Posted on 12/21/2020 12:53:01 PM PST by mylife
Buckle up everybody, for I am here to defend and exalt turnips. In fact, I’d go so far as to claim that turnips, when mashed, are better than their potato counterparts, and a far more interesting vehicle for gravy. Cooked turnips are firm yet velvety, slightly nutty, and bring a bit more oomph to your holiday spread. But, full disclosure, my not all of my turnip-eating Christmases have been merry.
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They don’t replace mashed potatoes. They are a great complement. Always serve both on Thanksgiving. If anyone is ever on the North Fork of Long Island from April to Dec the Modern Snack Bar makes great mashed turnips and sells them frozen.
Eat yer taters! ;)
I like taters!
Mmm Hmm...
That recipe sounds delish.
And the “turnip fluff” description is hilarious!
whataburger french fried potaters and that spicy ketchup... Mmm Hmm..
Everything in the universe is either a potato or not a potato.
The humble Jerusalem Artichoke is vastly superior to both turnips and potatoes mashed. It has a nutty, light succulent flavor that has notes of sweetness and a very fluffy consistency. Ignore that this gift from nature is maligned with the name Fatichoke and contains a starch indigestible by humans but much loved by the bacteria in our guts. Ignore the massive amounts of eye watering and nostril burning hydrogen sulphide which will emanate quite loudly from the eater’s bowels about 20 minutes after consumption, rather look at it as the perfect thing to take to a church pitch in. Adding onions, eggs and cheese to the mash is highly recommended as these flavors complement the mash perfectly and a side of beans is the perfect accompaniment. Highly recommended for the pitch ins after sermons involving The Walls of Jericho being trumpeted down.
I think James Joyce wrote that.
Making people fart in Church sold me. :)
Hey! That’s copyright violation for using me in that GIF!
You are quite a wordsmith and practical joker
;)
These are no run of the mill farts. These are the run for the hills kind where breathing apparatus is required.
They truly are delicious but the after effects are severe. No other food produces the sheer gas volume nor the utter rankness of emanations.
Turnips are forever being “discovered”.
Turnips can be subbed for potatoes in soups and stews, but so can radishes.
Radishes can also be used to make a really good faux-tato salad. Boiled, chopped eggs, pickle relish, minced onion, mayo and a bit of mustard added to steamed or braised radishes (well drained and patted dry), dash of cayenne, salt and pepper.
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When you go to one of them Maine “beenie and wienie Church suppahs” you know what you’re getting into, but you slipped them the bomb.
Diced turnips and sweet potatoes lightly sauteed in olive oil are great.
To my knowledge, I’ve never had turnips. Well, maybe once a long long time ago. I don’t really remember much about them.
This article is enough to get me to try them (again), and I make some darn great mashed potatoes, if I must say!
Don’t toss them radish greens either, but they have to be used fast.
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