It is one of my favourite vegetables. We have it often. Almost always as a side with roast chicken or turkey and it goes wonderful with pork and with lamb. Love it cooked with lamb shanks. And it is one of the vegetables I add to beef stew.

Yummy! I love rutabagas.

DH loves it.! So wrong to not try things when the spring here is so barren and late. Great weather now and the gardens are now being planted. The village is out and digging. 55 is t-shirt weather, lol.

sols, hilarious.

ann-t, so right to add it to stew. I like the color...like a ripe cantaloupe. Not as sweet as sweet potato. Better than a plain potato. Maybe i have a good Canadian crop? Never get this in the US so good.

It's a tradition to have turnip puff at Thanksgiving. It's a rutabaga (the orange flesh) but we call it a turnip.

Like Ann T, it's one of my favorite vegetables. I put it in stew and soup, roast it, I've grated it and made something like hash with it. It's a required ingredient in Michigan UP Pasties. My favorite is just boiled and mashed with butter, salt and pepper.

Sol, I'd like to see that sweet potato, LOL.

Annie

It's delicious mashed in with mashed potatoes. Makes a lighter version of mashed potatoes.

I love it roasted. Do not know why it has such a bad reputation. Much sweeter than turnips, although the "nippy" part of turnips is what I like about them . . . Have yet to find a root vegetable that I don't like. Well . . . make that a vegetable period. I don't like too many onions, but even those I like when mixed in with other flavors. SD, your photo is very cool!

I like it in tempura, and in fact, turnip is my favorite vegetable for tempura because of its intense flavor. Rutabaga holds up to deep frying very well but is sweeter than turnip. A good thing about tempura is that it cooks very quickly.

"Sol, I'd like to see that sweet potato."

Damn your impudence, Annie!


But oh, I feel environed by your playful wickedness. I'll email it to you,rather than hog Sleevendog's thread.


Ms. Dee Meanor

I love tempura, but never make it due to it just not being worth the prep time and clean up considering it is just me most of the time.

I will have to add that to my list. I have never even heard of a rutabaga. Have never seen one in a store. But I've never looked for the.

I'd like to see sol's sweet potato too.
The punk vegie is a turnip, not a rutabaga (which is called a "swede" here). Rutabagas are in pasties here along with carrot, potato and onion.

I agree, Colleen, that punk looks like a turnip to me too. I'd still like to see Sol's sweet potato. Hey, impudent is only what I get called to my face, LOL.

And so, today I planted turnips, rutabaga and parsnips. Along with a bunch of other stuff, of course...

Annie

I've always like rutabagas, also known as swedes. And here in WV, as hanovers.

Maybe the sweet potato is not for prime-time, like some of my carrots. : )

Last nights rutabaga/white bean salad, served with moose sausage-n-onions.

So many varieties...i must grow some. http://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/rutabagas/

Love rutabaga...I mash them with butter and nutmeg. Yum....I even eat it for breakfast like a hot cereal.