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I don't want to hijack the Turnip soup thread.


Does anyone like rutabegas and parsnips.

We love to roast beef with root crops; potatos, carrots, parsnips, turnips, and rutabegas.

Put the veggies on your plate, smash, add butter and horseradish (another rootcrop), and hit it with some of the broth.

Damn, we will l be eating this soon.

they rank right up there with turnips and broccoli, Brussels Sprouts and Asparagus as crap I won't eat. laughing

I eat all of those. That’s fine eating! You can add beets to that list too

My grandfather ruined many a stew with a rutabaga.

Not only are they terrible, but they are hard to grow.

Parsnips are also a tool of the devil......I had a bad experience once.

Rutabaga is pretty standard in beef or venison stew and new england boiled dinner in the circles I grew up in. Lots of my extended family like it cubed and boiled or mashed too. Not my favorite, but it doesn't ruin a meal.

Never had either and from the replies I doubt that I ever will but ya never know....I'll try dam near anything.
I doubt that I'll go looking for it though.

I love parsnips. Can't recall ever eating a rutabaga

Don’t eat much in the way of rutabagas or turnips. No real reason, I like them well enough.

Parsnips though get eaten a fair bit. They are a must in any barley soup. Lamb and barley being my favorite! Great roasted with carrots or mashed with potatoes too.

Hmmm.........Barley soup's one of my favorites. Maybe I will go looking for some parsnips after all.

I make Beef barley but I might try some Lamb too.

Mutton beats lamb in every way.....but a good mutton is hard to find.



Rutabagas, parsnips and turnips are not as bad as I let on.

Not my favorites, but I do eat them.

I've never had mutton Jim and the only Lamb I ever ate was the leg of Lamb a friend used to make at deer camp every year. It was dam good though.

I've eaten turnips but not the other two.....the turnips were ok but didn't impress me enough to go out and buy some.

A little trivia - in some areas rutabagas are called white turnips

Like all root veggies, I like them best marinated then grilled. I cook an assortment always including onion of one variety or another,

Cut into similar size pieces small enough to eat in one or two bites but big enough not to fall thru grill. coated with extra virgin olive oil, salt , pepper, granulated garlic, fresh thyme and rosemary.

Let marinate for a an hour at room temp.

Cook on grill how you like them. I like a nice med char and with a slight firmness.

I dice up:
A big onion.
A carrot or two
A parsnip or two
A stalk of celery or two

And then chop up a left over leg of lamb.


Saute the veg for a few in your soup pot with a bit of olive oil, add some S&P and fresh thyme. Or whatever you want want for that matter.

Toss in the chopped meat (I usually season the lamb roast pretty heavily when I roast it, so it adds a good bit of seasoning to the soup as well).

Add beef stock and barley. Simmer away.

Two of my favorites from child hood! Rutabegas were always in boiled dinners and parsnips were sliced and fried in butter. Nowadays I usually cut them up and roast them drizzled with olive oil. Never had turnips till I started planting them in food plots. They're pretty tasty too.

You've just described a root mash made all over Europe. Just mash it all the way up and add some chicken broth.

Young thin sliced turnip fried in butter just like homefried taters with salt and pepper will change ones mind about turnip. Very good

My wife and I both love parsnips. We use them along with carrots in pot roast, corned beef, short ribs, you get the picture. In I rate them above a carrot in flavor after they're cooked. We also like turnips, but I've never had a rutabega. What do they taste like?

Mike

That's pretty much the way I make it cept I use chuck diced pretty small.

The ones I've had are milder and sweeter than turnips.