This mash makes a delicious and healthy addition to a dinner plate, particularly a roast-dinner type meal. Despite the lack of carbohydrate in it, it’s very hearty owing to the addition of egg white, parmesan cheese and sour cream.
Turnips
Glazed Parsnips and Turnips
These roasted, caramelized root vegetables taste fantastic.
Neeps
Neeps is a Scottish term for cooked swede, diced or mashed. It is usually cooked by boiling, but can be steamed or microwaved. Sources Smillie, Susan. Are ‘neeps’ swedes or turnips? Manchester: The Guardian. 25 January 2010.
Prairie Turnip
Prairie Turnip comes from a perennial plant actually related to beans. Above ground, the plant will be anywhere from ½ foot (15 cm) to 1 ½ feet (45 cm) tall, with light-green leaves with hairs on them. The plant produces blue, or light blue, or white flowers in spiky clusters, that in the fall produce…
Root Veg & Mushroom Savoury Pudding
A good hearty, economical winter veg dish. Delicious served with some kind of gravy, especially mushroom gravy.
Teltow Turnips
Teltows are turnips that were originally developed in the town of Teltow in the Berlin-Brandenburg area of Germany. They are no longer actually grown in Teltow but in the neighbouring town of Kleinstmengen. Many other varieties of turnip are now being sold as teltow, even though they aren’t really.Unlike most other turnips, Teltows are not…
Turnip Greens
Turnip Greens are the above ground leaves of Turnip. The leaves are smaller and more tender than Collard. If you are growing your own, wait till they are about 3 inches tall (7.5 cm.) When harvesting, the bottom leaves tend to be bitter; leave those behind. Among the best varieties of Turnips for greens are…
Turnips
Turnips are actually a member of the cabbage (or “brassica”) family. In fact, there are a few varieties of turnip, which have no root to speak of, are grown only for their leafy tops. But for the most part, they are root vegetables. Most of a turnip is white or yellowish from having ground in…