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Subscribe to forums RSS#11 Fri 25 Jan 13 1:36pm
mummza
Occupation avoiding housework
- From The land of song.
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Re: swede - what to do with it
mummza wrote:
Rutabaga is what a swede is called in Australia and America .
sorry I meant to write Canada not Australia, dont know why I had a brain storm like that ... tempoary brain freeze I think !!!! 
Grandmadamada ,there are a few swede recipes here
http://www.jamieoliver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=39855
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#12 Fri 25 Jan 13 1:50pm
@nGoose1
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- Member since Wed 28 Oct 09
Re: swede - what to do with it
In Sweden it's called a kålrot.
Fantastic with mash potato, next to a Haggis. Haggis, Tatties and Neeps. Burns night sorted!
Or Jamie’s Mussel dish, from Jamie’s Great Britain, I think I have seen a photo of this, when I logged in. Haggis is really cool, we had one last night. It had been many years since the last one, another childhood meal I now love. At £2 it’s going to become a regular fixture.
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#13 Fri 25 Jan 13 7:20pm
Kye
- Member since Fri 04 Apr 08
Re: swede - what to do with it
Rutabaga 
We grow them.
Chips, purée with sweet potato, soup with garlic, sliced and roasted... 
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#14 Sat 26 Jan 13 12:59am
Grandmadamada
- Member since Fri 19 Nov 10
Re: swede - what to do with it
at the end of all that thank you and best compliments by my daughter for the rich reicpes and tips collection and ..... I bought a seeds envelope 
a friend of mine told me you had sent me one last year mummza and she inherited because I did not know what they were 
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#15 Sat 26 Jan 13 11:17am
hippytea
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- Member since Mon 12 Sep 11
Re: swede - what to do with it
If you ever come across a reference to "haggis, neeps and tatties", "neep" means "swede".
I don't like them much, personally, but I'm told mashing them with butter and pepper is a good plan.
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#16 Sat 26 Jan 13 5:51pm
Grandmadamada
- Member since Fri 19 Nov 10
Re: swede - what to do with it
grazie ancora this seems to be a wikipedia swede page
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#17 Sat 26 Jan 13 8:57pm
Kiwi Kris
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Occupation Farmer
- From New Zealand
- Member since Sun 09 Jan 05
Re: swede - what to do with it
Mada! I've learnt something new today - I always thought a swede was a swede & a turnip a turnip - but they are the same vegetable!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutabaga
(Kye! And, the swede is called rutabaga, too - wow, so many names!!! 
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I once peeled a swede at my MIL's house & we boiled it/then mashed it like potatoes - like other forumers have said, Mada!
On the farm here my hubby has planted about 5 padddocks of turnips/swedes for a summer-crop for the cows to munch-on...they will begin grazing them in the next week or two, as, it's getting quite dry over here in N.Z. ...we badly need some rain!
P.S. Thanks, HippyTea, I always wondered what "neeps" were! 
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#18 Sat 26 Jan 13 11:33pm
Ashen
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Occupation Why is the Rum always gone???!
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Re: swede - what to do with it
a swede is a swede and a turnip is a turnip.. two different veg although here at least they used to called swede/rutabaga turnip when I a child but then the grocery stores switched to calling them rutabaga ..
Clear as mud 
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#19 Sun 27 Jan 13 9:17am
Pakman
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Re: swede - what to do with it
"....a root vegetable that originated as a cross between the cabbage and the turnip..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutabaga
Might explain why it so good with a cabbage side next to it
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#20 Sun 27 Jan 13 11:10am
beerforyorky
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- From Surin, N.E. Thailand
- Member since Mon 29 Dec 08
Re: swede - what to do with it
I find in general they are a little irritating, so I tend to ignore them.
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