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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30822
    #31
    Originally posted by MickyD View Post
    When I pounced on the first batch I saw, the stall holder was keen to know what on earth I do with them...I duly told him!
    And? And? ... What do you do with them?
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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    • mercia
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8920
      #32
      parsnip & pecan cupcakes
      http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/23953/sugar-free-parsnip-and-pecan-cupcakes.aspx


      can't wait for the turnip thread to start

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      • amateur51
        #33
        Originally posted by mercia View Post
        parsnip & pecan cupcakes
        http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/23953/sugar-free-parsnip-and-pecan-cupcakes.aspx


        can't wait for the turnip thread to start
        The celeriac thread will be shorter and more rarefied, methinks

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        • vinteuil
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 13203
          #34
          parsnips, meh...

          On the other hand - I do love salsify :

          Salsify recipes
          https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/salsify
          One of the lesser known root vegetables, salsify is also known as oyster plant because it tastes slightly of oysters. It has a beige-white skin and looks similar to a long carrot in shape.

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          • french frank
            Administrator/Moderator
            • Feb 2007
            • 30822
            #35
            Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
            parsnips, meh...

            On the other hand - I do love salsify :

            www.bbc.co.uk/food/salsify
            Yeeerrrsss... More about texture than taste? Is there much taste to it, other than salty?
            It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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            • amateur51
              #36
              Originally posted by french frank View Post
              Yeeerrrsss... More about texture than taste? Is there much taste to it, other than salty?

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              • vinteuil
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 13203
                #37
                ... bit of a fan of kohlrabi too :

                Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on cooking with Kohlrabi
                https://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/27/fearnley-whittingstall-cooking-with-kohlrabi
                Kohlrabi isn't a looker, but it's the taste that counts, says Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

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                • vinteuil
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 13203
                  #38
                  Originally posted by french frank View Post
                  Yeeerrrsss... More about texture than taste? Is there much taste to it, other than salty?
                  ... try this :

                  Salsify recipes | Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
                  https://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jan/09/salsify-recipes-hugh-fearnley-whittingstall
                  Bored with the same old winter veg day after day? Well, give salsify a go and you may never look back, says Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

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                  • MickyD
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 4944
                    #39
                    Originally posted by french frank View Post
                    And? And? ... What do you do with them?
                    Oh, just the usual roasting and soup recipes....but you have no idea how thrilled I was to finally see a parsnip in a French market - I'll never forget the look on the stallholder's face ("Ils sont fous, ces anglais!!")

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26628
                      #40
                      Originally posted by MickyD View Post
                      Oh, just the usual roasting and soup recipes....but you have no idea how thrilled I was to finally see a parsnip in a French market - I'll never forget the look on the stallholder's face ("Ils sont fous, ces anglais!!")
                      Funny you said that, I was about to chip in (as it were) that I've never seen a parsnip south of the Channel - and when various French relations have been over e.g. at Xmas, they have been unanimouly bemused by the 'carottes blanches' with their 'goût bizarre' ... Is it such a northern thing?
                      "...the isle is full of noises,
                      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                        Gone fishin'
                        • Sep 2011
                        • 30163
                        #41
                        Originally posted by mercia View Post
                        can't wait for the turnip thread to start
                        Merged with the "What Are You Reading Now?" Thread, perhaps?


                        That would be a turnip for the books.
                        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                          Gone fishin'
                          • Sep 2011
                          • 30163
                          #42
                          Oooh, look: Tumbleweed!
                          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26628
                            #43
                            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                            Oooh, look: Tumbleweed!
                            Be thankful it's not a hail of machine-gun fire, ferns....
                            "...the isle is full of noises,
                            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                              Gone fishin'
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 30163
                              #44
                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              Be thankful it's not a hail of machine-gun fire, ferns....
                              I am, oh I am!
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                              • teamsaint
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 25302
                                #45
                                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                                Merged with the "What Are You Reading Now?" Thread, perhaps?


                                That would be a turnip for the books.
                                I would expect that to turn up somewhere more low brow..Sweders Digest, perhaps.
                                I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                                I am not a number, I am a free man.

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