Turnip, anyone? 😋

Claretjan

Here in Scotland what I know as Swede is called turnip. It's one of the few vegetables I can't stand. The small white turnip is ok chopped up with carrot, with butter added!

It's the same in the West Counttry.
I asked for a swede in the market and was told "it's not a swede, it's a turnip, maid".

I thought it was a neep in Scotland!

Swedes are lovely, you can't have a Lancashire hotpot without swede. And it's good mashed with onion and carrot.

I don't like turnips, they're cattle food.

Roasted baby turnips, seasoned and with herbs & garlic are really tasty. Can be cooked in an air fryer.

I thought swedes were mostly grown for cattle feed.
I wonder if Ms Coffey sits down to a meal of turnips often or if it just advice for the serfs?
The wealthy in this country have never eaten seasonally, and certainly didn’t survive on turnips. If you go round big country houses just take a look of what remains of their “pineapple hot houses” and glasshouses, served by huge heatings systems.

Add a bit of nutmeg as well.

Claretjan

Here in Scotland what I know as Swede is called turnip. It's one of the few vegetables I can't stand. The small white turnip is ok chopped up with carrot, with butter added!

Swedes or{snaggers} are Turnips in Cumbria as well. You eat turnip the cattle eat swede in that part of the world.
It's alright in a casserole or mashed with potatoes with plenty of butter and seasoning.

In Cornwall the vegetable other places call swede are called turnips. They are traditional in pasties and are also carved at Kalan Gwav (Allantide, the Cornish equivalent of Halloween) into Jack 'o Lanterns.
I love them and am going to try Daddima's way of cooking them!

FannyCornforth

There are now reports of a turnip shortage 🙄
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/supermarkets-turnips-food-shortages-rations-b2288919.html?amp

Not in our allotment there isn’t. I think it’s all that’s in there now the leeks have gone. This thread might have inspired me to try making soup with them. Especially seeing as I discovered three forgotten tins of coconut milk at the back of a kitchen cupboard this week (there must have been a sale on).

Bloody Tories!
Before you know it, that b*** Johnson will be sneaking around the nation’s allotments 🤬

Gingster, as Fanny says There’s nothing worse than your local MP standing about unwarranted in your garden... unless she is moving about, pinching the turnips!

I'm off to do the supermarket shop this afternoon. Reckon I'm gonna get any tomatoes? Don't think I could rely on British fruit and veg any longer. Give me something that has been warmed in the Mediterranean sun any day. Turnips? Not sure I've ever had one. Swede is nice but it's a pain to chop and peel.

Gingster

Therese Coffey is our MP. For coastal Suffolk. We’ve met her a few times (she’s even stood in our garden) . Useless doesn’t even describe her. ,!

Very early yesterday morning on the radio someone who was apparently once known as 'the turnip king' in Suffolk - he said he gave up six months ago as it was uneconomical due to costs and lack of labour.

I wonder what Coffey has to say about that.

NotSpaghetti

*Fanny * you are right. All over the news now!

It could only happen in this country!
Panic buying is becoming a kind of national sport!
Any mention of anything at all (even by a substandard, garden bothering MP) and it will go flying off the shelves.
Turnips. I ask you

Gingster

Therese Coffey is our MP. For coastal Suffolk. We’ve met her a few times (she’s even stood in our garden) . Useless doesn’t even describe her. ,!

Gingster There’s nothing worse than your local MP standing about unwarranted in your garden.
I’ve had to throw a bucket of cold water over Margaret Beckett on more than one occasion

Therese Coffey is our MP. For coastal Suffolk. We’ve met her a few times (she’s even stood in our garden) . Useless doesn’t even describe her. ,!

Fanny you are right. All over the news now!

AGAA4

Turnips are small and easier to cut. Swedes are large and very hard to cut.
My Dad used to grow lots of veg in the garden post war. Cabbage, cauliflower, carrots, sprouts, peas and beans. Oh and turnips I think.

Exactly AGAA4.

Blossoming

Daddima

Alioop

I hate cutting up turnip, it's like getting through a brick and my hands ache. I just buy the bags now that are already chopped up for you. Turnip takes me back to Halloween, when I was a child, when we carved them, not pumpkins like kids do now. It took days to dig it out with screwdrivers, hammers, anything we sneakily borrowed from my dad's shed.

Just put the whole neep into the microwave for about 30 minutes, turn it over and cook for another 20. Cut off the top, scoop out the flesh, and mix it with butter and black pepper.
Viola- bashed neep!

Thanks for this tip Daddima, marvellous for those of us with little manual dexterity.

Thanks Daddima, I think you have saved my fingers! That sounds delicious too.

There are now reports of a turnip shortage 🙄
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/supermarkets-turnips-food-shortages-rations-b2288919.html?amp

DH had an email from a seed supplier in the UK last night with a special offer on turnip seeds saying "now is the time to buy". 😂😂😂
Obviously we can't because of Brexit, but love their use of a marketing opportunity!

Daddima, that's brilliant!
I use the microwave to cook potatoes and beetroot but hadn't given swede a thought. I guess it would work for celariac too.

Me too Oreo love it. Also bubble & squeak with potato, swede and carrot. Rumbling tum now .

Parsley3

Neeps (swedes) and carrots mashed together and seasoned with salt and pepper is a favourite of mine.

SLURP!
I could just eat a plateful right this minute😍

I love swede, loathe turnips.

Daddima

Alioop

I hate cutting up turnip, it's like getting through a brick and my hands ache. I just buy the bags now that are already chopped up for you. Turnip takes me back to Halloween, when I was a child, when we carved them, not pumpkins like kids do now. It took days to dig it out with screwdrivers, hammers, anything we sneakily borrowed from my dad's shed.

Just put the whole neep into the microwave for about 30 minutes, turn it over and cook for another 20. Cut off the top, scoop out the flesh, and mix it with butter and black pepper.
Viola- bashed neep!

Thanks for this tip Daddima, marvellous for those of us with little manual dexterity.

We grow cima di rapa which are turnip leaves and utterly delicious. We also like the tiny turnips / navets that we get here in France.