Ok so have just put a root veg in my soup from greece ,have no idea what it is

[melsy]

It looked very much like a Jerusalem artichoke but much bigger. They didn't have any swede for my very-needed-all-been-ill chicken soup , so Ive experimented and tried something else!!!

Its sort of parsnipy potatoey ?????????

was it mogo/casava/yam type thing?

celeriac?

hmmm might be , it had a long name begining with c I think.

no isnt celeriac thats round isnt it ??

celeriac?

well this is celeriac and {http://www.silsoe.cranfield.ac.uk/iwe/research/cassava.gif\this} is cassava. I think cassava looks more like jerusalem artichoke.

cassava

looked similar , but longer and doesntn taste very celery like.

i was told in shop to break it rather than cut , oherwise it goes soggy????

hmm, defo not cassava then, you practically need a bloody hacksaw for that, no chance of breaking it.
I can picture soem things, but not sure what they are!

might have to phone them , its going to bug me now , even though Ive used it already.

See I keep feeling the celeriac thing lol, but it tastes really really plain. Theres no mistaking celery taste.

kohl-rabi? Or cardoon?

kohl rabi

hmmmm dont think it's kohl-rabi as they're greeny and have tentacle like bits sticking out of the side. And you wouldn't be able to break it.

Dont know cardoon - isn't that a squash-like thing?

intriguing!

it does sound like yam but that doesn't begin with C

it is isnt aDad !

should have said a greek word in a c .

calabrese?

perhaps it was a very ugly potato (but with a beautiful personality)

calabrese looks broccoli like though

calabrese is broccoli as most of us know it...

they look a tiny bit different to regular broccoli. like broccoli on acid.

taste the same

ok after all that I called the shop , it was driving me loon lol.

its a veg called

Cologassi

greek name with no english definiton

absolutely never heard of it!!