Turnips

[peterescue]

I love offal, In fact when I was cooking for a living I worked for a guy who let me put about half a dozen offal items on the menu. It catereed for the top end of town and they ate it faster than we could cook it.
Tripe, brains, kidneys, liver, tongue, sweatbread, heart, tendon, feet, cheek, forcmeats made from the stomache, lungs etc and all those sausages. I have tried balckpuddings from all over Europe. I didnt like the ones I had in Scotland as they have mostly oatmeal and no fat so they are very dry and mealy.

As for brussl sprouts they taste like dondenced acumulations from the bottom of an otto bin.

Coke only goes with whiskey that is so bad it cant be drunk by itself.

 

[moosenoose]

Tripe, brains, kidneys, liver, tongue, sweatbread, heart, tendon, feet, cheek, forcmeats made from the stomache, lungs etc and all those sausages.

(in my best possible irish accent) forcmeat dead, I never! :lol: :lol:

 

[Bryony]

Tastes mighty fine with Jack Daniels though.......

YAY!!!
JD and coke are the best!

but i am always true to stella....

 

[soulweaver]

turnips? you must be from shelbyville, i'll stick to springfield with the nice lemon juice

 

[Bryony]

go the lemon tree!

 

[Magpie]

Turnips are easy to grow and they grow very fast. They make a great moisture source for woodies and meal worms, much cheaper than buying carrots ($2.50 per kilo????)

 

[Bryony]

good value.....but they are still a vegee and i still don't like them.......
no one here likes cho co? do they?

brussle sprouts.....well......my loving mother tricked me sayiong they were mini letuuce's and me being an adorable kid ate them saying they are mini ones......

 

[Sdaji]

I don't particularly like eating turnips by the way, I just started the thread because I thought they look cute and funny

My mum tried to trick me into eating brussells sprouts many years ago, which was weird because I wasn't stupid enough to fall for it and wouldn't eat them, despite the fact that when she served them up as brussells sprouts previously I always had.

 

[Sdaji]

Bry, what's cho co?

 

[Pinkie]

Is it spelled Choko? They are some weird vegie a bit like a cucumber or something

 

[Sdaji]

Oh, and they're lumpy?

 

[Bryony]

cho co = its a weird vegee......it grows on vines, its like the pare of the vege world....yuky and heres a WEBSITE about it

its spelled cho cho but pronounced cho-ko
http://www.hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk/jamaica/cho_cho.htm

and here are some other names:-
chayote = cho-cho = chocho = christophene = christophine = chuchu = mango squash = mirliton (in the South) = pear squash = vegetable pear = sousous = choko = custard marrow = pepinella = pepinello = xuxu = xoxo Pronunciation: chi-YOH-tay or chi-YOH-tee Notes: This mild-flavored squash looks like a wrinkled, pale green pear. It needs to be cooked before serving, and for a longer time than other summer squash. You should peel a chayote before cooking it, but don't take the seed out--it's edible and tasty. Cooked chayotes make good low-fat substitutes for avocados. Substitutes: zucchini (stonger flavor, cooks more quickly) OR kohlrabi OR other summer squash OR carrots OR bell peppers (for stuffing)

 

[Pinkie]

squashes suck! they taste of nothing... cho co choko choco thingy sounds GEW

 

[Bryony]

he he he i got a bit excited........
but now you all know!

 

[Sdaji]

You know a lot about cho cho for someone who doesn't like them

Wouldn't the pear be the pear (pare?) of the vegetable world?

 

[peterescue]

If you want to eat chokos they need to be picked up to about 60 mm long. Not any bigger.
After that they are tastless. When they are small they dont need to be peeled or cut up. Steamed(or boiled) and tossed in butter or olive oil with some garlic and black pepper.
Its like zuchinis(courgettes for you francophiles). The smaller the better. Squash is the same. the ones they sell in the shops are way to big.
Turnips and swedes are 2 similar but different veggies from the same family.

 

[Sdaji]

Saturday is Tchurnip day

 

[trader]

Turnips are easy to grow and they grow very fast. They make a great moisture source for woodies and meal worms, much cheaper than buying carrots ($2.50 per kilo????)

Hi Magpie, can I ask where carrots are selling at $2.50 a kilo??? Geez, that is pretty expensive or 'dear' as they say in Oz Even at Safeway where the cost of produce is quite high a 1 kilo bag of carrots sells from .68 cents to 1.68... I don't buy them when they sell for over a $1.00 a kilo...

Speaking of Safeway, I checked out the 'turnips' this arvo and as Peter says they are very similar, only smaller and whiter than the 'Canadian' turnip (swede) but used in soups and stews etc etc

Cheers, Judy

 

[Sdaji]

I thought the same thing Judy! Although I still buy them when they're $1.68. No expense spared for my 'roaches!!!

Turnips are the white ones with purple tops and swedes are the yellow ones with purple tops, or so I've always thought. Someone said we had it wrong in Australia, which is making me worried that my turnip obsession might have been misdirected all these years!!

 

[BROWNS]

Well i watched a pretty disturbing show today where in Thailand they ate cobras..they cut them open alive and stirred them up with a mongoose in a cage they couldn't bite to get the blood pumping..they drained the blood and added the contents of the gall bladder and drank that ,then ate the cobra...

The whole show was on what people from other cultures eat and was pretty damn distressing to say the least...