Post Punk Kitchen Forum

One of my all time favorite Sesame Street bits ever. The best part is when the librarian just loses his shiitake and then gets "sshhhed." BOOKS!!! JUST BOOKS!Bunniee - are you my long lost child?!

if its covered in wax, its usually a rutabaga/swede. i think they are a bit milder than a turnip. less of that radishy bite.

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Now I'm totally craving rutabaga. I like turnips too though! I like getting a rutabaga and a turnip and a parsnip and a sweet potato and chopping them all up and roasting them. Yum.

This sounds like a plan

I call them turnips though I know that officially they are "rutabagas". Everyone calls them turnips here, unless we are speaking French and then they are naveau or navet.

I agree with whoever said to boil them for a long time then mash with marg, salt and pepper, with a spoonful of brown sugar. Delicious. Or add them to stews.

Arisaig, if you all call rutabagas "turnips" even though you know they are rutabagas, what do you call turnips?

A rutabaga looks like a dirty, shriveled up, old turnip. Turnips are pretty.

Turnip is a dish fit only for Puritans. It's a historically documented fact!

I don't know why I feel compelled to keep checking to see whether turnip or rutabaga is winning the poll.

We don't eat turnips, they are disgusting. Because we have never eaten them.

Just for the record I think it's a rutabaga.

I haven't eaten many rutabagas, only when in the CSA box. They were okay. Turnips, on the other hand, can be quite delectable, especially when you get them young and not too large. Turnip greens are soooooo good. Love me some turnip greens, more than the root itself.

Its a Swede! - lovely mashed with lots of blackpepper and covered in gravy (the chickpea gravy from AFR would be my choice)

Turnips are white and taste vile - unless they are pickled in the middle eastern fashion, that seems to make them acceptable.

I love swede! Especially mashed with carrot, Pure, salt and pepper with my roast dinner. Yum!

I've eaten fresh turnips only as a kinpira with curry powder and liked it. Turnips fermented in the same way as sauerkraut, saure rüben, are more popular than fresh here. Saure rüben are often used in jota stew instead of sauerkraut.

I like Swedes / rutabagas glazed with orange juice.

thats a turnip! (and Wikipedia concurs :) )

yes.

if you call this thing a turnip, and you also call a rutabaga/swede/orangey-yellow-root-vegetable-thing a turnip... doesn't that, like, cause problems in communication?

the yellow orange thing is a Swede. simple :)

BUT then the Scottish got involved with their calling one of them 'neeps' - But I think if the only people who do anything interesting with turnips are the middle eastern's and they pickle turnips - and turnips in this case being the white/pink vegetable then they should be followed.

I can't imagine pickled swede tasting nice, its too peppery... and wouldn't take on the pickled pink colour either

no idea what a rutabadga thing is tho...

i really like the word "neep." i'd like to use it for something--but not this something, obviously, as it is a rutabaga.

No, because they are all absolutely vile and suitable only to avert starvation, should there be no other alternative.

Blasphemy!

I haven't seen very many turnip greens this year - mostly kale and collards at the produce stand.

My grandmother used to cook rutabagas when I was a kid and I hated them. I'm willing to try them again, just not sure where to start.

Round here it's a wurzel, or mangelwurzel. The band is named in their honour:

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There is a huge arse rutabaga on the counter in my inlaws' kitchen right now. It's some big nasty looking pile and yet I want to steal and eat. Want want! Eat eat!