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I had read on threads here that JAs have a funny side effect when eaten.

Now, our family enjoys a good laugh at the occasional perp, fart, bottom guff, etc...

All good heathly, earthy fun. !!

But Can I Just Say.   I wasn't expecting the complete barrel of laughs we had over the fare portion of JAs we had yesterday.

The wind problem :-) was every 4 minutes,   great guffs,  top toots, bottom belches, had us in stiches, gagging all over the place - many dead -

+ JAs are really tasty just straight roasted in chip sized slithers, for 3/4 the time of the roast spuds.

Fantastic food + fun...  Cannot recommend enough !!!

My wife refuses to cook them now, so ours are getting fed to the goats.....jet-propelled goats  ;D

I have heard that there is a method of cooking that deals with the wind problem, but haven't been able to find details.

Suffolklad:

QuoteI have heard that there is a method of cooking that deals with the wind problem

Naa,  I'm not spoiling the fun :-)

silent but deadly - is the way  ;D

I'm reminded of a story that my brother told me, from when he was working in Paris for a large British company.  Every couple of months a senior engineer would visit.  This was a good excuse to go out for a decent lunch.  But sadly, the senior engineer, who was a traditional type from Birmingham, would only eat a very traditional British lunch. Usually prawn cocktail and well-done steak.

Anyway, came the day that the senior engineer was coming up to retirment, and paid his last visit to Paris oin company business.  They pushed the boat out, and went to a suitably posh restaurant.  And for once, persuaded this guy to have some French food.  "Look", they said, "we'll order you only very simple things. No snails or foie gras.  How about an nice soup, followed by lamb chops? We'll make sure the chops are well-cooked."

So he was persuaded.  The soup was jerusalem artichoke soup - more of a puree as it was described to me.  Very delicate and delicious, and he polished it all off.  The lamb chops - well cooked as ordered - came with a generous portion of flageolet beans.  He loved the beans. Apart from their colour, this was familiar territory.

We don't know what they planned for further courses.  The JAs and the flageolets combined to give him such a violent wind problem, on a tummy quite unused to such things, that he had to go and stand in the street for the rest of the meal.  ;D

oh dear oh dear, flageolets are just the worst!!!!
Can I say that the region where I live is a big bean eating region? they eat these dried beans called mogettes, they are big white beans, nice flavour. So to stop the inevitable atmospheric pollution, they cook the beans with a whole carrot in the liquid. When the beans are cooked, the carrot is removed and thrown away, they say it soaks up the gas-causing elements!! I have tried it and it seems to work!
Jerusalem artichokes are so easy to cook! Whole, boiled in salty water then just slay off the skins and mash! but for the farty issue, i couldn't say if that helps!!

I stand my earlier views on JA's. We tried some again this weekend, just a few and cooked the "right way". When your 5 month pregnant wife has been up all night with stomach ache, it becomes less funny.

Give us regular updates Ollie as the big day approaches... my monsters are 15 and 18 this next Spring... where did all those years go!
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Try googling Asafoetida - a pinch of this when cooking JAs is supposed to deal with the jet propulsion!

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Yep. I tried asafoetida (sp?) and it works for JA! You can get it in the spice section in good supermarkets...ie any one but ASDA.

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Asafoetida helps for me too! doesn't diminish altogether but definitely enables me to enjoy this veg. changing the cooking water also helps.

I just love farty grub.....the louder and pongier the better, gets my kids back  ;D ;D ;D 8)

Anyone who tells me they dont like the smell of thier own.....is a LIAR HAHAHA ;D ;D

I'll vouch for asafoetida.

Have also heard that if you put them in cold water and bring to them to the boil, then drain  them and carry on cooking in fresh water, it reduces the unwanted side effects, but haven't tried it ourselves.

it's definately true what someone wrote in an earlier thread ; they act as windbreaks and release it later , we've tried it for the first time this year as well..... I thought sprouts were bad.!!!!.
nice to read there is an antidote (asafoetida)... Lyn ( the better half) says thanks

We used asafoetida - I think it just makes the smell worse!

This will be kid no. 2 , saddad, (other one is 2 & having a tantrum as we speak!) and I shall be updating one here as the saga develops! The last 2 years have been the happiest & quickest 2 years of my life!

Perhaps this is not the time to recommend artichoke and sprout soup? ;D

Toot toot!...


... trumpet involuntary


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Couldn't resist it any longer so dug one root up today and weighed in at 2.5 kilo. Only 29 more roots left to last till March. ;D

OH MY GOODNESS! HOW TRUE IS THAT  ::)

I dug up my 1st JA's a few weeks ago and I thought the world had dropped out of my bottom  :o

It turned out to be all hot air but bl**dy hell!

Dug up the rest and donated them to the teachers at Alfie's school  :)

Dont you like teachers much then Trix.......? ;D ;D ;D