{"id":524,"date":"2011-03-17T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=524"},"modified":"2011-03-17T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T19:12:00","slug":"turnips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"Turnips"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Potato turnip mash<\/p><\/div>\n

Unfortunately sometimes experimenting with food doesn’t turn out so good.\u00a0 I had read that cooking a turnip is a lot like a potato.\u00a0 I also read a recipe for scalloped turnips.\u00a0 So I thought I would make my scalloped potato and ham recipe but instead of using potatoes I would use turnips.\u00a0 Never having cooked turnips I was surprised with the results.\u00a0 Turnips cook quicker than potatoes.\u00a0 They also absorb more water.\u00a0 The end result was a little mushy and watery.\u00a0 My family still ate it but we won’t be doing that again.\u00a0 Something I did discover was that cooked turnips have a cauliflowery, cabbagey taste.\u00a0 I had one more turnip that I needed to do something with.\u00a0 A friend of mine gave me a recipe for a potato turnip mash.\u00a0 It wasn’t bad it actually had a lot of flavor.\u00a0 My mistake was serving it with some fried chicken.\u00a0 The chicken over powered everything that was on the plate.\u00a0 It had so much flavor that when you went to take a bite out of anything else they seemed to have no flavor.\u00a0 My first bite was great but after eating the chicken the potato turnip mash just seemed like a watery mashed potato.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I think the next time I end up with a turnip I will try it in a stew or soup like Aubrey suggested.\u00a0 Turnips are\u00a0 an excellent source of vitamin C.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately sometimes experimenting with food doesn’t turn out so good.\u00a0 I had read that cooking a turnip is a lot like a potato.\u00a0 I also read a recipe for scalloped turnips.\u00a0 So I thought I would make my scalloped potato and ham recipe but instead of using potatoes I would use turnips.\u00a0 Never having cooked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[30,25,27],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-bountiful-baskets","tag-health","tag-vegetables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}