Winter share, 5 of 11

[magid]

• three pounds of potatoes (mostly smallish)
  
• three pounds of beets (mostly mid-sized)
  
• a pound and a half of purple-top turnips
  
• three pounds of sweet potatoes
  
• four pounds of carrots (oddly, a bunch of the larger ones that I was aiming for were flattish on one side, like they'd grown next to an in-ground fence or something; I chose a lot of them, figuring it's easier to cut them with a flat surface already provided)
  
• two medium bunches of kale
  
• two bags (a pound each? maybe more?) of spinach

First thoughts: these are all fine, but I wish there was something I was super excited about (rutabaga, parsnip, celeriac, sunchokes....). Maybe something kale and sweet potato with berbere seasoning and chickpeas. Saute lots of spinach with the garlic I still have lots of. Roasted carrots (with beets?), also carrots into split pea soup. Potatoes and kale again. Shredded root veg kugel with a variety of the roots, maybe.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

What recipes would you recommend for turnip's?

[magid]

I decided to roast them with some of the beets and carrots. I find I'm not super-inspired by purple-top turnips. (Another option would be to boil and mash with potatoes, to have tatties and neeps.)

[minoanmiss]

I may try boiling them. I... didn't love the roasted version.

[magid]

I think key for me is that it wasn't roasted turnips solo; mixed in with other roasted roots definitely mitigated.

And if you do boil them, let the potatoes (and whatever you usually add to mashed potatoes) help mitigate :-)