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Discovering Our Roots

Roots DinnerWe scored a bunch of root vegetables and other winter fodder on a trip to the upper Connecticut River Valley, so naturally we had to cook them. As is the usual case with explorers, we made forward progress, but made a few errors along the way (thankfully none of them were fatal!)

Here's what we had to work with (I love a challenge!):

  • Two kinds of baking pumpkin: Sugar Pumpkin and the new (to us) Long Pie Pumpkin.
  • Three kinds of turnips, including the new-to-us and highly touted Vermont favorite "Gilfeather" and one masked mystery contestant.  
  • 1 Blue Hubbard Squash earnestly seeking employment.
  • an onion, some Dutch Gold shallots, some Northern Spy apples, and some meats that didn't fit any conceivable roots menu.

So here's the conundrum of cooking Strictly in the Interest of Science: the goal is to be informative, not delicious. When working with something as prosaic as these winter vegetables, a compelling menu was a challenge indeed!

Fortunately Lorna came through in the clutch with a package of chicken breasts and some raspberries (more on those later).

I peeled and cut the big knobby Gilfeather Turnip into batons, and steamed them. I cut the mystery long green turnip-radish into dics and steamed it with the Gilfeather when it was about half done.

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