Turnips
 

So my good friend grows a huge garden and dropped off cucumbers, zucchini, corn and TURNIPS. What the heck can I do with turnips?

Air fry them for turnip chips, cut them thin or use a madolin
Boil them with a few parsnips and potatoes for divine mashed taters
Roast them
I like them in stews

Cube and simmer with turnip greens. We had turnip and greens all the time growing up with cornbread and a pot of beans with ham. We love mashed turnips, like mashed potatoes.

bury in the compost pile. drop them off in a forest for the bunnies. Mother used to try to slip them into the stew sometimes and I'd smell them coming in the door. The rest of the bounty, yum yum!!

My husband, the never could gardener, had a large crop of turnips mysteriously turn up in his garden. Sadly, we didn't even eat one of them. I fondly remember eating raw turnips as a child to humor my friend next door. They weren't that awful.

Stew was the first thing I thought of. I had a stew at a pot luck. It was good and so I asked the person who made it what was in it She told me that she put a turnip in it.

I don't remember how we had them as a kid, but I do know we ate them. My son turned me on to "Slap ya Mama" seasoning that was on brussel sprouts and they were really good.

Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
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My MIL fixed turnip greens once and I had tried them. Not pleasant to my taste so I quickly ate a bite of potato. NOT. It was a turnip. Never made that mistake again. My DH said they were not bad to eat raw. I passed on that 😝

Why not be honest with your neighbour?
Ask what you should do with said turnips?

Maybe s/he detests them and were glad to dump them on you? :)

Or if you already know you don't like or want these turnips, then fess up ... and return them to the neighbour and suggest that someone else may enjoy them far more then you ever could.

There's always the food bank ...... if anyone there would want them?

the joke here in Kalama (4 block town) is don't leave your vehicle doors unlocked when downtown in the summer, you will come back to find a back seat full of 3 foot zucchini :)

If you were closer I'd come get them.

Me Too!!!

Love turnip! Turnip needs a frost to sweeten them but can be ate the way they are. Cook with carrots and mash,cook alone mash with butter and a wee bit of brown sugar. Great is stews as mentioned .

Unless greens are cooked right they will taste bitter and strong with an unpleasant aftertaste. Greens like turnip, mustard, and collards have to be simmered with the right seasoning. If you buy large can of Seasoned turnip greens in a can and add a small can of unseasoned, simmer with beef or chicken stock they will be perfect. Fresh greens are really too much work to wash five times, destem and have wilt down to fit the pot. My grandmother always had turnip or collard greens growing or bought. She said they kept you healthy.

there are collards already washed and picked. I have made them in a skillet and Instant pot. Came out great.

I eat them raw, slice them up sprinkle some salt on them and have at it! My siblings and I have been eating them that way since we were kids. Same with tomatoes, wash them off and eat them like an apple. Raw green beans, radishes, slices of the turnips cucumbers, just about any fresh veggie that can be eaten raw Mom and Dad kept in the frig for us to grab and eat.

Indeed they will! They are a powerhouse of B vitamins. Eat them all winter to avoid colds.

My nutritionist encouraged me to eat lots of greens. I mostly eat kale or spinach with the occasional pot of mustard greens or chard. Lots of iron in the spinach. Maybe that's why when so many of friends are having problems with being anemic, my iron is actually high. I love greens and eat lots. It seems to be working for me.

My mom grew up in the Dirty 30's and one thing that actually would grow on their land, was turnips. She hated them so much, that she never planted them in her garden and we never ate them, growing up. I honestly don't know what they taste like or how to prepare them. Are they similar to parsnips? Or rutabagas?

I'm not particularly fond (finger down the throat) of wilted greens of any sort. It is a texture issue for me, so pretty sure I would be tossing the leafy part if it was in my house.

I love mashed turnip - cook till soft, drain and mash with butter salt, pepper and a tiny bit of brown sugar or maple syrup. And love 'em raw too! DH's family wouldn't even try them raw when I took raw veggies to a meal ... but then if you couldn't douse it in sugar, they didn't eat it.

Thanks to all the suggestions. Years back I took a full roasting pan of root vegetables for Thanksgiving and held my breath thinking everyone would hate them. Imagine my surprise when I went back for seconds and found they were all gone!!! Even the kids went after them.
So, I did try the simplest suggestion. I sliced it thin, cooked until soft, drained and sprinkled with salt and added a little butter. Much to my surprise - we both liked it. I was imagining a pungent taste, but it's actually mild and that seems to fit my (now) bland-ish taste buds.
Thanks everyone.

I have added a turnip or two to potatoes when cooking potatoes for mashing. Real good.

I love creamed turnips. TURNIPS, CREAMED

1 lg turnip, peeled & diced

2 T white sugar

2 T butter

2 T flour

1 cup milk

Salt/pepper

Place the turnip in a saucepan with enough water to cover the cubes, bring to a boil, cover and reduce heat to med-low. Simmer 5 min, drain and return turnip to saucepan.

Return pan to med heat. Pour enough fresh water over the turnips to cover, add the sugar. Bring to a boil; cover, reduce heat to med-low and simmer until turnip pieces are fork tender, drain.

Melt the butter in a separate pan over med-high heat. Stir the flour into the butter to make a roux. Whisk in the milk until the mixture thickens. Add the turnips and stir gently to coat. Season with salt and pepper.

As someone said, mash them with potatoes. 1/3 turnip & 2/3 potato.
We were given green beans and I steamed them but they were too tough and stringy. I put them through the blender with hot chicken broth. I ran the blender extra long to ensure the stringy stuff was gone. Then I froze the mixture to be used for soup base. I’ll add ham and diced carrots and onions. Similar to split pea soup.

Just spotted this turnip recipe and thought I would add it to this thread ...
https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/...s-with-greens/

No, I have not made it, nor will I be trying it as I am one of the
"turnips are gagworthy" people in this world!!

On the upside, I will say, it's bound to be good!!
Why you ask? I've never had a bad recipe from Taste of Home, and there's been a lot over the years!! In fact, many of my best and most favourite came from Taste of Home.

So I hope the QB turnip fans here give it a try ... and let us know its rating!!

I cooked a pot of turnips and greens. Yesterday I heated a bowl up for myself. I had my four years old great with me and he wanted a bite. He loved them. He ate the whole bowl . I made fried skillet cornbread and he liked that too.
He said he liked 'hot licker' (potlikker). LOL

Yuck, yuck & double yuck. I HATE turnips. As a Kid my father knew I hated them & he'd pile my plate full of mashed turnips. I couldn't leave the table until I ate them, so I'd sit there staring at them until 9PM & then be sent to bed. I never ate turnips again. I refuse to even touch a turnip!