Turnips Reviews

************* -Background- ************* Traditionally Turnips are thought of as a root crop, and are commonly grown and consumed as such. To be honest, im not a huge fan, but if home grown, picked when small, and eaten freshly, they are fairly delicious. My main experience of them though, has been from the ...  Read the complete review

Why not have a traditional turnip lantern at Halloween this year instead of the American pumpkin Jack O Lantern. In Scotland, Ireland and the North of England people have been making their Halloween lanterns out of turnips (Swedes as they are known in the South) for centuries. Halloween is all about the dead, and the origin ...  Read the complete review

It is now Autumn and I am attracted by the return of the season's vegetables. Today for our dinner we had steak with mash and turnips. Turnips are a favourite vegetable of mine, they always remind of Autumn and especially Halloween, when we were children, before we had heard of Pumpkins we used to carve our scary Halloween lanterns from turnips. ...  Read the complete review

Turnip I bought a turnip last week and cooked and ate it yesterday . A turnip Brassica Rapa, yes it’s from the cabbage family is a staple fairly cheap root vegetable. This vegetable is good to eat in winter months great to add to a soup or to serve mashed it makes a good mash combined with potatoes. Turnips are also used for ...  Read the complete review

Gather round dooyoo children, I'm going to tell you a little story...about a turnip....called Ned. Now Ned lived in a big field in Dyfed with lots of his turnip siblings, they were happy in the sun, the occasional shower and the regular lovely heap of manure. The only bad events were plagues of flea beetles, sadly some succumbed to club ...  Read the complete review