Re: [gardeners] Cooked Turnips!
David G. Smith (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sat, 02 Jan 1999 18:34:59 -0500
Sounds like my MIL's cooking -- boil any sort of vegetable in a lot of
water with no salt or other seasoning, and put it in a dish long enough
before dinner that it isn't hot when you eat it. It is truly sad what
happens to nice yellow squash.
David
>Well, yeah! I like pickled turnips, made some the other day but I regard
>them as the raw variety, not cooked. Here's a partial explanation on why
>I don't like turnips and turnip greens nor collards. My mother could
>grow those items when nothing else would grow and would serve them at
>every meal as long as they lasted. We weren't poor or anything, she was
>just "thrifty" as she put it. Really and truly, the only thing good
>about my mom's cooking was that it was free! She learned to cook from
>her mother who was born in 1862 and learned to cook on a fireplace.
>Everything was cooked to pieces, boiled or fried to death, and
>unseasoned. Mom was from Oklahoma if that explains anything. But, yeah,
>I do like them pickled turnips. Burrrp!
>
>George
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>Kay Lancaster wrote:
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>> Not even Arabic turnip pickles, George?
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