What is it?

[Windigo]

OK - a re-cap:

Its a vegetable.
Its (obviously) white.
Its not coleslaw, jicama, onion, horseradish, daikon or rutabaga (swede in the UK).
Two members used it in recipes recently.
Its prepared here in a 'classic' way.

Well I am a chef but I am stumped for any classic dish that looks like this and does not contain the above. Sure I'll be like 'oh of course!' then when it's revealed. But I can't think of anything.

 

[karadekoolaid]

Turnip

 

[karadekoolaid]

Or perhaps celeriac

 

[Morning Glory]

Or perhaps celeriac

Finally! And the dish is?

 

[karadekoolaid]

Celeri remoulade. C'-est bon ça !!
Classic French - but I never cook French food.

 

[Morning Glory]

Celeri remoulade. C'-est bon ça !!
Classic French - but I never cook French food.

You got it!

Here was its destiny in a sort of deconstructed Waldorf salad that I made:

 

[Windigo]

Celeri remoulade. C'-est bon ça !!
Classic French - but I never cook French food.

I only cooked classic French food in cooking school, but definitely not this.
And I've never worked in classic French restaurants either.
Celeriac is almost always only used for purees here

 

[Morning Glory]

I only cooked classic French food in cooking school, but definitely not this.
And I've never worked in classic French restaurants either.
Celeriac is almost always only used for purees here

This is quite a well known dish in the UK. Well, not an everyday dish but one known to keen cooks I suppose. More popular back in the days of Elizabeth David, perhaps (who made French recipes accessible to the middle classes here).

 

[Windigo]

This is quite a well known dish in the UK. Well, not an everyday dish but one known to keen cooks I suppose. More popular back in the days of Elizabeth David, perhaps (who made French recipes accessible to the middle classes here).

Thank you that's interesting to know. It's something I have never seen before around here. Sounds nice anyway

 

[karadekoolaid]

Last time (and probably the only time) I ate it was at Brasserie Zédel, in Piccadilly. It´s still on the menu

 

[Morning Glory]

Anyone can post a photo. I waited... but here is another to be going on with:

 

[karadekoolaid]

chocolate

 

[Morning Glory]

chocolate

Nope. I don't eat chocolate so it would be unlikely!

 

[garlichead]

First though was a trumpet type mushroom.

 

[Morning Glory]

First though was a trumpet type mushroom.

Not really.