I really like raw potato. I wonder if it would be good for this kind of thing?
Ugh. When I was younger I tried every vegetable I could find raw, and potatoes and leeks were the two I'd never touch again. Turnip is surprisingly nice - a bit like a big mild radish :-)
Really? Wish I'd read that two hours ago, before turning the whole of three turnips into soup. What about other root veg? I know carrot is nice, and I can believe it of parsnip, but ... well, a swede would be bloody hard work, wouldn't it?
Did you also eat raw those pulses you're supposed to soak overnight then boil for an hour? (another ingredient of the turnip soup was chickpeas:-)
OT (not root veg); but I love raw french beans. Cooking them is just wrong.
No. Raw is only useful when they're really fresh. If they've been stored more than a day or two (as is likely if you buy them inna shop) you lose that and might just as well cook 'em, IMO.
If I were ever rich enough to have a garden, that's one of the indulgences I might treat myself to ...
No. Raw is only useful when they're really fresh. If they've been stored more than a day or two (as is likely if you buy them inna shop) you lose that and might just as well cook 'em, IMO.
If I were ever rich enough to have a garden, that's one of the indulgences I might treat myself to ...
I really like raw potato. I wonder if it would be good for this kind of thing?
Ugh. When I was younger I tried every vegetable I could find raw, and potatoes and leeks were the two I'd never touch again. Turnip is surprisingly nice - a bit like a big mild radish :-)
Really? Wish I'd read that two hours ago, before turning the whole of three turnips into soup. What about other root veg? I know carrot is nice, and I can believe it of parsnip, but ... well, a swede would be bloody hard work, wouldn't it?
If you mean a proper turnip, not one of those little namby-pamby white things you southern jessies eat, yes, it's very pleasant raw with a bit of salt.
Raw potatos are a bad idea as they can contain solanine, which is the same poison found in deadly nighshade (they are from the same family)
See Dorothy L. Sayers.
Which one of the 478 000 pages that google found would you like me to see?
At least a couple of her stories turn on training the body's tolerance to poison. The plot of _Strong Poison_ turns on tolerance to arsenic; that of _Documents in the Case_ on the difference between the natural and synthetic forms of the poison Muscarine, a poison which the victim has developed tolerance to.
At least a couple of her stories turn on training the body's tolerance to poison. The plot of _Strong Poison_ turns on tolerance to arsenic; that of _Documents in the Case_ on the difference between the natural and synthetic forms of the poison Muscarine, a poison which the victim has developed tolerance to.
And they both come under the category of science fiction with little basis in physiology or fact. Doesn't stop them being good stories though.
Ah! Oxford! I'm thinking of entering the 300km ride starting in Oxford on 1 April. It looks like a great ride, taking the long route over the hills down to Chepstow and then back via the Severn Bridge and Marlborough Downs, but with 3900m of climbing it is not one for the faint of heart (which is why I may not enter it after all).
My entry is in the post, and my one consoling thought about the scenery is that it isn't /that/ much more than the Rural South had. Which I got round in 18:20. Of which about 3:30 were spent stationary. Mostly wrestling with tyres.
There was a rumour that some fat TV woman is going to do an AUK event this year, accompanied by a TV crew.
I suppose as an organiser I should say "good, let's encourage more riders into it" but I can just see this going pear shaped (pun unintended)
The organiser should also refuse to validate her card as she will be accompanied by other vehicles (forbidden in AUK regs). Unless of course they put the cameraman on a tandem.
Alternatively, just bung things in the ground at the right time of year - they'll grow ok. Regular offerings of beer to the Slug King keeps those pests in check (and possibly results in very lazy, very well fed and very- very drunk hedgehogs).
