Kohlrabi

I ordered a Shropshires organic veg box in with my Tesco shopping yesterday, and it had one of these in it. I knew it was a kohlrabi (just one of those little bits of trivia picked up somewhere along the way!) but not what to do with it. Anyway, looked it up on t'internet today, and discovered that apparently it's very popular in Germany, which was useful to know as it helped in persuading Mr F-P to eat it! He's not one for tying new and peculiar looking vegetables. Anyway, the suggested uses for it seemed to be basically grate it in a coleslaw (which Mr F-P doesn't eat anyway, and besides, I bought a tub of coleslaw in M&S yesterday and how much do you need?), cook it in a cream and cheese sauce in the oven for an hour (a bloody hour?!), or mash it in with some spuds. Guess which one I chose. So we had potato and kohlrabi mash (with cheddar and mustard as The Boy is not a mash fan, but tolerates it if it's cheesy!), Quorn sausages in gravy made from a bottle of M&S red wine and rosemary marinade and Bisto granules, and broccoli and cabbage. It was bloody lovely!


Am off to do fake tanning now and dye my hair as the grey is creeping back in. Mr F-P and I are going to a charidee dinner on Friday - I've no idea what it's for (it's at Bramall Lane football ground, home of Sheffield United, so I suspect it may be football related) but as long as I get a good dinner and can wear my posh frock I don't really care. There might even be free champagne again!