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Sweet potato

Tesco frozen dept do a beetroot, parsnip and carrot frozen fries.. gave me the idea of roasting my own beetroot with celeriac... it is delicious... and I hate raw beetroot..
Just both roasted in oven but I cut mine up in to chunky chip shapes for both instead of fries shapes...they were really tasty last night..
 
This is definitely giving me food for thought. Got some celeriac in the fridge but never used it before. Mashing it to top a cottage pie is probably not a good idea.
 
I have shelves of cookbook s, I will have to go through them. I put them in plastic bags and hang them on the railings at the front of the house. I write "Free Cookbooks" they are ideally gone within the hour.
 
xfieldok said:
This is definitely giving me food for thought. Got some celeriac in the fridge but never used it before. Mashing it to top a cottage pie is probably not a good idea.
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Ooh it is great mashed on anything!! I mash in with cauliflower too... and broccoli for topping foods off... oooh totally yummy!!
 
xfieldok said:
@donnellysdogs I thought we were not supposed to mash anything? I will definitely try once my numbers are a little more under control.
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Whats the difference for mashing?

I have to have mushy veg.. thats my reasoning... but nothing better than mashed celeriac or caulflower together!!
 
@donnellysdogs I read somewhere that you should eat stuff without mashing, mash gets processed faster into glucose than if left in chunks.

Happy to be corrected, the idea of lashings of butter and black pepper is utterly appealing!
 
xfieldok said:
@donnellysdogs I read somewhere that you should eat stuff without mashing, mash gets processed faster into glucose than if left in chunks.

Happy to be corrected, the idea of lashings of butter and black pepper is utterly appealing!
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Could well be true then. Wouldnt suprise me:).
I can only eat mushy veg so got no choice!!
 
Guzzler said:
Exactly. As a rough guide, the 'best' potato to have is boiled new pots. The worst is baked sweet pots. As my DN recommended sweet pots at diagnosis instead of white ones I no longer have any trust in her judgement. I found all this out with a quick google, she is supposed to be university trained and holds some responsibilityfor the info she gives her patients. I am not impressed to say the least.
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Thank you for this did buy some sweet potatoes but frightened rouse them.But now I know I can have some steamed occasionally.Going home today and getting back on track xx
 
This thread has reminded me I really need to try boiled new potatoes and see what they do to me. They used to be part of my staple diet - boil/steam some new potatoes and couple of other veg like carrots and broccoli in a pan and have with a bit of meat (or pie, which I know I can't get away with now). A few veg including 2-3 small new potatoes with belly pork or sausages sounds very good to me.

Also I really need to try making some celeriac oven chips.
 
Arab Horse said:
I too was told sweet potatoes were better than ordinary ones!!! I too found they weren't!!!
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I have already placed sweet potato on the suspect food list long ago. In my country, there are many kinds of sweet potato, orange, purple, yellow, honey sweet potato. Their texture and sweetness are all different.
 
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