Candied green beans, fried turnips and smothered pork loin. 
My friend Tammy at Flat Creek Farm was telling me how to fry turnips. Today on PBS I saw the Lidia's Italy show. She had a guest cook from Arkansas cooking with her. They made skillet fried turnips.
Here's the recipe the best I could copy.
Saute about 4 slices of diced bacon until crisp.
Add 1 clove of garlic and 1/2 of an onion, chopped.
Add 5 to 6 medium diced turnips and 1 diced potato.
Continue to fry for 5 to 10 minutes.
In a small bowl mix 2 teaspoons sugar, 2 Tablespoons water and 2 Tablespoons cider vinegar.
Add to skillet to de-glaze.
Cover and simmer for about 10 minutes.
These were really good!
As for the candied green beans, here is what I did. The recipe is my own version.
Dice 3 slices of bacon and fry until crisp.
In a casserole dish add 1 can partially drained green beans.
Pour the bacon and some of the fat over the beans.
Add about 1/2 cup brown sugar.
Mix and bake 1 hour at 350.
Okay so we had a little pork fat for dinner. But gosh was it good!
After dinner, it was time to make the turnip kraut. We filled a 6 gallon and a 3 gallon crock. It will take about 2 weeks to sour before it can be canned.
Okay I know this blog originally started as a quilting blog, and believe me it will return to that. However, sometime food gets in the way.
I did some sewing today. I'm still working on two small quilts. My printer is out of ink, and I need that to make some paper piece patterns. Hopefully the snail mail tomorrow will deliver the cartridges I ordered.
The weather was beautiful. I washed some windows in between sewing.
Time to rest now.
6 comments:
Gee, and I thought *I* invented fried turnips.. LOL! The PBS recipe sounds very good (bacon makes all things better). I originally came up with my version as a diet recipe when I was hungry for fried potatoes while on weight watchers or.. something. And we both liked it, so we have it every turnip season now :)
Your whole meal sounds terrific, and what a busy day you had!! -Tammy
That looks DIVINE! I'm definitely saving this recipe :)
I really wasn't hungry or so I thought when I came home after class and had a bowl of cereal. After seeing what you ate I may come and raid the leftovers out of your refrigerator. I just don't know if I'm going to be satisfied until breakfast now. It looked that good.
I already put turnips on my grocery list. Thanks for the recipes.
fried turnips sound delicious! i'll have to try them! the whole meal looks tasty!
Fried turnips-well I never. I'm going to have to try this recipe out! Thank you for making sure I seen it. Can't wait to tell Pap and Granny-I've already told everybody I know about your turnip kraut : )
Your canned fish looks so good-wish we lived close enough to share!
Please don't be surprised if I ever travel cross country and show up unannounced at dinner time.
You're killin' me! Yummmmmm!
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