mikewot

Hhhhmmm, I use brawn, not brain. Cut in half. Place the flat half on the chopping board then use the chef knife pressing firmly on the handle with the tip almost on the board. Sometimes tastier using turnips, they're smaller and easier to handle than a swede.

Eva

I can't believe I am talking turnips.
I googled the difference between swedes and turnips(sad I know,sadder that I admit it)
Well I have spent some time in Scotland during my school years,university and being married to a Scotsman for a while.
I have been to a few Burns Suppers and love the melange of carrot and swede
with haggis.
Looking at google,swedes look yellow, akin to what I thought turnips were
-also similar to what I used to eat with haggis.

Turnips( ' neeps!) seem white....

mikewot

Yes turnips have a white flesh and generally only the top part is purple. Swede is yellow flesh with most of the outer being purple. Turnips are smaller and remind me more of parsnips as they can be quite 'nippy'.

Eva

[QUOTE=mikewot;11054727]Yes turnips have a white flesh and generally only the top part is purple. Swede is yellow flesh with most of the outer being purple. Turnips are smaller and remind me more of parsnips as they can be quite 'nippy'.


Hahaha,get you.
Parsnips are sugar.As are carrots.
So when I attended Burns Suppers it wasn't the magnificent yellow
Turnip but Swede.....from Sweden???

Anyway,shouldn't you be charting 777's, Airbus,Tupulpv 154(suspect nosecone)
Illushyn,Shorts 360,Fokker Douglas,Bandarante or Twinotter

mikewot

I don't know the etymology. But different names in different parts of the country. For me (from Aberdeen) a swede is the yellow thing, a turnip is the little nippy thing http://topveg.com/2010/07/the-differ...s-and-turnips/

Uuummm, nothing to do with my job (Air Traffic Control Tools now) and I'm on holiday in UK

Eva

Happy holidays loon
So you still knocking threads on the head?
Me thinks you get your kicks on ME .
Fine .
Who would want the responsibility of guiding everything home

the quine Eva.

mikewot

Thank you very muckle.
Power trip, the rush is incredible.
Well I've been doing this for 39 years next month, so I suppose I must think it's OK

Eva

So you walked in to Leauchars? maybe Kinloss
Whatever,enjoy your imminent retirement.

mikewot

In yea olde days there was a recruiting office in Aberdeen
I retired from HMF in Jan 2000, been working for a living since then. My plan is to retire completely before I'm 60, hence sweating it out in Dubay for a few, tax free, years.

scrubbedexpat141

Are you still in the UAE?

I know there is a Lakeland shop somewhere, MOE perhaps. This will have corers and other such tools.

Carrot/Swede mashed combo is one of my favourites. If I make it, it's laced with butter, pepper and sometimes, just sometimes a dab of cream.

Blue Cat

Brains1983

still is, on Belmont Street.

Brains1983

Lulu also have them. But it's the one that takes out the core and divides the apple into several wedges.

Brains1983

Tom Kha Gai soup from Teatro is delicious. Otherwise, my own creamy roasted red pepper soup is pretty tasty. Or a tin of Heinz Tomato.

Ditzy

You can buy local pumpkin pre-chopped in trays, I think even from Spinneys it is only about 10 AED for a tray.

My fave: Arabic lentil soup. Mostly just the same as lentil soup but dry roast some cumin seeds before you add onions. Finish off with some lemon juice. Yum..

May make some today!!