Potato turnip mash

Unfortunately sometimes experimenting with food doesn’t turn out so good.  I had read that cooking a turnip is a lot like a potato.  I also read a recipe for scalloped turnips.  So I thought I would make my scalloped potato and ham recipe but instead of using potatoes I would use turnips.  Never having cooked turnips I was surprised with the results.  Turnips cook quicker than potatoes.  They also absorb more water.  The end result was a little mushy and watery.  My family still ate it but we won’t be doing that again.  Something I did discover was that cooked turnips have a cauliflowery, cabbagey taste.  I had one more turnip that I needed to do something with.  A friend of mine gave me a recipe for a potato turnip mash.  It wasn’t bad it actually had a lot of flavor.  My mistake was serving it with some fried chicken.  The chicken over powered everything that was on the plate.  It had so much flavor that when you went to take a bite out of anything else they seemed to have no flavor.  My first bite was great but after eating the chicken the potato turnip mash just seemed like a watery mashed potato.  The good thing about experimenting is now I know a lot more about turnips than I did and maybe next time I’ll get it right.  I think the next time I end up with a turnip I will try it in a stew or soup like Aubrey suggested.  Turnips are  an excellent source of vitamin C.