Winter Turnips

Meadowlark

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Location
East Texas
Hardiness zone
9a
With temps falling into the mid-twenties (F) here every evening some might say gardening is finished for the season ...the Turnips ignore that kind of talk and produce wonderful food all winter long here. Today's harvest will be repeated many, many times before spring.

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With temps falling into the mid-twenties (F) here every evening some might say gardening is finished for the season ...the Turnips ignore that kind of talk and produce wonderful food all winter long here. Today's harvest will be repeated many, many times before spring.

How do you eat these? I've tried turnips a few times and never really liked them. I do use a turnip when making stock for homemade chicken noodle soup, because the recipe calls for it, but we don't eat those veggies when we're done.
 
My preferred way is to peel, slice and salt...and enjoy raw. Highly nutritious especially if grown in nutrient dense soil. Many other ways such as potato substitute.
 
My preferred way is to peel, slice and salt...and enjoy raw. Highly nutritious especially if grown in nutrient dense soil. Many other ways such as potato substitute.

I may have to grow a plant, or two, and give them a shot fresh out of the garden. I've definitely never tried them raw. I think every time I've tried them they've been boiled and, probably mostly why they weren't very good, the ones I've tried have been store-bought. I'm no food snob, but everything seems to be better from the garden than from the store.
 
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