In a time long, long ago, I watched my grandmother boil turnips and mash them and then place them on the Thanksgiving table as if offering the sweetest dish imaginable. My dad would sing the praises of this Thanksgiving offering, and as a little girl, I learned to love the purple-orange vegetable of ill-repute.
Decades later, I boiled and mashed and served turnips on my Thanksgiving table. My guy compared turnips to garlic – he disliked both. But turnips became a vegetable my kids learned to revere.
But this year, Thanksgiving was not at my house. This year, we were invited to good friends, who happen to be the parents of our son-in-law. In a wide web of texts between a dozen people, we guests began to offer what we’d bring to “the table.”
“Cajun stuffing and oyster stuffing,” DD texted.
Ugh, I thought, why would anyone ruin stuffing with something from the sea?
“Turducken,” my SIL texted.
Ugh, what’s wrong with the ole tradition of a pilgrim’s turkey? Now we have to eat some combination of turkey, duck and chicken? Yikes.
“Carrot casserole,” a friend of the family suggested in her text.
Carrot? Something healthy on Thanksgiving Day? Ridiculous.
“Ice cream pie,” my guy texted gleefully.
Really? I prefer my daughter’s MIL’s amazing apple pie, or her chocolate pie, that she makes for these special occasions. Who wants ice cream pie in November?
Finally, I decided to chime in with my own text suggestion.
“Turnips! Mashed just right!!”
Silence.
A pause in the frantic texting.
I wait for some enthusiastic emoji, like or .
But nothing.
Finally, an hour later, my SIL’s father, the host of this food-laden dinner, bravely texted
“Oh, sorry Pam. I have strict doctor’s orders not to consume any turnips.”
And then texts from a dozen others who proclaimed:
“Me too!”
“Amazing, I got the same diagnosis!”
“Yeah, turnips give me gas.”
“Never tried them, but have been told I’d never recover if I did.”
So, I brought a zucchini casserole with a wry smile, and truly, joy in the textual fun of family and friends.
Next year, though, perhaps I’ll host Thanksgiving, and sweetly suggest that no one need bring a thing. I’ll cook it all… including a HUGE POT OF MASHED TURNIPS with this little card attached to each Thanksgiving plate:
With a grin and a wink, I wish you all a wonderful weekend of Thanksgiving grace and blessings.
I have only recently rediscovered turnips and I love them! They are so easy to roast and they have such a wonderful taste. Hope you enjoyed your family Thanksgiving despite the lack of turnips!
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I swallowed my disappointment with a mound of mashed potatoes covered in gravy. Ha ha. Great day with family, which is what really matters. Well, a side of turnips makes it perfect. 🙂
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I roasted turnips last night-absolutely delicious. Can’t believe I never tried them this way before. Thanks for the encouragement. 🤓
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Hated them as a child but love them now.
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Isn’t it funny how our ‘taste buds’ change, Mary? I was like that with curried chicken. If my mom tried to serve me curried chicken, I’d run from the table and cry in my room until bed time. Now, I order it when at my favorite restaurant every time I go out for lunch, on a bed of lettuce and surrounded by fruit slices. Hmm, I bet curried chicken would taste good with turnips! 🙂
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Always use them in soup!
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I just started popping cubed turnips in soups and crockpot stews. Hide them that way from my guy – he doesn’t have a clue. My revenge. Har har har.
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I love hearing about people’s special Thanksgiving traditions. I can’t say that mashed turnips would be my first choice, but I would definitely try them if you brought them.
There will probably be something about this in my Monday Morning Musings. 🙂
Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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I’ll look forward to reading your Monday musings. I wish my dad was still around and I could ask him how the turnip tradition started. We have a lot of English and Dutch ‘blood’ in us, so it may have come from our European ancestors. Who must have been very healthy people. 🙂
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A Mexican friend who did several of the set designs at Albright College, where my younger daughter went to school, makes “turnip surprise.” It’s for students in the shows if they get a cold or sore throats. They gargle with it. She told me the “surprise” is how awful it tastes. 😉
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Now that’s a new one! That’s one way I don’t think I want to ‘enjoy’ turnips. :-0
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I love mashed turnips! My grandmother made them for me as well. They don’t know what they are missing! Happy Thanksgiving!
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Remember the ole commercial: “Try it! You’ll like it!” Too many people don’t know what they’re missing when they TURN UP their noses at TURNIPS. 🙂
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I’ve never eaten a turnip…whole or mashed. I don’t know, but ice cream pie sounded pretty good!
I hope you and your family had a wonderful day, Pam. xo
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Ohhh, Jill, please! Try some mashed turnips with salt and pepper. Or cube some in your next stew. You might be surprised. As far as the ice cream pie…hmmm, you’re right. A tiny sliver of it next to a sliver of pumpkin pie is j u s t r I g h t . 🙂
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Turnips are one of the most requested and appreciated parts of our festive meals – by every family member. Your text would get a smiley face emoji from us.
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Ohhhh, Arlene – what a smart healthy family you have!! I’m sharing your comment with some of my, ahem, not so smart family members. Here’s a smiley face just for you. 🙂
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We’ve always had turnips at our festive meals. Mashed turnips and mashed potatoes. Yum! 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving holiday to you and your family.
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Yum indeed, Carol. Hope you enjoyed your turnips on my behalf this year. ❤
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Pam, I hope you and yours had a lovely Thanksgiving. Turnip always was and still is one of my favorite foods on Thanksgiving. I wish you lots of buttery mashed turnips next year!
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I think I might not wait for next Thanksgiving, Amy. I’m thinking the Christmas meal may need a sudden surprise. Turnips, anyone?? 🙂
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Me! Me!
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I was waiting for the punchline, and wasn’t disappointed! Great writing! And I actually like turnips. So glad they have all of those health benefits!
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I must admit, I’ve always enjoyed turnips (and glad to hear you do too), and was surprised when I researched them for this post and found all those healthy benefits. A double reward!!
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We only put a turnip (1) in a soup but my girl friend introduced me to turnip stew with lots of turnips. It was really good. I have to revisit this vegetable and see if I like it mashed.
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I hope you try it, Kate, and tell me the results. Here’s a secret that I learned from my mom. After boiling the turnips cubes so they’re soft enough to mash, add a little orange juice (instead of milk), with butter, salt and tiny bit of pepper as you mash them. Somehow, they always come out just right. Of course, a spoonful of gravy on top adds to the perfection.
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I smiled all the way through this! 🙂
As a child, I didn’t like turnips either, something about the after-taste didn’t agree with me. I’m a potato girl when it comes to root veggies. However, on Thanksgiving day, I’d try yours and not make such a big fuss about it.
When my kids were little, I thought liver was very healthy for them (?) and served the dish smothered in lots of onions. Because they turned up their noses, I may even have lied about it a time or two and said I was serving pork chops. Bad Momma!
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Oh, funny Momma – to trick your kids into eating liver. Good job! I remember eating lots of liver (which I disliked immensely) when I was pregnant because it was supposed to be so good for me and the baby growing inside. Haven’t had any since, believe me!
Re the mashed turnips – as I told Kate, above, boil them nice and soft and mash with a little bit of OJ, salt and pepper. I think you might be surprised – no aftertaste, I promise. 🙂
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We’re now in North Carolina. Yesterday we gobbled up my New England daughter-in-law’s mashed turnips (called rutabagas here). But we have not developed a taste for candied sweet potatoes embedded with miniature marshmallows.
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Ohhh, sounds like you had a great NE feast. Yes, I’ve never quite figured out the difference between turnip and rutabaga. Probably the same vegetable, just different name. Turnips/rutabagas are for ‘adults,’ candied sweet potatoes are for ‘kiddies.’ There, that’s what I think. Hope you’re having a great time in North Carolina.
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I think turnips must have been cheaper than potatoes when I was a kid and I was always disappointed when the mashed ones turned up on the table instead of my favorite food, mashed potatoes. I haven’t eaten them since but need to try them roasted.
My special food at Thanksgiving goes back to the first ones we shared with another couple many years ago. She was German and loved sweet and sour red cabbage. Wow…that cuts through all the heavy food and tastes SO good! But no one else in the family will eat it and now I can’t find it in stores. Oh well.
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I have several German friends who love sweet and sour red cabbage. Have you visited Gerlinde’s Sunny Cove blog – http://www.sunnycovechef.com/ ? She would probably be able to tell you how to find it/make it. She’s an exceptional cook who grew up in Germany and lives in CA now.
I have never roasted a turnip – it’s on my to-do list sometime the next week or so. 🙂
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Ha ha. I don’t like turnips mashed. I cube them to cook and in another pot cubed carrots. When done, I mix them together and add butter and a touch of nutmeg.
Wish you luck next Thanksgiving. I have to laugh. Pay-back time. Can’t wait to hear about it then. 😀
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Well, Tess, I happen to love the sound of your turnip/carrot recipe. I’m going to try it soon and tell my guy its cubed carrots. Bet he’ll never guess there are turnips in there. 🙂
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Turnips are Steckrüben in German and I hated them as a child. They were used in soups by the poor and hungry people during bad times. I remember the smell when my mother made them. Okay Pam, I will make some mashed turnips and see if I like them.
I love reading your posts, they always lift me up and make me smile.
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I love making you smile. I just referred Esther Miller (who commented in my post here) to your blog; she’s searching for sweet and sour red cabbage. Bet you can tell her how to do that.
Let me know if you try the mashed turnips. The secret is to boil them soft, then mash with orange juice (instead of milk), some butter, salt and pepper. And of course, if you put a dollop (or more) of gravy on top, it’s even better.
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Here is a link for my red cabbage
http://www.sunnycovechef.com/sweet-and-sour-red-cabbage.html
I bought some turnips yesterday and made mashed turnips with potatoes tonight. I didn’t use your recipe, I used the hot water that I boiled the turnips and potatoes in, some butter and cream. I will make them with orange juice the next time. They didn’t smell at all and didn’t taste bad. 😀
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I’m so glad I inspired you to make your pot of mashed turnips! Knowing the kind a cook you are, I know they were delicious. 😘
Thanks for your red cabbage recipe-that’s so wonderful of you to share.
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Haha! I love turnips in soup but I’ve never had them mashed. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Try turnips mashed sometime – with gravy! You may become a convert. 🙂
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Think I can get that by my houseful of men? Maybe lots of gravy – good suggestion!
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Loved this post! I am laughing out loud! Gotta say I never had mashed turnips and I am very afraid! Happy Thanksgiving Pam!
Sharon
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Don’t be afraid of turnips! They’re really nice when you get to know them. 🙂
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I will have to try them when my kids aren’t looking… When I mentioned your post they made faces! LOL
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Curious, ‘oh-that-sounds-good’ faces, right? 🙂 🙂
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Yes, I always like to think positive! 🙂
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My husband loves them. He even eats them raw, sometimes in between two pieces of buttered bread. I don’t like them.
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Laughing! I read your comment out lout to my guy. He can’t even eat turnips mashed, but ‘real men’ eat them raw between buttered bread. Yay for your husband!!!
Now, how can we make YOU a convert? 🙂
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No way! My mother tried, my husband tried….I just don’t like them at all. Cooked or otherwise.
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Ooooo, kayyyyy. Oh, last idea – smoother them in hot fudge?? 🙂
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Welll……I’ll eat the fudge! 😀
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You’ve just given me 10 more reasons to eat turnip. I’ve never met a turnip dish I didn’t like … including mashed 🙂
I would much rather eat turnip than potatoes.
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So much fun to find turnip lovers like you out there, Joanne. What’s your favorite turnip dish? I pretty much have stuck with mashed or cubed into a crockpot stew. Others are talking about roasted turnips, which I think I gotta try. ❤
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I’ve roasted, stewed, souped, mashed, and boiled turnips and loved them all. I’d be hard pressed to say which I liked best, although mashed is probably what I make the most.
I loved roasted turnips a lot – roasting draws out such a wonderful flavour to root vegetables. Any leftover roasted turnips I end up mashing – although I should mention I like my mashed-anything to be chunky not smooth.
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Okay – tomorrow night — roasted turnips!! Can’t wait.
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I just tried roasting them-absolutely delicious. You are a girl after my own heart. 💚
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I’m going grocery shopping today. Guess what’s on the list? 🙂
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Next time, just say that you are bringing a “veggie dish”. Perhaps then cynics would them….and discover that they actually like them!
Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving, Pam!
Donna
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Great idea. I’ll just keep the cover on the casserole dish until the meal begins. 🙂 It was a great Thanksgiving, Donna, as I hope yours was. As always – just goes by too fast. xo
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I love this post! It shows, once again, that you can’t please everyone, so you might as well please yourself. Next year you can do that. PS. I love turnips.
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Of course you love turnips – that’s why we knew we liked each other right away, even though we’ve never met ‘in person.’ 🙂 Hope you’re having a great holiday weekend, shopless with lots of writing and dog loving thrown in, Anneli.
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LOL! That must be it!
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Well I’m glad I’m in the UK and well away from turnips on the table, boiled, mashed or otherwise… but never mischievous you!
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You’re funny. My ancestors are English, and they happened to L O V E turnips. 🙂
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Sounds like quite a meal. I’d pass on the turducken too.
Great aunt Edie (Scottish) served mashed turnips and potatoes ~> Tatties and Neeps!
With butter ~> YUMMY!
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Tatties and Neeps – now you’re talking! Perhaps if I tell everyone next year that I’m serving Tatties with our turkey, no one will say a word?? 🙂
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I love mashed turnips.
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Well of course you love mashed turnips, Sabra. All poets do, don’t you think? xo
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What is Thanksgiving without the family traditions!!! I’m not a fan of turnips but I wouldn’t mind seeing them at the table. As for ice cream dessert…that’s out of the question. Apple pie or pumpkin pie has to be served!!!(with whipped cream on top of the pumpkin and vanilla ice cream on the apple pie)
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I like a woman who knows her mind, Karen….and her Thanksgiving meal. 🙂 As always, you tell it like it is. ❤
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I love turnips—even eat them raw. But the rest of my family passes on them. They don’t know what they’re missing. It must be a grandmother thing, I remember my grandmother serving them too.
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I’ve never considered eating turnips raw, Mary, but you’re not the first commenter of this post who has mentioned that they do. I’ll try it – plenty of salt sprinkled on, I imagine. When you look at the health benefits, I’m surprised more don’t add raw turnips when they serve appetizers!
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One year I didn’t have enough turnips to mash so I took my two turnips, added a yam and two carrots, mashed them up, added butter and a touch of nutmeg and cinnamon. It was a hit and the nay-sayers against turnips didn’t believe they actually ate some! LOL! Love this post and hope you had a really great Thanksgiving. . . 🙂
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I’m going to try your ‘surprise’ dish at our next holiday gathering. I think it sounds really good. Yes, we had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and my zucchini casserole was a hit. Except for me — I want my fresh zucchini in the summer, and my turnips in the fall/winter! :-0
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What?? You didn’t bring turnips? Next year no backing down, Pam. BTW – I’m with you on turducken. The thought of it is obscene.
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Laughing about your perfect word for turducken. A student in my writing class admitted that she makes turducken herself, boning each bird and making three different stuffings to place in between the combined concoction. I couldn’t NOT say anything. Hope she comes back to class! But I suppose some people think that turnips are obscene. Sigh.
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Ha ha. Wow, your student takes a lot of time with her turducken; I’m sure it tasty (still…ew). Your turnips sound wonderful, Pam. I’d eat ’em. 🙂
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I’ve never eaten turnips either, but I may have to give them a try. And I have to admire your family’s resourcefulness in making sure no turnips reached the table this Thanksgiving. Although personally, I would have rather tried the mashed turnips instead of the turducken! A funny and heartwarming post, thanks.
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Ann, I encourage you to try turnips – REALLY! I mean, look at all those health benefits. Of course, when I give that card of benefits to my family, I think it will give them more reasons to think turnips are not for them. 🙂
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I love this post. So cute and funny. I grew up eating my parents farm raised turnips. I cook then with onion and potatoes for a very fulfilling dish. They are wonderful.
If I’m lucky I get some seed planted in early Fall and have my very own turnip greens and some small turnips to cook. I don’t have any this year. Drats but, I can go to the grocery store for some. 🙂
is food too.
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Hey, I think I’ll try to plant some turnips in our spring garden-great idea! 👍
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I know you’ll be glad that you planted the seeds when you harvest your very own greens and/or turnips.
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wow! you brought good memories of that delectable dish!!! I will buy some soon
and mash them up with loads of butter! thx for the old-time reminder!
you should’ve made a bowl for yourself!!! :))))))) pat
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You know what, Pat? I SHOULD HAVE!!! But we have another winter holiday meal coming up – Christmas. And guess what I’m gonna serve????!!!! 🙂 Let me know how your turnip dish turns out. xoxox
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Ha! They sound like a good group of people (even if they don’t appreciate the benefits of turnips!).
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A great group of people who just don’t know any better. But I, being their loving friend/mom-in-law/mother of daughter-in-law, auntie/ madre/ wife, shall make it my loving duty to teach them to love turnips — if it takes a dozen more Thanksgiving meals to do so. 😉
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Persistence! (And if that doesn’t work, perhaps their taste buds will diminish as they age and they will start enjoying them because of that.)
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Oh Pam, this is hilarious! Seems that humour sugared the taste of (turnip) rejection! Anyways, in case you don’t know it, just HAD to point you in the direction of this old story which I remember from my childhood – enjoy!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00DH4VYGU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Love and much thanks for your friendship, humour and wisdom…shared always with such generosity. Blessings, Harula xxx
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I just ordered the book (from US Amazon) – how perfect! It will be on the holiday-laden table this Christmas – with a mashed turnip casserole next to it. Tee hee. And who knew that Tolstoy loved turnips?? ❤
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LOL – see! You’re in very fine company my friend! Oh I love the idea of a ‘book course’ on the dinner table…we need a break in between all that food right? So a bit of light reading in between starter and main, and then between main and desert – perfect! Hugs, H xxx
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We had lots of turnips growing up and we actually made turnip lanterns for Halloween, before pumpkins became available over here (very hard to carve!). But we enjoy our turnips mashed with carrots – this is quite popular in the UK, you can even buy turnip and carrot mash ready made to heat up.
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That’s the next turnip casserole I will try-with mashed carrots also. Sounds great . 👍
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Can’t remember the last time I had turnips. I’m sure there’s a logical explanation for that. 😉 Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!
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I can’t think of one logical explanation that you haven’t had turnips for a long time. Unless it was upon doctor’s orders. Ha Ha. But after seeing all of these benefits, doctors should be encouraging EVERYONE to eat more turnips!! 🙂
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Ahh, Pam…your posts always leave me giggling and this one is no exception. I can just imagine that text hour of silence after your suggestion and then everyone jumping on the bandwagon of the mysterious anti-turnip disease. I think it sounds interesting and I’m a great fan of mash and swede, just delicious. What a great idea with the card about the turnip’s benefits – who knew and it will be great conversation piece! Must say though I’m also tempted by your zucchini casserole – yummy! Hope you all had a wonderful time of celebrations. Warmest wishes to you.
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I used to have loads of zucchini recipes, but I must admit, these days I just google “zucchini casserole” and find lots of varieties. For this meal, I combined zucchini and squash cubes and some fresh tomato and tomato sauce, mozzarella and cheddar cheese, and some spices. Everyone seem to enjoy it a lot…or perhaps maybe they were just happy I didn’t bring my turnip dish. :-0 Cheers!
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Oh no they all like it…that sounds delicious!
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Cleans teeth? Well that seals the deal. Out with the electric toothbrush, no more toothpaste.
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Ah, #8 – I had missed that benefit! Yup, rubbing turnip on the ole teeth right now. 🙂
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I love this post, Pam, having turnips as the main topic! Recently, we joined an organic food coop, so every 2 weeks, we get a delivery of organic vegetables. The first batch had a lot of turnips, carrots, and potatoes, plus leeks and squash, so we cut them all up, drizzled olive oil over it all in a large casserole dish, added a little salt and pepper, and baked them. Delicious! I think I will try turnips again, now knowing their health benefits. Thank you!
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True, who ever guessed ‘TURNIPS’ would be a subject for blogging? And yet, I seemed to have hit a revelation here – people seem to either love ’em or hate ’em. Your organic food coop sounds fabulous – just the idea for ‘eating local’ and healthy. Yum.
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Yum, I love mashed turnips. You’re hanging out with the wrong people lol! I do have to admit, they can be a challenge to peel though. 🙂
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Okay, don’t tell anyone. I buy the turnips already peeled and cubeb in my local grocery store, and thank them enormously for doing the ‘dirty’ work. ❤
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Lol, ok,well, while we’re confessing, so do I! Love them! ❤
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We are smart cooks!!! 😀
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Oh ya! 🙂
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I love turnips too and love putting them in casseroles in winter… this post made me chuckle!
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I might have to try turnips again – I had no idea they did all that! Maybe it’s the way they were cooked, but for some reason the last few times I tried them, they seemed to taste like earwax. I’m glad you had a fun Thanksgiving (with or without the earwax)!
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I promise my turnips did not taste like earwax! I just tried someone’s suggestion and roasted them. Peeled and cut them up into a medium sized cubes. Tossed them in olive oil with a little nutmeg and salt.Placed on a flat roasting pan in the oven at 425 for about 25 minutes. Yum Yum Yum. Try-you’re like it! 😀
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Ohhh nobody wanted the turnips 😉 I’ll have a slice of the ice cream pie, if there’s any left hehe!
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That ice cream pie went really really fast. I kind of ate my words on it-because I probably took the biggest slice. 🙄
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Oh did your hosts and fellow guests miss out on a treat. Great post. Thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you. 🎄
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Late to the turnip patch but happy to say my son makes a delicious “root vegetables casserole” that is buttery, creamy and chunky! He uses all the underground veggies, carrots, onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes and turnips. Occasionally he throws in rutabagas! 😉
A butter, flour and cream sauce is what makes this yummy, Pam!
We all eat his concoction since he is the chef at a simple restaurant and cooks for every party as well as comes home from work and cooks for his wife and kids. 🙂
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Your son’s root vegetable casserole sounds absolutely delicious! Do you share the creamy sauce that he cooks it all in? 🙏
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Best part of the post was the ending! Ha, doctors orders…..They don’t know what they are missing and not that most doctors know very much about nutrition either. Silly people 🙂
Peta
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Thanks for your fun comment about the great and wonderful turnip. Perhaps we should shout out to the world all of the healthy benefits of this root vegetable! 🌰
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I hated turnips as a kid but love them now. Clearly those doctors were not nutritionists! Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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Just discovered turnips after someone bought us some at a local market. Delicious!
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And think how healthy you are now! 🙂
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OK, it is Christmas Eve and I am just now reading your Thanksgiving post about turnips. I would never eat them in any form as a child but then I didn’t like sweet potatoes either and now I boil and mash them with a little butter. Husband loves them. Now I will have to try mashed turnips and put some in my winter soups. Yes, who know turnips would get so many comments? It must be your creative writing! Cheers!
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Well, it’s a month after Christmas and I just saw your TURNIP comment. Ha ha. No, I never expected so many people to have ‘turnip’ stories – seems like people either love ’em or hate ’em. Hoping you love ’em in those stews of yours, as well as mashed. A great winter treat. xo
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I have always said if I could only pick one vegetable for Thanksgiving dinner (after potatoes of course), it would be turnip. And it is so good to find someone who agrees with me! I hope you have the courage to take a Dutch oven full of mashed turnip this year. And I hope those who say they will never try them will open their minds and mouths long enough to take a taste of our favorite delicacy. To think of zucchini as a substitute breaks my heart. That gross little squash is best served in bread. 😉
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Smiling. Laughing now. A Dutch oven full of mashed turnips – ohhhh boy, you’ve got my brain a’stirring now.
I bake zucchini bread in the summer (from my daughter’s garden). Highly respectable. But a zucchini does NOT belong on the Thanksgiving table! 🙂
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