Rootabeggas anyone?

[bpitt]

Anybody here ever try growing rootabeggas? I like'em, but didn't know if they'd grow here, what season, etc.

[dollfus46]

I love rutabagas, but you and I are the only two who do, prolly. Great with lotta buttah.

[Hermione]

Loathe them. Rutabaga, thank you Mike. I was racking my brain trying to remember how that was really spelled, knew it was something weird.

[pEtAl mIsFiT]

I love them as well. I am not sure if they will grow here are not. They are hard as heck to cut.

[Maggie-Doodle]

I am pretty sure my dad and granddad used to grow them in our garden...seems they would harvest them before they got as big as the ones in the store...they didn't seem to be so hard to peel either. I love them but don't cook them..with the arthritis in my hands I just don't have the strength to cut them up...if I am at a restaurant and they have them I usually get a double order though.

[Bluesman]

Rutabagas will grow here... This is the wrong time of the year to plant them for them to thrive however. They are a cool weather crop like broccoli, cabbage, turnips, mustard, collards, etc. but you could probably plant them in Mid Sept. for fall rutabagas though. I have never tried it but I know people that eat the tops like greens. Maybe be good I don't know but they sure look like turnip greens when they grow....

You can get the seeds at A&R by Hercules... side the RR tracks... I'm sure the other feedstores could get the seeds but I know they have them already cause I bought some this last winter and planted em... Dry weather and the bugs got em though :smt105

[bpitt]

Thanks, guys. I just might try planting some.

[Conveyor Belt]

thanks bluesman, I was thinking they were a cold weather crop!

I do enjoy them, though. However, you have to eat them with butter to taste right, or to taste like I remember. I remember Morrison's always had them on the line, and I used to get them as a child. I haven't had any in years (like 15 years or more).... I sure would like some, though.

[dollfus46]

I am pretty sure my dad and granddad used to grow them in our garden...seems they would harvest them before they got as big as the ones in the store...they didn't seem to be so hard to peel either. I love them but don't cook them..with the arthritis in my hands I just don't have the strength to cut them up...if I am at a restaurant and they have them I usually get a double order though.
Me too. Hard to find in the restaurants though. I have no idea how to prepare then. I'll look for them in the store and check out Cook.com. I love turnips too.

[dollfus46]

Loathe them. Rutabaga, thank you Mike. I was racking my brain trying to remember how that was really spelled, knew it was something weird.
Amazing what you HAVE to learn to spell when you hafta start making your own grocery list. Took me 6 years to learn Spaghetti.:smt118 Rutabagas was easy. I talk that way. Heh heh heh.

[dollfus46]

Rutabagas will grow here... This is the wrong time of the year to plant them for them to thrive however. They are a cool weather crop like broccoli, cabbage, turnips, mustard, collards, etc. but you could probably plant them in Mid Sept. for fall rutabagas though. I have never tried it but I know people that eat the tops like greens. Maybe be good I don't know but they sure look like turnip greens when they grow....
:smt105
Hmmm. Dictionary calls them European Turnip Plants. So maybe they are cousins. I'll google rutabagas later and see.

[Bluesman]

I like to cook em with some bacon and then dip em on my plate and smush em up with some crumbled up fresh cornbread and a healthy tablespoon full of blue plate...:smt023

Damn good if I must say so myself...
and for all you mayo haters out there, I just thought i would let you know that Blue Plate is the 5th food group!

Gotta grease it up... helps it go down the guzzle a lot easier;)

[Maggie-Doodle]

Rutabagas will grow here... This is the wrong time of the year to plant them for them to thrive however. They are a cool weather crop like broccoli, cabbage, turnips, mustard, collards, etc. but you could probably plant them in Mid Sept. for fall rutabagas though. I have never tried it but I know people that eat the tops like greens. Maybe be good I don't know but they sure look like turnip greens when they grow....


You can get the seeds at A&R by Hercules... side the RR tracks... I'm sure the other feedstores could get the seeds but I know they have them already cause I bought some this last winter and planted em... Dry weather and the bugs got em though :smt105

Like turnips, the greens are very good cooked..that is the way my granny and my mom cooked them...IF they were homegrown...you never find the tops at the grocery...it is always just the roots.
thanks bluesman, I was thinking they were a cold weather crop!

I do enjoy them, though. However, you have to eat them with butter to taste right, or to taste like I remember. I remember Morrison's always had them on the line, and I used to get them as a child. I haven't had any in years (like 15 years or more).... I sure would like some, though.

CB, if you want some good rootabeggas, call down to Nanny's Country Kitchen on Edwards St. they cook them at least once a week...they are sooo good too! ALL the food there is good.

I like to cook em with some bacon and then dip em on my plate and smush em up with some crumbled up fresh cornbread and a healthy tablespoon full of blue plate...:smt023

Damn good if I must say so myself...
and for all you mayo haters out there, I just thought i would let you know that Blue Plate is the 5th food group!

Gotta grease it up... helps it go down the guzzle a lot easier;)

Oh yes, gotta have bacon grease AND cornbread! Although I LOVE mayo and agree it is the 5th food group, I ain't too sure I would want it on rootabeggas...now field peas with snaps, purple hulls or butterbeans, that is a different story! mmmmm good! :)

[Conveyor Belt]

you guys adding the mayo to stuff... ugh! I just can't do it...

I once watched a mayo eating contest, and I nearly vomitted watching that... *shudder*

[Bluesman]

you guys adding the mayo to stuff... ugh! I just can't do it...

I once watched a mayo eating contest, and I nearly vomitted watching that... *shudder*
Mayo is good.. but I only like Blue Plate... everything else, well, everything else is just egg whites and oil...
As far as addin it to everything, I do add it to a lot of veggies when i eat them like beans, peas, turnips, rutabeggas, mustards, collards, etc. I don't go as far as this fella I know in Beaumont... I have seen him smear Blue Plate on cake before... He smears it on everything!!! Now I think HE has ISSUES... Sad thing is I'm related to him...:smt105 Maybe he got a higher degree of the "wierdness" gene. I honestly think this guy would go through withdrawals if there was ever a Blue Plate recall and he couldn't get his fix.:smt118

[Maggie-Doodle]

Mayo is good.. but I only like Blue Plate... everything else, well, everything else is just egg whites and oil...
As far as addin it to everything, I do add it to a lot of veggies when i eat them like beans, peas, turnips, rutabeggas, mustards, collards, etc. I don't go as far as this fella I know in Beaumont... I have seen him smear Blue Plate on cake before... He smears it on everything!!! Now I think HE has ISSUES... Sad thing is I'm related to him...:smt105 Maybe he got a higher degree of the "wierdness" gene. I honestly think this guy would go through withdrawals if there was ever a Blue Plate recall and he couldn't get his fix.:smt118

Bluesman, are you sure we ain't kin? :) I love BP mayo too! LOTS of it! I swear I can stand and eat a big ole spoon straight from the jar! I like it on peas and beans but not all the other stuff...I do slather it all over sandwiches though...

[Bluesman]

Me too, Maggie-D.

How 'bout sombody giving us your homemade mayo recipe/technique. I watched somone make some a few years ago wif one of dem food processor thingamgigs and it were guuuuuut! And, it didn't look all dat complicated but I've forgotten the little must doos and don'ts.
I'll check on that for ya... Ol Dr. Cole in Richton is as old as dirt, bless his soul and he knows how to make it and just about anything else you can think of... That man has been around since Moby Dick was a minner... I'll see if I can get in touch with him one day soon...

[Ted]

- - - - - - but they sure look like turnip greens when they grow....Hmmmmm - - - that's very likely. I wanna remember that they were originally developed from a cross between turnips and cabbage.

[dasmybaby]

I'll check on that for ya... Ol Dr. Cole in Richton is as old as dirt, bless his soul and he knows how to make it and just about anything else you can think of... That man has been around since Moby Dick was a minner... I'll see if I can get in touch with him one day soon...

he's still alive? i thought he kicked the bucket....

[dasmybaby]

Mayo is good.. but I only like Blue Plate... everything else, well, everything else is just egg whites and oil...
As far as addin it to everything, I do add it to a lot of veggies when i eat them like beans, peas, turnips, rutabeggas, mustards, collards, etc. I don't go as far as this fella I know in Beaumont... I have seen him smear Blue Plate on cake before... He smears it on everything!!! Now I think HE has ISSUES... Sad thing is I'm related to him...:smt105 Maybe he got a higher degree of the "wierdness" gene. I honestly think this guy would go through withdrawals if there was ever a Blue Plate recall and he couldn't get his fix.:smt118

who is this?!?! i bet i know him....

[big john]

I thought it was ROOTERBAYGERS

[dollfus46]

Loathe them. Rutabaga, thank you Mike. I was racking my brain trying to remember how that was really spelled, knew it was something weird.

Funny, but that WHY I remembered how to spell it. Strange words stick with me. It's the I's and E's and A's that blow my spelling outa the water.

[dollfus46]

I like to cook em with some bacon and then dip em on my plate and smush em up with some crumbled up fresh cornbread and a healthy tablespoon full of blue plate...:smt023

Damn good if I must say so myself...
and for all you mayo haters out there, I just thought i would let you know that Blue Plate is the 5th food group!

Gotta grease it up... helps it go down the guzzle a lot easier;)

I was raised on Blue Plate Mayonaise. I saw some in the grocery store up here not long ago for the first time. Up here it's Duke's Mayonaise or you're a bumpkin. It's THE mayo among the in crowd. Of course it's made rat down the road in Mauldin, SC.

[dollfus46]

Bluesman, are you sure we ain't kin? :) I love BP mayo too! LOTS of it! I swear I can stand and eat a big ole spoon straight from the jar! I like it on peas and beans but not all the other stuff...I do slather it all over sandwiches though...

I used to eat Blue Plate mayo sammiches. Just Mayo and bread. Now I won't eat mayo at all. Got food poisoning at a ballgame from it. Just takes one time and you don't even want to smell it.

[dollfus46]

Thanks BM,
I couldn't wait and this one looks dang good. I will give it whirl (whisk) tomorrow.

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/43/Homemade-Mayonnaise/print

Hawk, ya gotta come up wid a better acronym for Bluesman.:smt118

[Maggie-Doodle]

Hawk, ya gotta come up wid a better acronym for Bluesman.:smt118


THANKS Dollfus! I didn't catch that UNTIL YOU had to point it out! :laugh::laugh::laugh:

[Bluesman]

he's still alive? i thought he kicked the bucket....
Nope, he ain't dead.. has to do dialysis few times a week and sometimes his sugar makes it neccesary for someone to be with him all the time... Not only is the ol feller alive, sh*t he is STILL WORKING at the clinic and HOSPITAL!!!:smt103
Sometimes he goes to work in a wheel chair and sometimes I think the nurse is not only there for the PATIENT.... If you know what I mean...

But I will tell you that Ol man is a treasure trove of knowledge... I could sit and listen to him all day.... He was explaining how everything is based on 3's and 5's in nature...(Well almost everything) He says that leaf patterns, stem patterns on plants, etc. are based on the same 3 and 5 prime pattern as DNA... I can't explain but to hear him tell it you will just sit there and say "Damn... Never noticed but since you mentioned it" I think he would be an EXCELLENT guest speaker for a history (hell he lived most of it!) or a science class...

[Bluesman]

who is this?!?! i bet i know him....
Avil Herring

[dasmybaby]

Nope, he ain't dead.. has to do dialysis few times a week and sometimes his sugar makes it neccesary for someone to be with him all the time... Not only is the ol feller alive, sh*t he is STILL WORKING at the clinic and HOSPITAL!!!:smt103
Sometimes he goes to work in a wheel chair and sometimes I think the nurse is not only there for the PATIENT.... If you know what I mean...

But I will tell you that Ol man is a treasure trove of knowledge... I could sit and listen to him all day.... He was explaining how everything is based on 3's and 5's in nature...(Well almost everything) He says that leaf patterns, stem patterns on plants, etc. are based on the same 3 and 5 prime pattern as DNA... I can't explain but to hear him tell it you will just sit there and say "Damn... Never noticed but since you mentioned it" I think he would be an EXCELLENT guest speaker for a history (hell he lived most of it!) or a science class...

he is freakin' smart... and can remember anything! i went to see him a couple years ago, and i only go to the dr. once a year, usually not even him, and he remembered where i'd been to school, AND what my major is!

[Bluesman]

Thanks BM, Ha Ha!!!
I couldn't wait and this one looks dang good. I will give it whirl (whisk) tomorrow.

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/43/Homemade-Mayonnaise/print


Glad to know I'm your favorite "Sh*t" on here!!!:smt118

Hey I was thinking about bringing the Mrs. to your place for our anniversary... Is the steaks as good as Logan's??? I love Logan's Roadhouse!

I hear yours is better... Guess I will have to find out next week.:-D

[dollfus46]

Glad to know I'm your favorite "Sh*t" on here!!!:smt118
:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:


Hey I was thinking about bringing the Mrs. to your place for our anniversary... Is the steaks as good as Logan's??? I love Logan's Roadhouse!

I hear yours is better... Guess I will have to find out next week.:-D

Haven't had the opportunity to eat at Donandella's but Logan's is really good up here. Love their sweet taters too.

[dasmybaby]

Avil Herring
i DO know 'em!!! heh. i can almost throw rocks at his house. but then i live in a glass house, so i shouldn't.