Black salsify, now what do I do?

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It looks hideous (veg box delivery)
Any ace recipes?

It makes a nice base for soup, ime. I'm going to make a salsify, leek and maybe courgette soup tonight.

Christ on a bike that stuff is hard work.

The soup was tasty, but the prep is just ridiculous, for how much food you actually get at the end of it.

wtf is it?

Root veg. Tastes a bit oystery. I think it's the basis for faux oyster soup? Not sure.

It's maybe the diameter of a cigar. You have to wash it, then boil it, then get the skin off, then prepare it as food.

Curiouser and curiouser. The ones I've got are dark, roundish and size of small turnips.
You're not doing a great PR job, NQC, I have to say. Sorely tempted to chuck them.

Hey, when the Salsify Board of Britain starts paying me, I'll do a better PR job.

I'm pretty sure salsify can't be turnip shaped. Any chance it's jerusalem artichoke or some other weirdo root veg?

Here's a picture.

The soup was pretty nice. Apparently it's a reasonably low-GI root veg, and it does make a change.

OK, so Abel and Cole say it's black salsify, but the things I've got look more like beetroots...

They do sound more like beetroot. Salsify is white inside, and if you scrub enough, you can sometimes see the whiteness. Or, obviously, if you chop into it.

The thing is, what's on the list isn't always what you get, there are sometimes last-minute substitutions, as they run out of things.

I dunno, £8 for 3 carrots, some spring greens, 4 clementines, 3 oranges and 3 misidentified beetroots... they're 'aving a laugh, aren't they?
Last week my fennel was half-rotten.

We don't have a lot of good organic local fairtrade options, so I'm reasonably happy with Abel and Cole. Oh, and I like it just appearing on my doorstep every week, because I'm lazy.

I peeled it, boiled it with surplus parsnips & spuds, then mashed, shaped into 'burgers', on floured board & fried like potato cakes.

It was OK! But I can't say I'd rush to buy it in the supermarket, or be sorry never to see any again - just like parsnip but more faff to peel. No woody core mond you.