Angela Lansbury's Rutabaga Puree

Video demo of Dame Angela's way of serving the humble swede...

Ahhh, the humble swede! Or rutabaga as it’s known in the USA. Much loved by me as neeps with haggis and tatties on Burns Night.

Angela gave her recipe for preparing rutabaga puree to a newspaper in 1979. It seems a slightly odd recipe to share as really, there is nothing much to it. But as I got a lovely swede in my organic veg box (supermarket swede on the left, “mucky” veg box version on the right)

and I have pledged to make video demos of all Angela’s recipes featured in the Murder, She Cooked book, rutabaga puree it was! A video postcard follows for my beloved paid subscribers showing me chit-chatting about swede and showing you Angela’s method for cooking it.

I hope that you have this date in your diary - worldwide online watch party - everyone invited. More details will follow, for now, pop the date in your diary.

Here are the recipes from Murder, She Cooked I have demonstrated so far…

Angela Lansbury’s Mustard Vinaigrette

Angela Lansbury’s Salad Sandwich

Angela Lansbury’s Kitchen Sink Salad

Angela Lansbury’s Cottage Pie

Angela Lansbury’s Walnut Date Bread

If you join the Cabot Cove Club as a paid-up special member you’ll get access to all of these and everything else in the archive. Free member sign-ups are also cherished…

Patrons of the arts can choose a Cabot Cove Club membership name - which character would you play in a reboot of Murder, She Wrote? As it looks as though the Jamie Lee Curtis version is scuppered,

maybe we can make our own?

Our most recent special member Lorna chose to play Jessica’s niece, Victoria Griffin in our imaginary version of the series.

I play Eve Simpson…

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