So those gorgeous black beets that came in the Lufa Farms Fresh Basket this week…are not beets. To my dismay, they’re turnips, which I only discovered after an hour and 20 minutes of roasting…
I don’t think I should feel incredibly stupid because most people with a vegetable box from a local farm have at one time or another played the game, “name that vegetable”…and lost.
See, when you get these mysterious black things that sort of resemble beets and you get all excited about roasting them in aluminum foil, and cut off the tops and bottoms and find they’re white inside, you think one of two things:
1. Well that’s strange…
or
2. Cool!
I thought the latter.
And an hour and 20 minutes of roasting later I had shriveled beet-like things that were very much turnips. If it smells like a turnip, and tastes like a turnip, it’s a turnip…
And roasted turnips? Not so delicious…Even my blueberry balsamic salad dressing couldn’t save them. Actually I didn’t even try. That’s what I was planning to do with the beets post-roasting, but blueberry turnips? Nope, doesn’t work. It’s just a sad waste of the last of my blueberry vinegar from last year’s organic market when the peppermaster let me test his line of products.
Turnips – 1
Amie – 0
Until next time, turnips…next time.
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