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Turnips? Tomatillos?
« on: September 05, 2008, 02:54:42 AM »
Okay so we've had some strange and hot weather in VA...

for some reason things in the garden I wanted to do well didn't do so well... corn, red tomatoes, squash of various kinds....

but I just dug up the turnips and my God do we have turnips.... so anyone know what I can do with them aside from mashing or shoving them in Cornish Pasties?

Also,  I have managed to grow a forest of tomatillos.  I am made a nice lot of preserves (yes it sounds odd, but it is so good... I just  used a recipe for green tomato preserves and OMG it's good) but now need a good salsa recipe that can be canned.  Or just any other ideas for what to do with them.  Any one have an enchilada sauce with them?  I have also grown my own Poblanos and a few other chilies. (Sorry I can't ship them to the UK! ;D)
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Re: Turnips? Tomatillos?
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2008, 04:00:11 AM »
I had a bumper crop of turnips in June-July, and I pickled them all.  Nuka pickles.. is there an Asian grocery store near you?  Basically, you put a bunch of rice bran in a container with some beer, garlic, ginger, chilis.. then push in vegetables.  Mush them around a bit every day.  It only takes a few days to make pickles.  Turnips and carrots are great, softer vegetables not so great.  I'll look around for a link with a proper recipe.

Here's one, although I didn't do it this way:

http://japanesefood.about.com/od/pickle/r/nukazuke.htm

I'm going to read this now!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukazuke

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Re: Turnips? Tomatillos?
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2008, 09:00:44 AM »
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Re: Turnips? Tomatillos?
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2008, 03:33:38 PM »
Great ideas! 

I love Japanese and that enchilada recipe kills two birds with one stone as I have frozen butternut to use! 

Right now we are making more preserves and I am going to try a tomatillo and apple chutney tonight.
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Re: Turnips? Tomatillos?
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2008, 10:24:11 AM »
Roasted turnips are amazing. :)
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