I get a vegetable box delivered each week. It's a combination of in-season produce and while I'm pretty good at getting through the vegetables, just sometimes I end up with a lot of one particular ingredient.

This week it happened with that most unglamorous of vegetables, the swede. I like swede, but it's not a vegetable I use often and apart from mixing with potato and making into a mash, I never really know what else to do with them.

With four swedes leftover from the last two veg boxes, I put a shout-out on Twitter for help.

 

 

The responses included @lambsearshoney suggestion to turn them into home-made chips, much like this idea. Alternatively @lemonpi referred me to these spicy fritters, while @Glebe2037 recommended roasting the swedes and then making them into soup.

 

It strikes me that this trio of ideas - roasting the vegetable, turning it into soup, or making fritters - is a great list for dealing with most excess vegetable. Almost any vegetable can be grated, mixed with egg, flour, herbs and spices and formed into fritters. Most vegetables can be made into soup, while everything except for leafy greens can be tossed in a bit of olive oil and roasted in the oven.