Yesterday I harvested a plant & tried to make tortillas.

It was the first time I'd harvest a cassava plant to eat even though I've technically had it growing for 5 years. My original plant was neglected & got shaded out by weeds but was good for cuttings.

The tortillas were a failure. They tasted like potato pancakes. I'm not sure if it was because I harvested it before the tubers had gotten really fat or if I didn't boil it long enough to make it soft.

Harvesting was easy because the soil was soft & sandy. They peeled really quickly & easily. After cooking 2 tortillas I abandoned that & added the mash to a soupy osso buco I had made. I'd only added salt to the water I'd boiled it in but the mash tasted almost cheesy. It's very tasty, very much like potato with more flavour & with a gloopy texture.

I rate cassava highly as a low maintenance starchy survival food. Going to be growing a lot of this in the future.