...to eat a mess of turnip greens or two in my life, but I never have really been that fond of the turnip itself over the years. Part of it is the thing that probably every kid has run into--you see your mom cooking something that looks like wonderful starchy buttery boiled potatoes, and you sneak one out of the bowl and it turns out to to be a turnip. They just don't do it for me. Then again, I've never had them the way Kitchen Hand fixes them.
Although, since my pot pretty much stays on a constant low boil (so to speak), it might be best to skip them.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at September 18, 2006 11:55 AMSo that's what Miss Kathie has been using on Steevil all these years.
Posted by: Janis Gore at September 18, 2006 12:03 PMSteevil? Confirmation, please sir.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at September 18, 2006 12:18 PMActually, have never noticed that supposed effect, so still will only tolerate the things once a year. Had I known of their reputation earlier, I might have been interested, since with my various maladies and meds, I was down to barely simmering for a few months.
Posted by: steevil (Dr Weevil's bro Steve) at September 18, 2006 12:44 PMWell, as our Antipodean Epicurus notes, they're a darn site cheaper than oysters.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at September 18, 2006 12:55 PMEven worse, I'm allergic to oysters.
Posted by: steevil (Dr Weevil's bro Steve) at September 18, 2006 12:58 PMAnd they're treyf.
We got some little baby turnips at the beginning of the season of our CSA. They're really nice just cut up into a salad. The larger ones don't do it for me either.
Posted by: skinnydan at September 18, 2006 12:59 PMI sense a run on turnips in Baltimore...
I will eat them cut up small in with a plate of greens, but they better have been cooked in a lot of butter beforehand.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at September 18, 2006 01:06 PMDan,
Remember this guy?
http://www.ok.org/Content.asp?ID=196
Posted by: steevil (Dr Weevil's bro Steve) at September 18, 2006 01:15 PMI'm not a big fan of cooked turnips (or greens), but I do remember peeling and eating raw turnips straight out of the garden when I was a kid, and they were very good.
Posted by: skillzy at September 18, 2006 01:16 PMTerry, about that pot- you've got to keep it dry or it won't stay lit.
Posted by: Nate at September 18, 2006 02:57 PMIs that anything like trying to smoke a turkey?
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at September 18, 2006 03:20 PMSo, would you guys say that "the turnip effect" was a ruse used by Roman matrons to get all their boys to eat their vegetables?
Oh, surely not.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at September 18, 2006 05:02 PM