recipes for rutabagas, kohlrabi and turnips

[cap]

I belong to a CSA and get these weird vegetables. I havent figured out what a good recipes are for any of these. Any suggestions?

[MarsThe Cat]

1. what's a CSA?

and can you find a better one to belong to?

[XemaSab]

3. Communist Shefs of America

n/t

[XemaSab]

6. Community supported agriculture

Supporting local growers who grow wierd s***, like rutabegas.

Usually you pay a flat fee and get a box of veggies once a week or so, but you can't pick what you get.

[NV Whino]

2. Turnips

Quarter, boil for 20 minutes, drizzle olive oil (make sure it's good stuff) and add salt and pepper.

Add turnips to stews and soups.

Cook turnips (see above) mash up with potatoes and and garlic.

Don't know about the other things, but google recipes and then put in the vegie when you find a good site.

[pitohui]

4. another one if they're GOOD small turnips

slice them very thin & spackle 'em w. a quality mustard

[BikeWriter]

5. Fry bacon, reserve the bacon. Add scalloped turnips...

and diced onions. When browned, cover and smother until tender. Water or broth may be added. Add crumbled bacon. Remove from heat and cover with sour cream.

[Reciprocity]

7. First the obligatory warning these vegetable can and do cause gas.

Now I'm a Texan and have eaten rutabagas and turnips all my life with kohlrabi the last 15 years or so.
Turnips we chip up and use in greens, like collard and mustard greens.
Rutabagas are my favorite.
I just boil them up with bacon yummy. That said my favorite for them is in a root stuffing for Cornish game hen. Season the hen anyway you like. Chip up onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes, rutabagas, and carrots. Season with butter and Mrs. Dash. Stuff birds with mixture and wrap up in aluminum foil, cook until done about an hour and a half depending on how many hens. I usually cook this in the ole smoky grill when I can but an oven does just as good.
Kohlrabi I love raw but use in Chinese stir-fry along with all the toot I mean root vegetables you have named.

[Whoa_Nelly]

8. Halloween Turnips and Rutabagas!

http://www.pumpkinnook.com/facts/jack.htm

History of the Jack O'Lantern

The Irish brought the tradition of the Jack O'Lantern to America. But, the original Jack O'Lantern was not a pumpkin.The Jack O'Lantern legend goes back hundreds of years in Irish History. As the story goes, Stingy Jack was a miserable, old drunk who liked to play tricks on everyone: family, friends, his mother and even the Devil himself. One day, he tricked the Devil into climbing up an apple tree. Once the Devil climbed up the apple tree, Stingy Jack hurriedly placed crosses around the trunk of the tree. The Devil was then unable to get down the tree. Stingy Jack made the Devil promise him not to take his soul when he died. Once the devil promised not to take his soul, Stingy Jack removed the crosses and let the Devil down.

Many years later, when Jack finally died, he went to the pearly gates of Heaven and was told by Saint Peter that he was too mean and too cruel and had led a miserable and worthless life on earth. He was not allowed to enter heaven. He then went down to Hell and the Devil. The Devil kept his promise and would not allow him to enter Hell. Now Jack was scared and had nowhere to go but to wander about forever in the darkness between heaven and hell. He asked the Devil how he could leave as there was no light. The Devil tossed him an ember from the flames of Hell to help him light his way. Jack placed the ember in a hollowed out Turnip, one of his favorite foods which he always carried around with him whenever he could steal one. For that day onward, Stingy Jack roamed the earth without a resting place, lighting his way as he went with his "Jack O'Lantern".

On all Hallow's eve, the Irish hollowed out Turnips, rutabagas, gourds, potatoes and beets. They placed a light in them to ward off evil spirits and keep Stingy Jack away. These were the original Jack O'Lanterns. In the 1800's a couple of waves of Irish immigrants came to America. The Irish immigrants quickly discovered that Pumpkins were bigger and easier to carve out. So they used pumpkins for Jack O'Lanterns.

[Arugula Latte]

9. Turnips are also great raw.

They kinda taste like a mild radish, with a similar consistency. I slice them and sprinkle w/ a little salt.

Also, you could slice them and bake them with some other hearty veggies such as broccoli and potatoes and carrots in a small buttered casserole dish with a little cheese, salt, & pepper. Yum.

[yellowdogintexas]

10. quarter them, toss with olive oil and garlic and roast them

use them in a New England Boiled Dinner!

You can use either a corned beef, or a smoked shoulder (HEAVILY TRIMMED of all the external fat) or a lean boneless ham.

Cook the meat with onions, garlic, mustard seeds, salt, pepper, in simmering water for 2 or 3 hours.

Add the following vegetables, peeled and cut up, according to the length of time it takes them to cook. Cook covered and don't let it cook down too much, you want the liquid.

Rutabagas
White Turnips
Parsnips
Carrots
Celery
Potatoes
wedges of cabbage.

I usually add the Rutabagas and parsnips first, then white turnips if I am using both kinds of turnips, carrots next, then potatoes, then celery and the cabbage last. By the time you add the cabbage, you just lay the wedges on top of everything else and they steam.

This is a wonderful winter meal. The last time I made it I used the small boneless ham..about 2 or 3 pound size. It was just wonderful.

Add cornbread, or hot rolls, green salad and a nice dessert.