Who doesn't like turnip?

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Daveolopolous

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Try oven roasting thick slices of turnip (no need to peel), coated in
garlic flavored EVOO. Soooo delicious!

Details to follow (tomorrow).

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Sometimes I even put it in the food.
 
"sf" wrote in message
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My mom once made a big bowl of mashed turnips or rutabaga. I'm not sure
which. I think I was about 3 at the time. I took a big helping of it
despite the fact that she tried to warn me that it wasn't mashed potatoes.
In the end, I was not pleased!

If I ever had cooked turnips since then, I don't remember. Perhaps I had a
few pieces in a soup.

I do love raw ones. My maternal grandparents had a farm. They grew them.
There is a picture of my grandpa holding a big turnip in one hand and a
pocket knife in the other. We grandkids were all jumping up and down around
him waiting for slices.
 
J. Clarke wrote:

Two secrets if you're growing parsnips. One, you wait until the first
frost before harvesting - only then do they sweeten up. Two, dig them
up when they're small - the big ones are woody. Words of wisdom from
my late father.
 
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:54:53 -0800, Christine Dabney
wrote:

I will look. Most of the root vegetables were pretty young... I was
disappointed on Sunday because the person who sells the baby braising
greens wasn't there.


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notbob wrote:

That sounds to me like a white carrot not a parsnip.

On the one hand parsnips are one of my very few strong food dislikes
yet I like carrots. They taste extremely different to me.

On the other hand I think white turnips and yellow rutties taste very
similar but there are folks who hate one and like the other.

I can imagine someone thinking carrots and parsnips taste similar
because I know to me turnips and rutties taste similar. Okay, parsnips
it is. Maybe.
 
sf wrote:

Check. I go to farmers markets but I don't do it as entertainment. If
I want entertainment I'll probably go to Sur La Table. Chuckle. I'm in
the gadget freak subset of foodies.
 
On 23/02/2011 12:46 PM, Doug Freyburger wrote:



I can appreciate the parsnip dislike. Until a few years ago I had only
had them boiled and I hated them. Hated. Then I had roasted parsnip and
it was not only palatable, but actually very tasty. Roasted parsnips
started being served up regularly around here. I got brave and tried
boiled parsnip...... horrible. Roasted good.... boiled awful.



I like carrots raw, stir fried or roasted. I will eat them boiled but
don't much care for them that way.
 
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