MY TURNIP PATCH
Eveything's looking good in my "cold crop" garden at the YMCA Community Garden.
No one else in my group wanted to plant any fall crops, so I got the whole plot to myself.
They are almost ready to harvest. One of these days soon, I'm going to make a pan of cornbread and have a big plate full of turnips with hot, buttered cornbread on the side. Want to join me?
(You can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl!) : )
posted by Blessed @ 6:33 AM
6 Comments:
What is a person to do with all those turnip greens?
I am sure there is a good recipe out there somewhere....based on the color, they have to be good for you....
Maybe a bowl full + some hard boiled egg, red onion, manderin oranges, cherry tomatoes with some hot bacon dressing?
Raw turnips and a little 'spicy' ranch dressing are one of my favorites...
Man...I'm getting hungry
Peace
Mark A
Are you including the greens? The cornbread sounds good too!
Mark A had me going until he added the hot bacon dressing!
Can we make organic Christmas cookies out of those turnips?? : )
P2
I picked some of mine yesrterday for my dad. We usually just slice them and eat them raw. What's your favorite way to prepare them?
Mary
Just peel and cut into chunks. Boil them until tender, salt and pepper, a little sugar and a LOT of butter!
I guess I'm going to have to harvest and cook the greens too. Or I could take them to Rev. Settles mother. She does something magic to them and are they good! I think it has something to do with bacon grease. :) Anyway, we all seem to being getting that bacon factor in there somewhere.
Cookies? We could surely try. I remember the first time someone made cake frosting with cream cheese. It was the strangest thing we had ever heard of...but my, isn't it good.
Hey, you gals don't seem to know about the old farmers almanac!!! have a look at the recipes for turnips there:
http://www.almanac.com/recipes/search/results.php?keyword=turnips
sorry, the whole url address got cut off... you can check the recipes on almanac.com
by the way in my garden i have frozen brussel sprouts... any good idea for them?!
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