Currabinny Cooks: The humble swede can be a truly beautiful thing

Let us be honest, swedes are probably the least sexy vegetable you could possibly think of. They are ugly, plain, used as animal feed, they smell awful when cooked, give very little in the texture department and most of our collective food trauma as a nation probably comes from having to eat mounds of over boiled, watery, smelly swede.

There is that joke about Irish mammies putting on the turnip in November in preparation for Christmas dinner.