Cheers Mark

I shut up now.

Beware though, like all brassica vegetables, there is a tendency for gassiness and abdominal bloating to occur while digesting the thing.

The solution for this is to eat it with fennel, or to sprinkle crushed fresh fennel seed over the vegetable before eating. I do both.

I understand that increasing digestive juices also helps decrease gassiness, and lemon juice helps with that, aparrently increasing digestive juice production.

My favorite meal including the swede is as follows:

I cut up a peeled swede/rutabaga and put it in a covered dish with a little water, and microwave it for about 5 minutes. Then I serve it with a little lemon juice and crushed fennel seed, and a quartered fennel bulb cooked the same way.

I usually add a slab of lightly pan fried kangaroo steak, and put it with some unsweetened tomato sauce.

You can add a little salt and butter to the vegetables for flavour if you like, but the lemon juice counteracts the need for salt. Kangaroo is very low in fat so I figure I can afford to add a little butter to my vegetables.

In any case, the natural flavours of these vegetables is marvellous.

I make this meal in about 10 minutes. It is fantastic nutritionally, costs very little, and tastes wonderful.

And yes, no gas 😉