Parsnips and turnips are actually very little alike in flavor, nutritional profile, and appearance - they don't even belong to the same biological family.

Turnips, parsnips, apples and more: 5 ways to use winter produce before it goes bad Thanks to these helpful tips, monitoring what's in your fridge doesn't have to be a difficult task ...

Even though the two vegetables don't really look much like each other, they're connected at the "nip." That "nip" is the great-great-etc. grandchild of the Latin word for turnips, napus, which ...

Americans are not exactly experts when it comes to our Underrated Root Vegetables: turnips, rutabagas and parsnips. “Turnips should never be pulled, it injures them,” Mark Twain once wrote.

I’m talking about turnips, ru. Root vegetables are synonymous with fall — well, some of them anyway. Carrots, sweet potatoes and beets get the most love and adoration.

Purple-top turnips are more likely to take on that bitter, almost horseradish-like flavor, according to Landau. He recommends salt-roasting them. If you don’t want to burn through enough salt to ...

Parsnips, turnips and beetroot - the roots of all good. Now is the time to embrace root vegetables – hardy, delicious, and packed with vitamins. Fionnuala Fallon. Thu Nov 04 2010 - 00:00.

Preparation . Here are a few tips about preparing turnips, rutabagas and parsnips.. Raw (turnips): Cut off greens, rinse turnips under cool running water to clean, and peel the turnips with a knife.

I love to look for turnips at my farmers market in late autumn. (Find the best farmers market near you.) It seems that turnips are often overlooked in favor of other root vegetables like potatoes or ...

In Season: Parsnips sing with other root veggiesIn Season: Parsnips sing with other root veggies. As the weather grows cooler, the root vegetables of winter are starting to sweeten.

In winter, deep freezing is required, to force the parsnip roots to load up their sugar content. For the hungry locavore waiting for spring, pulling this sweetness from the earth comes at a cost.