I posted on another thread that our meal today would include mashed swede. Reader, I may have inadvertently lied 
As we have a large, late breakfast on a Sunday, we have our main meal around 6pm. I prep my veg in advance, and cook the swede (if we are having it) and put in a dish to heat up in the oven later.
I find it always a bit of a bu**er to chop, but wield my large knife, slice it up then peel and chop it. This one had an odd feel about it, a fact that I mentioned to Mr P.
I set it to boil, and gave it extra time as I had already marked it as a potentially awkward beast. I prodded it with a sharp knife, then topped up the water and left it for another 10 minutes. I prodded it again, topped it up again, and left it again.
Eventually after a considerable amount of time and much electricity, I decided that surely it must be cooked by now, and made a small quantity of vegetable stock to mash it in (NOTE, less calories than butter, and with the addition of plenty of black pepper no one has ever noticed the difference 
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As Mr P had blotted his copy book by "suddenly" remembering that there was some washing in his suitcase, just after I had finished the last load, I set him on mashing duty.
Mr P is a big strong chap, and well able to wield a masher in such a way that most vegetables quake at his approach.
After a few minutes bashing away, the curses started. That was when I knew, that for the second time in our marriage we had encountered....."The Swede that wouldn't die"!
It was decanted into a dish, covered in cling film and subjected to a severe microwaving. We took it out, lifted the film and set to again.
Still it resisted! Back into the microwave it went, this time on a higher power setting. Confident that we had finally blasted it into submission, we took it out and applied the utensil.
It then went into the food processor 
. This of course caused more washing up. It still looks as if there may be some fight left in it.
I think we might be having dinner without swede.
as he said he is quite happy to peel and cube it next time!
