Mitche
Assistant Cook
Can anyone give advise on how to prepare turnips?
Mashed turnips were always part of our Thanksgiving dinner.
Same here. Better than potatoes, as far as I'm concerned.Mashed turnips were always part of our Thanksgiving dinner.
Same here. Better than potatoes, as far as I'm concerned.
It is common in the central New York state area where I grew up.
Thanksgiving was a harvest celebration, the farmers ate what they grew! My Father and my Grandmother used to enjoy looking around the table and pointing out all of the things that had grown in our garden. These days I look around the table and am thankful that I still have the strength, not to mention the money, to get everything home from the supermarket!
If the strong taste or texture of mashed turnips puts you off then add a couple if Irish potatoes to the pot and mash them together. I myself enjoy the mashed turnip with butter, salt and freshly ground black pepper.
I need to try whisking an egg into the finished product!
Also someone on this board gave me a tip about peeling the wax covered rutabagas. Cut the rutabaga in half then into approximately one inch slices, use a paring knife to peel the wax off of each slice. This is much easier and much safer for me than trying to peel the whole turnip!
...If the strong taste or texture of mashed turnips puts you off then add a couple if Irish potatoes to the pot...
We always mashed white and purple turnips, using the same method as with potatoes. Cut into large dice, boil, drain, and mash.The big yellow turnips that we always mashed are often called rutabagas in other parts of the country or swedes in other parts of the world.
We never mashed the white turnips. Are ya'll referring to the same thing, or did you mash white turnips?
What is an Irish potato?
[FONT=times new roman,helvetica]...To make a long story short, an Irish potato is just a common tater!
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