overlooked because people do not know what to do with it.

red kidney beans. RED KIDNEY BEANS!!!!!!
They always forget the red kidney beans!
They are beanist to the extreme
in a reddy kidneyistic sort of way

The perfect veg would taste like a nice strong stilton & the perfect fruit like a bar of chocolate..........blow what it looks like!

I often wonder how they can be so picky about something like that, especially when you think that there are parts of the world where people are starving and wouldn't care about if the food was an unusual shape as long as they could get it.

My dad's been growing radishes and cabbage and lettuce and spring onions this year - the first lot of radishes we pulled up were probably double the size of the ones you get in the supermarket. (In fact the supermarkets would probably have rejected them for being an "abnormal" size.)

The European Commission says it wants to loosen the rules that prevent knobbly fruit and vegetables being sold alongside more shapely examples.
But the Commission says its efforts to simplify EU legislation have been resisted by some countries.
The complicated marketing rules have spawned long-running debates about straight bananas and cucumbers.
The Commission says misshapen fruit should be sold "with some sort of label for use in cooking".
"In an era of high prices and growing demand, this makes more sense than just throwing them away," said a statement from the office of Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel.

Full article & Video:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7457218.stm