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Marrow's only purpose seems to be to eek out something else, doesn't it? Even with ginger.
There is still a residual flavour which comes out in marrow and ginger jam (he says hopefully). But largely, yes. I've got some bones boiling up on my stove with celery, carrots and onion. It's not for immediate consumption since tonight's dinner is going to feature a steak with roasted carrot, pumpkin and potatoes. Pretty useful to have some stock in the fridge ready to go in case people want feeding on Sunday night. |
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« Reply #3241 on: 20:35:25, 11-10-2008 » |
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I feel rather silly for not having started cooking earlier, but I got carried away with working.
The pumpkin has been roasting away for a little while and smells amazing, my potatoes are having a boil before I add them to the roasting tray with the carrots and the pumpkin. That's when I'll heat up my griddle pan and prepare to incinerate my steak (the steak I bought (Scottish, of course) was so huge I've had to cut it into two), which has been marinading in oil and a sprinkling of dried herbs. I'm probably not going to eat for another 25 minutes, but I've got a pint of Deuchars IPA (my payment for my 'modelling' earlier in the week), I'm listening to Eötvös and still working, so I'm quite happy!
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« Reply #3243 on: 21:36:05, 11-10-2008 » |
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The pumpkin has been roasting away for a little while and smells amazing
I think pumpkin is a magnificent and hugely underrated vegetable. It grieves me to think of all those people who buy them at this time of year simply to scoop out the middle to make halloween decorations. What a waste. |
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« Reply #3244 on: 21:37:25, 11-10-2008 » |
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Well given how much I just enjoyed that half, I'm going to have the other half tomorrow and then go out and buy more!
I also intend to keep on eating them until the shops stop selling them.
Lovely.
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« Reply #3246 on: 21:42:53, 11-10-2008 » |
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Tomorrow I will toast the seeds and add them, along with the rest of the flesh to a risotto made with the stock I made this afternoon.
And then I'll have that with the rest of the steak.
I might invite someone round to share it so that I'm not too much of a pig...
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« Reply #3247 on: 12:30:32, 12-10-2008 » |
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I love roasted pumpkin but that is the only way I cook them, never considered putting them in a risotto, are there any other recipes? I have had pumpkin, goats cheese and spinach pizza in restaurants. Butternut squash is good roasted as well.
Yesterday I cooked Welsh lamb shanks with chickpeas, leeks and tomatoes, it was decidedly NOM
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« Reply #3248 on: 12:34:57, 12-10-2008 » |
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Pumpkin is great roasted, yes. With oil and salt. Since it's getting close to Thanksgiving season, anone else fond of that T-giving staple, sweet potatoes mashed with butter and garlic? Ooh, ooh. I do love all that stuff.  |
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« Reply #3249 on: 12:42:23, 12-10-2008 » |
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I love roasted pumpkin but that is the only way I cook them, never considered putting them in a risotto, are there any other recipes? I have had pumpkin, goats cheese and spinach pizza in restaurants. Butternut squash is good roasted as well.
Pumpkin soup is excellent - real comfort food. Pumpkin is great roasted, yes. With oil and salt. Since it's getting close to Thanksgiving season, anone else fond of that T-giving staple, sweet potatoes mashed with butter and garlic? Ooh, ooh. I do love all that stuff. I love mashed sweet potatoes - another great comfort food as the nights draw in and turn cold and frosty. |
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« Reply #3250 on: 13:16:57, 12-10-2008 » |
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I love sweet potatoes, roast and mashed, in fact all the winter root veggies, but have never got to grips with turnips  What should I do with them? |
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« Reply #3251 on: 13:53:57, 12-10-2008 » |
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Try mashing them with carrots, Anty.
[Edit: As you were, Anty, I'd forgotten that turnip is something different South of the Border; a turnip/neep here is what you'd call a swede. Your turnips are white neeps, and nothing like as popular.]
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« Reply #3252 on: 14:07:25, 12-10-2008 » |
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Cube them and roast them with other winter roots.
I like the contrast of flavours that this creates, especially since you aren't always sure what it is you've just put on your fork; is this celeriac or turnip? swede or carrot?
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« Reply #3253 on: 14:14:07, 12-10-2008 » |
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Try mashing them with carrots, Anty.
[Edit: As you were, Anty, I'd forgotten that turnip is something different South of the Border; a turnip/neep here is what you'd call a swede. Your turnips are white neeps, and nothing like as popular.]
Indeed Ron, we call them swedes (which I like combined with carrots or potatoes as they can sometimes be rather strongly flavoured) which in Scotland you call neeps, turnips are white and quite honestly, to my mind, fairly tasteless except for bunging in a stew to pad it out. Old joke: What do vegetarian cannibals eat? Swedes! (Kindly leave the stage!) |
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« Reply #3254 on: 11:13:08, 13-10-2008 » |
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Despite my luke warm comments on the gastronomic virtues of the marrow, IIMO the pumpkin and other assorted squashes are wonderful. We are very boring and cut them in wedges and steam them in the microwave and have them as stodge in place of potato with meat or fish.
They are so much more interesting than boiled potatoes.
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