Comments on: Rutabaga, Mashed A Fearless Friday Experiment

By: Erin

Erin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:35:01 +0000

We love to roast winter vegetables in the oven in a heavy metal pan with the heat up to 425 or 450. Cut up rutabagas, sweet potatoes, leeks mushrooms, fingerling potatoes, parsnips, a carrot , and an onion cut into wedges. Drizzle with good olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper and toss to coat. I live at 6000 feet above sea level, so I roast for almost an hour. You can take a spatula and turn half way through

By: AA

AA — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:30:54 +0000

I am not much of a veggie person, but I *love* mashed ruttabaga! Usually, I add in some bacon bits and cook for a long time (45 mins to an hour), then pour out most of the juice and hand mash. Often I’ll save some juice in case I’ve poured out a little too much.

Interesting to note, if you add more salt after cooking, it tastes sweeter. I always end up adding as little extra when it is on my plate. YUM!

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:29:21 +0000

I have never had rutabaga in my life. Wouldn't have recognized it if I stumbled across it. Am now intrigued. Not sure if I'm intrigued enough to cook it or not though. I mean… it's rutabaga!

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Monday Musings: 01.18.2010 « Dark Side of the Fridge — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:56:30 +0000

[...] I haven’t been participating in Home-Ec 101’s Fearless Fridays lately, I’ve still be following along. Last week, Heather explored rutabagas, a vegetable [...]

By: Milehimama

Milehimama — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:16:29 +0000

Half my kids love rutabaga, the other half, not so much. I like to roast them with turnips, carrots, and sweet potatoes cut in chunks with roasts- a nice change from potatoes. I also make roasted root vegetable chili – a great, frugal winter meal!
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By: mom, again

mom, again — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:10:47 +0000

A good place to look for rutabaga recipes is the BBC Television food website. This sort of veg is far more popular there than here. But, they call them swedes. Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/ and enter 'swede' in the recipe search box. If I knew HTML, I'd put a link to a completed search in, but since I dont and the link is 4 lines long, I won't! (They also like Brussels Sprouts a lot, should you ever need recipes for them!)

By: Laura B.

Laura B. — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:08:14 +0000

I love rutabagas! They're quite tasty with a splash of hot pepper sauce (vinegar and whole peppers, not like Tabasco).

By: ThatBobbieGirl

ThatBobbieGirl — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:55:33 +0000

Fearless Friday: our dishwasher started puking water all over the floor a few days ago. It took me a while but I figured out what was wrong and how to fix it. All. By. Myself. No Help From Boys.

The whole inside really needed cleaning out because I hadn't done it in a few years. Turned out the float switch was sticking and allowing too much water to come in because it wasn't shutting off. Works great now

Didn't post my fearless friday earlier because I was going to do it as a nice long blog post to link to, but yeah, life happened. So, there ya go.

By: HeatherSolos

HeatherSolos — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:30:15 +0000

I find turnips to have more of bite / bitterness to them. Perhaps it was the way I have prepared turnips, the rutabaga didn't seem to have that quality or if it did, it was much less pronounced.

By: Katie (aka Kekibird)

Katie (aka Kekibird) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:46:51 +0000

Sadly, I didn't even know what a Rutabaga was. It's interesting looking though.