"Sheldon" > wrote

> Nancy Young wrote:

>> He wound up picking them out of the stew too, acknowledging the
>> error of his ways, and nary a turnip has darkened my door since.
>>
>> Nor a rutabega, or a parsnip.
>>
>> nancy (doesn't like turnips)
>
> I enjoy raw turnips, especially rutabagas... cut into sticks they make
> great crudites for dips...

I'm reminded of jicama. My sil had one, she asked me to cut it
up for crudites. All the time I'm cutting (man, those suckers are hard)
I'm thinking, this is going to taste like raw potato, I know it. Sure
enough. I mention that because wouldn't raw turnip be kinda similar?
I might like it that way but I'll never find out.

> but can't stand them cooked. I usually add
> a small purple turnip and a small parsnip to chicken stock, adds great
> flavor... but don't ask me to eat cooked parsnip, blech-gack-gag!

(laugh) Do you grow them anyway, just for stock? I see how they
are grown in terracotta chimney liners or something because they are
too hard to dig up out of the ground.

nancy