{"id":11884,"date":"2025-12-07T21:59:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T02:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=11884"},"modified":"2025-12-10T20:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T01:19:07","slug":"mashed-yuca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=11884","title":{"rendered":"Mashed Yuca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was spectacular &#8211; I&#8217;ve been looking for a replacement for &#8220;mashed potatoes&#8221;, and tried mashed yuca root. You&#8217;ve got to peel it and, as I learned after making it the first time, there&#8217;s very fibrous bits at the ends <em>and<\/em> running down the middle. Chop the root into small chunks and boil in salted water for about 25 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251207_162426.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11885\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251207_162426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251207_162426.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251207_162426-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251207_162426-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251207_162426-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251207_162426-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remove from the water and mash while they are warm. Mix in a little coconut oil, salt, and garlic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251207_172002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11886\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251207_172002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251207_172002.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251207_172002-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251207_172002-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251207_172002-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251207_172002-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was spectacular &#8211; I&#8217;ve been looking for a replacement for &#8220;mashed potatoes&#8221;, and tried mashed yuca root. You&#8217;ve got to peel it and, as I learned after making it the first time, there&#8217;s very fibrous bits at the ends and running down the middle. Chop the root into small chunks and boil in salted &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2154,21,128,46],"class_list":["post-11884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-aip","tag-cooking-2","tag-food","tag-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11887,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884\/revisions\/11887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}