Comments on: Pickled turnips; digestive aid and tasty treat

By: her able hands | Homemade oat and honey granola

her able hands | Homemade oat and honey granola — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:25:25 +0000

[…] just for me. Yes. I get like that sometimes. Usually with things nobody else likes anyway, like my pickled turnips. But sometimes it’s more serious, like when I have a bar of Dagoba chocolate with chili […]

By: her able hands | Martini with pickled turnip

her able hands | Martini with pickled turnip — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:41:20 +0000

[…] I found a new use for the scrumptious pickled turnips: […]

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:18:11 +0000

Hey Heather, congratulations and thanks for sharing. I like the idea of adding radish which gives me the idea to use a sliver of fresh horseradish, too. I’ll try to not be jealous of your oranges and lemons as I sit here and watch the snow fall to the ground. To kill some time, I’m off to google *watermelon turnips* because I’ve never heard of such a variety!

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:06:40 +0000

I just made up two quart sized jars of these with some watermelon turnips from our organic veggie box. I wasn’t sure how to use them until I came across this recipe. I added radishes and more beets, so we’ll see how it turns out. I’m excited. Now I just have to figure out how to use up two tree-fuls of oranges and another of lemons.

By: her able hands | Pickled turnips, redux

her able hands | Pickled turnips, redux — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:52:39 +0000

[…] Don’t buy them! Make them! […]

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:35:06 +0000

Hey, Kelly! I’m so sorry I didn’t answer your comments before. It slipped my addled mind. I do a little bit of freezing, but don’t have a stand-alone freezer yet, so not nearly as much as I will next season after I buy one. I’m a baaaaaad person because I use freezer bags. they take up a whole lot less space. But once I do get that freezer, I’ll be testing out container options. I’ll share what I find.

Seems like beets are a love-em or hate-em thing for most people. They’re lovely roasted in thin slices with a bit of e.v. olive oil and fresh lemon juice, then tossed with fresh dill. Yum!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:30:47 +0000

Darcy, I would think celery seed would be a fine substitute. Plenty of the recipes I looked at didn’t have celery at all. A few were even as simple as turnips, a slice of cooked beet, salt, water and vinegar.

I think next time I make them, I’ll use a little less garlic, less beet and maybe no celery leaves. They seemed to add a bitterness, though that could have been my turnips, which were a couple of weeks old.

By: Darcy

Darcy — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:57:22 +0000

Say, what if you don’t have any celery leaves? Do you think some celery seed thrown in would be an acceptable substitute? Or is that an ingredient one could comfortably leave out? I found out that the little eggplants I love are called Makdous. Thanks for inspiring me to find out.