Yucca - what am I doing with it?

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*grin*  Seriously -- you have to peel it (potato peeler), then hack it up, put in the cockpot with quite a lot of water and start cooking.  When it falls apart take the strings out of the middle (inedible) but then literally let it cook til it's just a white goopy watery paste.  You'll think you did something 'wrong' but you didn't.  But it's very carby so it needs to cook til it's completely a watery paste. 

I've never been ambitious enough to buy the root -- I usually get it in the Spanish section of the frozen foods (it looks like big fat steak french fries) and I add those to what i"m going to cook but generally I cook it overnight and still may need to cook it LONGER.  But you'll see what I mean -- the strings pretty much just stay almost like wire so just toss those.

Simply peel, boil or steam until soft (about as long as a potato), then slice it lengthwise. The stringy bits should come away easily from the middle.

Save some raw for you and fry up some chips! Salty sweet good!

If Bugsy likes it, you can get frozen yucca at Compare (or even some grocerys now) and it will save some time cooking (only about ten minutes) and the peeling and destringing of course.

 Thanks

brookcove

If Bugsy likes it

 I get it frozen, too. The girls LOVE it! It's similar to sweet potato.

brookcove

Simply peel, boil or steam until soft (about as long as a potato), then slice it lengthwise. The stringy bits should come away easily from the middle.

I always have to cook it forever -- otherwise it's just a glop and I don't figure their bodies will break it down sufficiently.  But honestly I don't think there is a ghost's chance it *won't* like it.  Mine LOVE it.

 OK so what I did was cut it into slices about 1/2 inch think and boiled it for about 15 minutes.  drained and mashed it - the stringy bits got stuck in the masher and wala a gloopy mess.

He seemed to love it - he had it with ground beef, pork liver, and mashed peas.

gloopy mess is right!!!  That's the most exact description I've seen LOL

 I'm known for my descriptive language

Amazingly he was able to eat around the 5-6 peas I didn't mash and then completed his meal by having a mooch around the yard and finding deer poop 

Life with this dog I tell ya

Amazingly he was able to eat around the 5-6 peas I didn't mash and then completed his meal by having a mooch around the yard and finding deer poop 

Aww man. Sounds better than most of my dinner. I'm staying with mom and PJ picked the menu. He wanted some of those frozen chimichaungas and "taquitos." I made the mistake of eating one of each. Vominous. My stomach is still complaining - I think deer poop would have been preferable. 

brookcove

I think deer poop would have been preferable.