This year I decided to try growing rutabagas. This is a vegetable that I only recently began to enjoy. Several years ago I tried a vegetable pie recipe that used rutabagas and it was so delicious that I always make this pie at Thanksgiving time. Since I am a vegetarian, folks always ask me "What do you eat at Thanksgiving?" I always answer "Good seasonal food, well prepared", but that never satisfies as an answer. When I tell them I prepare an elegant vegetable pie with 6 kinds of shredded veggies, and rice, and cheese, in a sour cream lattice crust, I get an equally blank stare! (If you decide you would like the recipe for this, email me)
So today I harvested the rest of the rutabagas because the weatherman is predicting another hard freeze. Plus I see that the deer are beginning to eat my rutabagas! They have already eaten the green tops, and now they are working on the tender flesh. I will put some rutabagas diced up, in the freezer today, some I will send home with my Mom, and some I will give away and some I will keep for Thanksgiving pie! I sold many at market this fall. They are very popular with the Norwegians around here. A favorite dish they enjoy is called "Mashed Swedes", which is mashed potatoes and rutabagas mashed together and seasoned well with salt and pepper and plenty of cream and butter.
Rutabagas are also great in vegetable soup and stews.
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| A wagon load of rutabagas, and curious cats |
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| Check out these giants! A green pepper is added for a size reference! |
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| The deer have started to eat them straight out of the garden |
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| The garden looks pretty sad now after several freezes |
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| My garden buddy Rosemary is wondering what happened to her world |
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| One of several piles of winter squash waiting for a home |
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The only thing left to harvest is about 30 pumpkins.
1 comment:
The pie sounds good!
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