The Bluestocking - Raiders of the Lost Sparp

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<peeks head in>

I’ve had an apology from the police but to get it I had to have a complete mental health crisis. and tell the fucking bastard police to do their fucking bastard jobs or I would sue the fucking arse clean off them. And they would have my blood on their hands. And a dossier setting everything out - with names and dates and times -was in the hands of my children to send to Panorama. And there would be collateral damage because I would take every fucking bastard who didn’t do their job down with me.

However. The Taz is back and rattling cages.

But hells bells I shouldn’t have to.

Swede is ok mashed with carrots and a lot of butter but it’s not something I’d choose. Turnips (the white/purple ones) neither.

rutabagas used to be a mysterious item listed in the ingredients of HP sauce (surely the most British of condiments with its picture of Big Ben?) but never seen on greengrocers shelves.

I’m so sorry.
And anything else we can offer you

Taz, well done, so sorry it needed doing.

Swede done in the microwave. Whole. Screaming swede it’s called. I can’t google right now but google it. You can just scoop it out of the skin. Changed my life.

Thank you all.

im going to Scotland for a long weekend and im going to hunt haggis. So there will be clapshot and cranachan but no Glayva (I hate it). Loads of nice peaty malts will fit the bill nicely.

Rutabagas is American for swede.

Thanks @Britinme , I though it was. Turnips, neeps, rutabagas. I wonder what they call them in Sweden (or do they like my old Dutch neighbour, call them cattle food and express horror at people eating them)?

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https://skintchef.co.uk/singing-swede-microwave/

Dried hands and suddenly phone is working. 🤣🤣

Must go and do stuff because I'm off to friend's book launch, no doubt it will be a disappointment, they never crack a bottle of champagne over them OR use a trebuchet.

Tax what a fantastic link thanks

I use the heart instead of the laugh emoji but that may encourage the entity formerly known as BoiledBeetle.

Applied for my third job this week.

Doctor says the antibiotics are not normally associated with fatigue, so I'm wondering if it's a build up of trauma from not having abjob, the ankle operation and the infection.

Sorry to hear of your troubles, Taz, I hope it has some effect.

I used to eat a lot of swede as a poor student. I should try Taz's recipe next time I cook it.

I imagine it would work well for butternut squash which is notorious for being tough to cut.

You know I’ve never tried it with butternut squash but I wonder would it work. Will try the next time I get one.

i have never even heard of rumbledethumps, but having googled it, I want to thank you for bringing it to my attention. 😀 It sounds like just the kind of tasty, savoury comfort food DH and I enjoy in the darker months.

Makes note to add swede and savoy cabbage to next shopping list...

First on my list:
Taz - well done, but what an unforgivable shame that you had to go to such lengths to get them to do the right thing.

Myrtle - if the antibios aren't causing the fatigue, hopefully that means that it's just fatigue as in your body and mind have been through a lot, and you're exhausted, and with lots of rest and good food, you'll recover. That's a better prospect than that you're going to be like that for the duration of the antibios.
I was knocked sideways for weeks on end by a mere knee operation, just a repair, not even a replacement op.
Keep resting and taking care of yourself!

Second on my list:
Turnips! love them. Always have. Used to nag my mam to give me a finger of raw turnip to gnaw on when she was cooking them. Love them cooked too.
My mother used to cook extra and the next day fry it in bacon fat. Delicious, but then I turned vegetarian...

We have turnips [Swedes] and white turnips [turnips] in Ireland.

The Americans have a way with naming veggies, don't they - rutabaga and arugula are such lovely words😃

WTF is this 'Irish lambswool drink' nonsense? Truly truly any eejit can put any old invented rubbish up on the internet, and it will be taken seriously by some other eejits..

We probably had fizzy drinks [a rarity] when we came home from going around the houses in our dressing-up outfits asking 'Any apples or nuts?' and settled down to an evening of either eating, or playing with, the apples and nuts we collected, and lots of fun and games. Ghost stories were for later and only for the older kids.
Not a zombie, ghoul, severed head or bat in sight!🙄

It has just occurred to me that the grown-ups didn't really join in the Halloween fun, because of course it was also the Eve of All Souls Day, and it wouldn't have been appropriate for them to be partying.

I think that's why it was so enjoyable - very child-centred.

Swede and carrot, diced or mashed, with lots of butter is one of the side dishes for Christmas Dinner. I don't mind peeling a swede but dicing it seems to take forever, even with the big knife.

I grew some pumpkins this year, actually got two fruits and the slugs ate them. I'm not too bothered. I did better than last year, learned a lot, and have high hopes for next year. I only bought the seeds as a joke. They're a variety called Racer F1, couldn't resist, eldest sprog is well into F1.

I also, out of curiosity, grew some mashed potato squash. Again only two fruit but the slugs missed them. They're currently in the kitchen. Youngest sprog is back from Uni next week, so the halves will work out.

Just in case of confusion, the squash not the slugs are currently in the kitchen. Sorry.

@Taztoy 💪Warrior

Hallowe'en was not even mentioned when I was a kid ( English East Midlands). It just wasn't any kind of thing at all.
I did wonder if it was my Methodist upbringing, but when I think about it, nobody did anything, so not just me.

Still a Christian and it's still greatly frowned upon.

I don’t think I really encountered any Halloween activities until we moved to the US 1989-1991 , and then it seemed to erupt here shortly after.

re the naming of American veg, I don’t know about rutabaga but some of it is due to the proportion of people of Italian rather than French heritage. So zucchini rather than courgettes.

Hallowe'en wasn't a thing when and where I grew up - the 50s and 60s, Mid Wales / England border. Not just in my family, in the community in general.

Bonfire Night, on the other hand, was a big thing. That was when stuff like apple bobbing happened. And a bonfire and fireworks in the garden - sparklers, Catherine wheels nailed to a post, rockets fired from milk bottles.