[Chode]

do they even sell turnips and parsnips and rutabagas anymore???

[Carry_Okie]

do they even sell turnips and parsnips and rutabagas anymore???

Yep.

[Jamestown1630]

Sure. They’re all in my supermarket today.

[dennisw]

“do they even sell turnips and parsnips and rutabagas anymore???”

All three are in local small grocery that is Hispanic run. I bought some parsnips.

[FreedomNotSafety]

Mashed parsnips are a great substitute for white potatoes.

[dljordan]

“do they even sell turnips and parsnips and rutabagas anymore???”

Yes. I love turnips but the wife won’t have them.

[SunkenCiv]

I’ve fallen for the old rutabaga scam... home from college, dad was on the road, mom a hot bowl of squash-lookin’ stuff, called it “new vegetable” (no really, she’d left a note on it). It wasn’t heinous, but it didn’t thrill me.

Parsnip and turnips are something I’ve rarely eaten. They need a new publicist, new marketing names. :^)

[metmom]

Yup, and turnips are RIDCULOUSLY easy to grow. Just throw some seeds in the ground and ignore them.

You’ll have more turnips than you can use.

I use them in beef barley soup as they don’t mush up like potatoes, and are lower car.

They are good mashed with butter and salt.

I want to try them as oven roasted some time, like I do for potatoes and carrots.

[GaryCrow]

do they even sell turnips and parsnips and rutabagas anymore???

I live in Mississippi, turnips are everywhere here. They stink to high heaven when cooking so I tend to avoid them.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

C: They do sell them in the stores I go to. And, gardeners have and continue to grow both of these. I grow them but I have limited cool seasons so the Turnips do better. Turnips said different things to a cook's imagination in the time before refrigeration when people still had root cellars.

Varieties below. The White one is mild and very good in salads or in Japanese Soup. (Throw it and some green onions chopped and raw in your Ramen noodles.) You can slice the Rutabaga thin and in strips and use it like noodles in soup. Both of them can be mashed with potatoes for Thanksgiving or Chrismas or anytime dinners.

Rare Seeds

Tokinashi Turnips, about 50 days to maturity.

Navone Rutabaga about 95 days to maturity.

There are a lot of other seed companies that offer other varieties.

FreeRepublic Gardening Thread

Questions about growing or cooking them? Check out the Gardening thread.

[ChildOfThe60s]

do they even sell turnips and parsnips and rutabagas anymore???

We regulary consume all three. My wife is diabetic so we roast a lot of veggies. Shop at Kroger, BTW.

Another good one that is harder to find is kohlrabi.

[Domestic Church]

I grew up eating rutabagas alongside the Thanksgiving turkey and the turkey for Christmas as well. they were mashed with lots of butter, salt and pepper and they were delicious with the gravy.