I've had a hankering for a Beef Pot Roast lately, so I made a shopping list, and stopped by the grocery store last night on my way home from the weekly Geezer Club Meeting.
I found everything on my list EXCEPT a Parsnip and a Turnip (they did have 3 turnips, but they were mushy). Talked with the produce manager, and she said that the truck was late, and wouldn't be there until about 10pm. Well, I wasn't going to hang around for 3 hours, so unless I venture forth today, I guess I'll have to settle for Taters, Onions, & Carrots in my pot.
Living in a "small town" (pop. ~12k) in Wyoming, has it's drawbacks (especially in the Winter).
Loyal
Didja check in the cellar??ÿ Should be some turnips down there... ;)?ÿ And you're right, soft turnips are for pig feed.
I never actually had the pleasure of turnips with a roast when I was a kid.?ÿ Years later I learned that my mother had endured as a child one particularly hard winter during the Depression.?ÿ Due to the weather all their garden had made that year was turnips.?ÿ She apparently got sick of turnips and swore to never eat another.?ÿ
She told me if they were lucky they had a little sugar on boiled turnips for breakfast or a little salt and pepper on them for supper.
But I've learned to enjoy them, a pot roast just ain't right without one or two.?ÿ
I had a cellar in my last house (under kitchen in 1890ish farm house) which was GREAT (homemade BEER, various things that we bottled, and of course some taters, turnips, etc. from the garden).
I ALWAYS include a turnip in my mashed potatoes, which I think adds a little "pazaz" along with some broth.
I don't use parsnips much, but their sweetness adds some "complexity" to some dishes.
Loyal
My mother's pot roast recipe included our family's beef, onions, carrots, celery and lots of potatoes.?ÿ No parsnips or turnips.?ÿ We also had a root cellar with a couple 100 lbs. gunny sacks of potatoes and a bunch of canned fruits and vegetables.?ÿ I miss the dry hung beef from my family's ranch; grass fed with a 90 day finish of cracked corn and rolled oats with molasses to give it a little marbling....yum!
Oh, this is about food..... ?????ÿ
@flga
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Not enough taters, carrots & turnips???
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Reminds me of my a story from my father. They grew up in rural Alaska, and relied on their garden patch (canned for most of the year) for produce. Various years produced bumper crops of different vegetables. Pretty sure that is why we never had Turnips or Parsnips. I also remember that the grandparent's cellar still had rows and rows of ancient beets left from one year. We didn't have a lot of beets in my father's house either...
> soft turnips are for pig feed
Here, we get a turnip like vegetable called a Swede.
Mostly used as winter feed for cattle, it's popular in our deep south
Me, I like them raw, eaten like an apple.
> soft turnips are for pig feed
Here, we get a turnip like vegetable called a Swede.
Mostly used as winter feed for cattle, it's popular in our deep south
Me, I like them raw, eaten like an apple.
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