Hi Deanna!

Peel them, boil them then toss in saute'd garlic and olive oil and salt/pepper to taste. Great as a side dish. Pass the Beano. ;) -maria

I've just had them raw in salads - they're nice and crunchy. Oy, beano when they're cooked? I'll pass, LOL, but they do sound good cooked!

Do they HAVE to be peeled? These suckers are mostly very small. Biggest is maybe 3" long and "tri-eared" if that makes any sense. They would be extremely hard to peel.

Thanks for the Beano tip, I wouldn't have thought about that one! I think in my brain, I am thinking they're more like potatoes.

Deanna

I've never tried them but have been interested in them. I've read that if you change the water half way through cooking it reduces the flatulence problem. Some people just seem to have a hard time with them and some don't. Seems like I've read a lot about them on the veg forum.

I don't peel them.
But if you do, you can peel them with a kitchen stainless steel wool pad.
Same way if you have to peel ginger.

dcarch

Thank you all.
I'm thinking maybe I should wait till the weekend to try these.......so DH & I aren't stuck in an office...just in case the Beano doesn't work!! LOL

I've Rojo Pork in the crockpot today anyway and won't be home in time to cook for the next 2 nights (yep, leftover pork "something" for dinner those two)!

I'm mostly lazy, so I'll probably scrub, toss with olive oil, S & P and roast quickly. I normally love the flavor roasting gives to root veggies and I'd like to really "taste" them this first time.

Deanna

Woodie: "I'll pass"

Woodie2 is so RIGHT!!!!

I've noticed (when folks chow down on this root) there seems to be enough natural gas manufactured to power a rocket to the moon! Kinda makes me run screaming (that's an exhaled scream!) from the room, gathering the pups along the way! LOL

There are several varieties of J.A.'s. If you have the variety that stays crunchy after they're cooked, you can use them in place of water chestnuts. I don't like the consistency of cooked J.A.'s if they're not the crunchy kind. Of course if you bought them and didn't grow them, you have no way to know until you cook one.

You can grate or thinly slice raw J.A.'s and use them in salads. They lend themselves well to green salads, marinated salads, and even those retro Jell-o salads that also have shredded carrot and apple in them.

I like them raw. I use a brush to clean them, to get into all the nooks and crannies. I don't peel them.

I haven't noticed any worse gas with these than there is with things like cabbage and beans. We eat a lot of stuff like this and your intestines adjust themselves.

Hehe, Weed :)

Well, I DID grow them, but I got the roots from a friend so I have no idea what variety they are!!

We'll see how it goes this weekend!! :-)
I may have to send DH to the barn!

Deanna