My JAs are just showing through,
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mrf94
What are JA's?
I think it's jerusalem artichokes :)
If you can't grow these -give up-.
It is harder to get rid of them once planted.
I found them fiddly to clean and cook, was not impressed with the flavour, tried them as mash, in soup and even blended with cream and served on pasta.
An Anti Social Behaviour warning:-
Eating these causes farting!
I'm a fan - in moderation. The soup is excellent and different, abit of truffle oil makes it even more exotic. Other recipes include baking them in cream with anchovies or bacon with a parmesan crust and just roasting them - in their skins.
The easiest way to cook them is to steam them in their skins for around 20 minutes. You'll then find you can squeeze the skins off.
Some people are more affected than others, but to mitigate the side effects try adding asafoetida to recipes.
I would agree that you don't need many of them - they are very productive.
Ohh...they are so yammy...I grow quite a lot of them...
they are fiddly to "weed" out if you leave them to be..secret to good size tubers in one big clump is to dig them out every year and plant only one tuber back..same place is fine but they do need feeding with a bit of compost.
As what comes to cooking ,,they do not have starch in them so mixing them with potatoes will improve the flavour and texture of the food.
Eg. mash= 2/3 potatoes & 1/3 JA's.
Wind will calm down as you stomach gets used to them...so keep eating.."there have to be storm before the sun shine"... ::) ;D
I had a few JAs kindly passed on by 2 fellow A4A people as the weather was so bad i was not able to get up to the plot to harvest and they have all sprouted so does not look like i will get any this year but i should have a larger harverst next year.
Im type2 diabetic so the JA s are my contribution to my diet, i got two packets of 5 tubers per pack ( About £5 ) , So i planted 10 tubers,
ide just about decided they were waterlogged, dead, or had ran off home to mum ,
when to my delight up they came, I know about the side effects and about getting them all out of the ground , but its my first allotment, my first year,
And i wanted to try something new (to me) so the other thing new is chard
i have grown most other things in my back garden so getting the allotment was like going into mass production and im getting great pleasure out of seeing the new things grow as apposed to just being a manager of a production site.
mrf94
I am still waiting for mine to show some sign of life.
I planted in February but the bed became waterlogged for a while so keeping my fingers crossed. :)
They are just starting to emerge now. be patient. :D
One of the best varieties to grow found was Fuseau, as it's a lot smoother and less knobbly than standard, with fairly large tubers and a good taste too.
An added bonus is the lovely flowers- just like small sunflowers - I cut them for the house last year.,
Did you take some of ours Caroline... they were Fuseau.
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Quote from: mrf94 on April 13, 2008, 22:23:21
Im type2 diabetic so the JA s are my contribution to my diet,
My daughter is type 1, and she also loves JA's ...
The most interesting way I have found to cook them is as gnocchi, just use instead of potato. I think I put a recipe up at some time, a search may pull it up.
Just love them!
They are brilliant lightly boiled then put into a dish with sliced ham over and a cheese sauce and then chucked in the oven for 20 minutes - Perfect!
I now have 3 rows of them as last year I grew too many so towards the beginning of Feb I sold the surplus to local veg shop - they went really well and I made £22.50 profit - so this year thought I would add a few for the profit margin. I have some of the straighter ones which have the pinky skin but most are the really knobbly white ones!
They are meant to be extremely good for you - despite the windy after effects!
Old Bird
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