Side dish
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Recipe: Swede garlic mash
Here’s an easy side dish that goes well with anything you would normally pair potato mash with. And here’s a mini-tutorial on how to deal with garlic in a quick and easy way. Refer to the numbers in the photo below. Separate cloves from the bulb. Chop the rough end (bottom end in photo). Split clove in half. Peel clove (this will be very easy now) and remove germ (that green stem in the middle, which is the cause of gut discomfort).
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Recipe: Sweet potato fries
I love sweet potatotes. My favourite way of eating them is to cube them and roast them in the oven for a few hours until they dry out and become crunchy. I heard once that crunchy food = fun food and soft food = comfort food. I could not agree more. I’ve tried making sweet potato fries before but because of the high water content, they don’t turn as crunchy as regular potato fries. I thought drying them out in the oven before frying them would do the trick, and it did, although they didn’t remain crunchy for too long. They were still delicious. We ate them dipped in macadamia…
