Any of you like turnips?

[tamrock]

I enjoy them in beef stew, just like mom used to make. Can't say I'll enjoy any of the greens due to bug damage.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Love them.!

 

[mtdoramike]

I love them too. I can remember sitting on the porch as a child eating them raw with a sprinkle of salt.

 

[robertk]

I’ve never tried them raw. But they’re tasty cooked.

 

[newnan man]

Mom would cook them with ham, carrots, & onions! Excellent!

 

[Sandog]

Turnip greens and ham hocks. Good eatin'.

 

[ncsuwolf]

Greens and the root. Greens obviously boiled with fat meat salt pepper,but the root is different. Growing up we had them cubed and stewed (edible but not my favorite) later in life learned they could be mashed in with potatoes (big fan). Much later (I’ll assume after a few adult beverages one night) we were frying fish. Had cooked potatoes, squash, okra, etc……but still had people to feed. A peeled/sliced turnip, rolled in egg/milk then in flour salt/pepper and deep fried is outstanding.

 

[tamrock]

I love them too. I can remember sitting on the porch as a child eating them raw with a sprinkle of salt.

Really. I guess I can't knock it til I try.

 

[tamrock]

Turnip greens and ham hocks. Good eatin'.

I first had that at a deli in Alachua, Florida around 1991. The place was near by where I was working and I'd had it a few times after that during lunch, because it was pretty good. Not a dish you see around here. Must be a Jonny Reb kinda of grub.

 

[pepperj]

In stews, soups, with carrots and mashed potatoes, with lots of butter.

 

[mtdoramike]

I first had that at a deli in Alachua, Florida around 1991. The place was near by where I was working and I'd had it a few times after that during lunch, because it was pretty good. Not a dish you see around here. Must be a Jonny Reb kinda of grub.

More Reb than Jonny I think. My Grandparents hand a pretty large garden, so it was nothing to walk through the garden and pick a nice ripe tomato, or pull up a nice turnip and chow down. When you grow up during a time when snacks were few and far in-between, you made hay out of what you had.

Funny thing though, I didn't care much for cooked turnips.

 

[Sandog]

I first had that at a deli in Alachua, Florida around 1991. The place was near by where I was working and I'd had it a few times after that during lunch, because it was pretty good. Not a dish you see around here. Must be a Jonny Reb kinda of grub.

And long before, and after, Jhonny Rebs.

 

[cajundetector]

I enjoy them in beef stew, just like mom used to make. Can't say I'll enjoy any of the greens due to bug damage.

👍Love em. I’ll be planting around mid August for sure. I’m hesitant to plant in 90 degree weather.

 

[3cylbill]

deer absolutly LOVE them...

 

[newnan man]

My father grew them in Minnesota, everyone had a garden plot and grew them. He was born in 1911.

 

[mtdoramike]

My father grew them in Minnesota, everyone had a garden plot and grew them. He was born in 1911.

That was when people grew their own food and didn't rely on Government handouts and family and neighbor took care of each other. Then Roosevelt became president and decided it would be easier to help and ultimately control people if they were moved from the rural country areas and into cities.

 

[tamrock]

My father grew them in Minnesota, everyone had a garden plot and grew them. He was born in 1911.

Having a garden was pretty much an essential activity for the folks of that generation. In the rural areas, just about everyone had a garden and those close to the big cities sold to the urban folks as street vendors from a cart. Canning and having a root cellar was pretty common in those times. Now days we have Sam's Club, Costco and 7-11 for those on the go. Me and my wife get three meals a week from Hello-Fresh dropped off right on the front porch. They supply really good meals and incude just enough of all the ingredients needed. That way you don't run to the store for things like full packaged panko, spices, sour cream and so many other ingredients that'll just sit for weeks in the cupboard and fridge that'll eventually get old and tossed out. For dinner last night I made Lemony Spaghetti W/Brussels Sprouts. Pretty darn good it was 😋

 

[rginn]

Well yeah we ate em, but like Tony Joe White said, 'That's about all they had to eat, but they did alright'. (We ate polk salad a lot too.) They're easy to grow and we would go out and harvest them in the fields and the farmer would give us a share. Turnip greens were alright, and boiled turnips were ok, but you eat them every night and they get a little old, haha!

 

[robertk]

'That's about all they had to eat, but they did alright'. (We ate polk salad a lot too.)

Hey... I like poke greens!

 

[tamrock]

Sock a little polk salad to me, Know I need a mess of it.