Love Me, Love My Turnip

[MisterTinkles]

So......Bowyn Aerrow loves his turnips.

You know you come from "old stock" when you like them turnips.
My granny did. She didn't cook them by themselves a lot, but she did use them as flavoring.


Turnips have a history.
Turnips were a very cheap and easy vegetable to grow "way back when".
Turnips have been used for medicinal purposes. According to some history, it was one of the vegetables that people ate back in the Middle Ages, in hopes of warding off any deadly diseases.
Large turnips were hollowed out and used as lanterns.

Turnips are even promoted as helping people with cancer. Supposedly there are major health benefitting chemicals in turnips that help reduce the risk of cancer.

If you like radishes, onions, broccoli, and cauliflower, then you may like turnips.

They are pungent until cooked. Some people don't like the smell, but the taste is a lot nicer than the smell.

So, eat a turnip today. You might live a little longer.




Crunchy Turnip Crumble

Ingredients:

1 large or 2 medium turnips
3 tablespoons
1 tablespoon spoon brown sugar
2 medium eggs
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon white pepper
pinch of freshly grated nutmeg


For the topping:

8 tablespoons of breadcrumbs
2 tablespoons melted butter

Method:
•Cook and mash cubed turnip with 2 tablespoons of butter.
•Add mixed dry ingredients to mashed turnip, along with 2 eggs, well beaten.
•Put turnip mixture into casserole dish. Sprinkle with topping and bake for 25 minutes in a medium oven or until light brown on top.

[James]

ah you see, not having a sense of smell comes in handy now and again, Jim

[Bowyn Aerrow]

Well Thanks!

Yes I have a soft spot in my heart for the lowly turnip. They grow real well here in early spring to oh about now. And from late September until the frost kills them November- December.

I usually dice mine up, steam them until soft and mash them with a bit of salt pepper and butter.

I also eat turnip greens, cutting a few off the growing plants, chop or shred, steam or boil. Adding a bit of vinegar to them.

I'll definitely have to try that recipe... Winters crop, I don't like to run the oven in the summer it makes the place to hot.

[MisterTinkles]

Well Thanks!

Yes I have a soft spot in my heart for the lowly turnip. They grow real well here in early spring to oh about now. And from late September until the frost kills them November- December.

I usually dice mine up, steam them until soft and mash them with a bit of salt pepper and butter.

I also eat turnip greens, cutting a few off the growing plants, chop or shred, steam or boil. Adding a bit of vinegar to them.

I'll definitely have to try that recipe... Winters crop, I don't like to run the oven in the summer it makes the place to hot.

That's one of the things my granny would cube up a small turnip and cook it in her greens.
Mmm mmm good!

I got a new crockpot earlier this year and found a recipe for crockpot greens. I made some, and made some cornbread to go with it. Turned out pretty good. I tried to follow my grannys recipe. She used a tablespoon of bacon grease in hers....Im not supposed to eat pork bacon anymore, so I cooked a couple of slices of turkey bacon real well done, and then crumbled them up into the bottom of the crockpot before I packed it with greens.

I like Louisiana hot sauce on my greens. Mmmmmmmmmm.



Crockpot Southern Style Greens

Ingredients
1 bunch collard greens (fresh)
1 bunch turnip greens (fresh)
1 smoked turkey wing
1 onion (sliced)
3 1/2 garlic cloves (sliced) or substitute on small turnip cut in small cubes
2 tbsps vinegar
1 tsp brown sugar (Twin)
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
salt
pepper
1/4 cup water


Directions:

Wash greens and cut out thick stems. Stack greens in a pile, then roll up like a cigar, and then slice. Place sliced greens into crockpot with remaining ingredients. Cover and cook on low for 6 hours or on high for 3 hours or until greens are tender.

Make sure you check on them from time to time, sometimes they need to be kept stirred up so the top layer doesn't dry out.


I love my greens with sweet cornbread.

[Bowyn Aerrow]

Oh I do mixed greens and cornbread too.... I guess that is sort of telling of my heritage.

Shhhh I'm not a hick!

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[kokomoloko79]

I throw them in my spicy vegetable soup along with potatoes and most people don't even realize they're eating them.

[archubbycub]

Nothing wrong with turnips! But I guess since I was raised in the country it sort of have me a taste for things like that.

[Bowyn Aerrow]

It is with great sadness that I report I ate the last of my turnips last night.

They went with dignity, salt, pepper and a large dollop of real butter.

In a few more hours they will pass on from my body to become one with the septic tank, where with time and all of those wonderful bacterias in the tank they will leech out back into the earth from which the came.

Ashes to ashes, Dust to dust, Salt and Butter mashed them up.

[ardus]

I love turnips they're so awesome.
Richard

[princealbertofb]

Turnips are nice in couscous.