The perfect recipe for those January blues
Suffering from January blues? Here’s the cure — a big pot of bubbling stew and even if you never cooked a thing in your life you can do this.
Funds are probably low, it’s so easy to overspend both before Christmas and in the January sales so in this column I’ll focus on how to make several yummy meals from one of the least expensive seasonal ingredients — the humble swede turnip. All root vegetables are at their very best in winter. Parsnips, carrots, celeriac, Jerusalem artichokes and swede turnip all become even more delicious after a few night’s frost where the low temperatures transform the starches into sugars. Same happens with fancy salsify and scorzonera and we’ve also been enjoying both oca and yakón — root vegetables that you can easily grow yourself if you can source the tubers. Contact the The Organic Centre in Leitrim: www.theorganiccentre.ie.
