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Penny Outskirts

Joined: 18 Sep 2005
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 05 3:21 pm Post subject:

nettie wrote:

A mute for your bottom burps!!! Penny that's priceless.

"Wouldn't you explode eventually" - think you'd be OK on that one....it said "onto" rather than "into"

Thanks Nettie, but credit for finding it must go to Cab- I just loved it and felt the need to post it

Penny Outskirts

Joined: 18 Sep 2005
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 05 3:22 pm Post subject:
Jerusalem artichokes and cotton wool for tea then!

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15922
Location: Earth

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 05 5:02 pm Post subject:

Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 8655

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 05 5:29 pm Post subject:
Hmm. And if you made a sort of 'tea bag' of your 4cm of cloth, with activated charcoal filling, you could probably mute the whiff as well. By crikey, chaps, I think we've just invented something that will make us a million! fanfare The Acme "Guff-Gone" Flatulence Neutraliser. Now if only we could get a "By Royal Appointment..." warrant on the box, we'd be quids in with the American market.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 05 5:34 pm Post subject:
At the risk of dragging the discussion our of the dark crevice where it has gone to, has anyone got a Jerusalem artichoke soup recipe that they think might be good? My own recipe is a simple variant on potato soup.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45676
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 05 5:38 pm Post subject:
What's the nutritional breakdown on 'em?

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 05 6:38 pm Post subject:
Fairly typical bulk root vegetable from a nutritional perspective: https://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-001-02s01w8.html

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 05 6:40 pm Post subject:
Too late for this week, but if I order from the box scheme tonight, They'll come next week. We'll have them on Friday (weekend is safest, I fear, although i can always blame the patients, and some of them could do with corks, quite frankly!) Ho long do the effects generally last for (will I be safe by Monday?)

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 05 6:44 pm Post subject:
Normally the side effects hit me within an hour or two, and she gets them later in the evening or even in the morning. Don't last long, though. Although as I say, the curry didn't have any impact. Might be on to something there... Artichoke and cardamon soup, perhaps...

2steps

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 5349
Location: Surrey

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 05 6:50 pm Post subject:
thank you judith and cab am going to look in the market for one tomorrow

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 05 7:37 pm Post subject:
The challenge round here will be finding some on sale, never mind cooking them or surviving the after-effects. I feel a cross-border shopping trip coming on (and there is a farmers' market near Carlisle this Saturday)

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 05 4:55 pm Post subject:

Back in the right thread :
I cooked some of the artichokes yesterday evening - kept it simple for the first taste : artichoke and potato mash, with butter, spring onion, some peas, bit of sage, black pepper and a grating of nutmeg. Grand. Subtle, nutty taste that I wasn't expecting.

To tempt fate, I also ate some raw (thin slices), which I thought was quite pleasant - cross between a water chestnut and ? Going to try roasted later in the week, which Nigel Slater suggests is good.

No after-effects.

Definitely going to grow some next year. A good challenge. How're other folk getting on with theirs ?

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Mon Dec 12, 05 5:06 pm Post subject:
They grow well. I mean really, really well. The people we sold our last house to are still trying to get rid of them after 5 years. I suggest containerising them, unless you want to lose a patch of ground to them forever.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Mon Dec 12, 05 5:12 pm Post subject:
We had them peeled with some shallots, rosemary and garlic and roasted alongside a leg of lamb. Absolutely scrummy!

Lozzie

Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 2595

Posted: Mon Dec 12, 05 5:30 pm Post subject:
Did someone over in Hemel Hempstead try this challenge?

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