Smartie's Bar & Grill #68

I was fondled by a guy in a van offering me free french fries.....I just hate them. May be because we were forced to eat sooooooooo many growing up. Not the good instant ones mind you, but the nasty real ones. My parents would buy them by the bushel.....

 

Rutabagas are far better than potatoes. Turnips are another good substitute.

 

I like parsnips. Turnips I can do in small quantities. I like Jicama better as far as root veg in that general type

 

I like sweet potatoes better than real potatoes but not by much. I actually need to harvest mine in the next week or so. Potato soup or buried in similar chowder type eats is about the only way I don't find real potatoes kind of disgusting.

 

Pretty much anything you can do with a potato or raw. I like it raw. Cooked it has not a lot of flavor so it is a good filler that picks up flavor. raw it tastes like pears.

 

Buy the smaller ones. Microwave for a total of 12 - 16 minutes to get rid of the wax and make them easy to peel and cut up.

This is an easy recipe:
INGREDIENTS:

5 oz. peeled and diced rutabaga, ½” dice or smaller

2 oz. chopped onion

1 T. bacon grease

Dash each of salt and black pepper

DIRECTIONS: Heat bacon grease in non-stick skillet and saute chopped onion over high heat until ½ done. Add diced rutabaga to skillet and saute, turning often until rutabaga is fairly tender. This will take about 15 minutes of cooking.

This is a really good one from The Low Carb Diet:

Three Cheese Hashbrown Casserole

6 slices bacon

1/4 lb bulk pork sausage

2 cups shredded rutabaga

4 eggs

1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese

1 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese

3/4 cup ricotta cheese

Bake or pan fry bacon. Drain and crumble. Brown the sausage in a small skillet. While those are cooking, place shredded rutabaga in a microwavable bowl with 2 tbsp water. Cook on high power in the microwave for 2 minutes. Drain and cool.

In a large bowl, beat eggs. Stir in the crumbled bacon, browned sausage, all the cheeses and the shredded rutabaga.

Coat an 8 inch square casserole dish with bacon grease. Pour in the casserole mixture and smooth the top with a spatula.

Bake for 45 minutes at 350 degrees. Let cool 10 minutes before cutting into 6 serving

 

Mmmmm, bacon grease.

 

I made a banana pudding from scratch yesterday. As I was cracking the 6th egg for its yolk, I wondered what the hell possessed me to do it. It wasnt the same as I remember my mothers... her custard was thinner and not as rich. Oh well, maybe I'll try again someday.

 

You can chowder anything you want really. Don't need to limit yourself to the traditionals. Sweet potatoes are easier to grow in the red clay south. them other devils tend to like more northern soil. I grow regular potatoes but it took building a bed just for that to do it as they do not play well with heavy clay soil. I get potatoes growing out of my compost pile. They are good like that at least even if they taste like poo.

 

They seem to do better in 5 gal buckets if you keep them watered and aren't going for a billion of them.

 

Must be the Irish in me. I love potatoes, fried, mashed, scalloped, or baked. Meat and taters mmmmm...

 

Me too. And hate jicama... although Ive never had it cooked.

Cant imagine anybody hating potatoes. Thats just weird.

 

You gotta be josh'n. Potatoes are a monumental staple.
I remember reading that Potatoes { that aren't overcooked }
are somewhat brain food.Potatoes are The most Important vegetable.
One can go without Onions or carrots or tomatoes.
Without lettuce or pickles { cucumbers }
but never the Immortal and indispensable and versatile potato.
Granted a raw potato is not much fun.
But then so too is a Raw Post.
I can do Raw Posts.

 

Thick and rich is good.

 

Low carbs not low calories. Unless you are on a low carb diet limit consumption.

You could put them in an oven long enough to melt the wax and soften the surface. 45 mins 325 would probably do the trick.