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Monday Miscellany

It’s 10:00 am as I write this, and I really should be doing some other things at the moment.

(Like, laundry, school with my girls, making a menu plan, making a grocery list….)

So, how about a quick 30-minutes-of-blogging dose of randomness?

Here’s my latest Hungry Harvest box.   It has something new to me in it….a rutabaga!

I think I’m going to opt for roasting it, since roasting improves pretty much any vegetable by 97%.

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Joshua and Lisey didn’t carve their pumpkins (yet! Joshua says he’s still going to.), but Sonia and Zoe did, before Halloween.

Zoe’s (on the left) is Jack Skellington’s dog, Zero.   And Sonia’s is Gollum, from Lord of the Rings.

(She and Zoe are both rather obsessed with LOTR.)

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Joshua outgrew some of his jeans, and since none of his cousins are his same pant size, I wasn’t sure what exactly to do with them.

I thought about Goodwill, but then again, the odds of someone needing this very tall, very slim pant size seemed a little…slim.

(Ahahahahaha!)

I checked eBay, and noticed that these jeans do seem to sell.   I listed them, (using the eBay app to upload photos from my phone), and they sold the next day.

Now they’re out of my house, I have a little extra cash, and I know they’re going to a person who needs the exact size Joshua had.

SWEET.

We’ve barely had to run our heat so far this fall, although we did keep our A/C on a lot later than usual.   A/C is less expensive than heat, so it’s all good in my book!

No, we didn’t get a dog. This is a friend’s dog!

It’s looking like some cooler weather is actually headed our way now, but hey, at least we had a very outdoors-friendly October.

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Ok, my 30 minutes is almost up, so I’ll wrap this up.

I know it’s still fall (I mean, see my photos above!), but tomorrow I have a fun holiday offer for you guys from Grove.

Including this fabulous red apron.

Anyway, more on that tomorrow.

Laundry, school, and menu planning are waiting for me!

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Maureen

Tuesday 7th of November 2017

Love rutabagas!!! My mother cuts it up and boils it with a potato or 2 and then mashes it. I love it and she usually makes it doe me and her.

Funny story in my husband's family is that they all hated "turnip potatoes". Turns out their mother was adding the turnips to the mashed potatoes to stretch the potatoes and ruining the flavor of mashed potatoes. None of my in-laws eat rutabaga/turnip and I love them!

Angela L-G

Monday 6th of November 2017

This is my favourite way to eat rutabagas: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/mashed-yellow-turnips-with-crispy-shallots-recipe-1944741

Man, I do like your blog. :)

Deidre

Monday 6th of November 2017

I think we call Rutabaga swedes, we find them a little strong on their own but I like a small amount (e.g. 1 cm slice) finely chopped/grated and added to a shepherd's pie meat base. My sister has mashed them but mixed some in with potato as she found it on its own a bit strong. But I haven't tried them roasted I like the multi-veg cube roasted idea, sounds yum.

CC

Monday 6th of November 2017

There's a fabulous recipe for rutabaga in a cookbook of the Russian scholar Darra Goldstein. It was published under two different titles: The Winter Vegetarian and The Vegetarian Hearth, and includes lots of cold-climate vegetarian recipes, as opposed to the more common Mediterranean and middle-Eastern dishes that don't do us much good in January in New England.

Anyway, the Oven-Roasted Rutabagas and Potatoes are so good that my family actually invited them to Thanksgiving, where newcomers are very seldom welcome!

Jeanne

Monday 6th of November 2017

Rutabaga can also be known as wax turnips. My family's favorite way to eat them is cooked, and mashed. Then it is layered in to a casserole dish covered with American cheese and then topped with mashed potatoes. The dish is then placed in an oven and the cheese melts and the mashed potatoes brown. Yum.

Lindsey

Monday 6th of November 2017

We did a similar thing but with Velvetta (sp?). You can hide anything with that stuff.

Linda

Monday 6th of November 2017

Someone in the comments asked how rutabaga tastes-well not good at all!!! lol!!! Not sure if even roasting this IMO awful vegetable could even make it palatable. You will have to let us know in all honesty what you think.

Kristen

Monday 6th of November 2017

Heh, well, I'll have to keep you posted once I try it!

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