How To Use Turnip In A Sentence
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Each item was skewered on a cocktail stick and laid like sun rays around the plate, which also had a flower intricately carved out of turnip for decoration.
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The addition of the peppery radishes is a new twist on the classic idea of using baby turnips.
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Without wishing to be unkind, it was student vegetable gloop (carrot, courgette, mushroom, turnip and barley in tomato sauce) with little herby scone things on the top.
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Siberia a country in which nothing will grow; in some parts there is wheat, and where _wheat_ will not grow _barley_ will, and where _barley_ will not grow _turnips_ will.
Far Off
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What difference, one might ask, is there between a turnip crisp and a potato crisp in terms of its "junkiness" or otherwise?
Lex Ferenda
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Women gathered roots, prairie turnips, bitterroot, and camas bulbs in the early summer.
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He maun be a saft sap, wi 'a head nae better than a fozy frosted turnip --- it wad hae ta'en a hantle o' them to scaur Andrew
Rob Roy
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This enabled cattle and sheep to crop on sown grass and turnips - with the land limed and manured as part of a rotation.
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Scatter the uncooked turnip pieces over the spinach, then scatter the leeks.
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A white couscous, with mutton and chicken and turnips and carrots.
Times, Sunday Times
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The radishes, beets, turnips, carrots and other root vegetables grown at the Student Organic Farm are direct seeded.
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Scatter the quartered turnips and broad beans between the carrots and leeks and heat through for 1 minute.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some graziers are planting paddocks with kale or turnips for winter forage in the North.
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If only I could get the newest back-lit, bluetooth, high resolution, 64 Mb turnip twaddler, I wouldn't ever need another gadget.
Archive 2005-05-01
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A vegetable plant ( Brassica rapa ) related to the turnip and grown for its pungent leafy shoots.
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Some while later he contemptuously clomb the knoll anew and preached in a voice filled with fulmination: "God consists of three potatoes and seven turnips which have been combined in an ingenious manner.
Archive 2009-08-01
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Since beets are not yet in season, Ms. Reusing pairs turnips with savoy cabbage in this springtime borscht.
White Borscht With Turnips, Savoy Cabbage and Horseradish
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Peel the carrots, turnips and celeriac and dice roughly into 2cm cubes.
Times, Sunday Times
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These include turnips, cabbage, mustard, cassava root, soybeans, peanuts, pine nuts and millet.
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We're at least as important to the economy as detecting whether that turnip is really organic or not!)
You Don't Know Me
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The gently spiced meatballs are lightly textured, served on a bed of couscous with steamed carrots, turnip and onion.
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John Hadley builds his house in 1778 from the timbers of wrecked boats, while the British blockade the port and his wife, Coral, plants turnips and sweet peas.
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As confirmation, the classic Italian cookbook the Silver Spoon gives no fewer than 10 versions although admittedly, one of these is a minestrone alla russa – aka borsch: one from Puglia, in the far south, based on their beloved turnip tops, or cime di rapa, a Neapolitan take heavy with Mediterranean peppers and aubergines, which makes an interesting contrast with a recipe from Milan, with its bacon lardons, parmesan and sage.
How to cook perfect minestrone soup
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They were given oats, meal, turnips, in honour and respect for the way in which they cared for and kept Jesus warm on the night of his birth, with their breath, in the cold stable.
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They were terrific, not too turnipy.
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Women gathered roots, prairie turnips, bitterroot, and camas bulbs in the early summer.
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The priestess, whose clear-cut features and two lovely black eyes betrayed a mixture of Semitic blood, was examining the 'turnip' -- as she called the watch -- when Leonora, saying 'Mum's the word,' rather violently called my attention (with her elbow) to a strange parcel lying apart from the rest.
He
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You can be a light bulb, turnip bulb, or tulip bulb.
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Then he looked round for the people of the island: but instead of men, women, and children, he found nothing but turnips and radishes, beet and mangold wurzel, without a single green leaf among them, and half of them burst and decayed, with toad-stools growing out of them.
The Water Babies
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Rich, dark leg meat with tiny cubes of carrot and turnip.
Times, Sunday Times
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Well, I will admit that a concoction made of potatoes, cauliflower, carrots, swede turnips, onions and oatmeal is not very appetizing.
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They start to cook turnips and eat graham crackers, as they wait for their mother to come home.
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Turnip an hed bit it by de time I git back dar en I called my missus en she come en made me eat de rest of de turnip en my face enall swelled up en my eyes war closed foh days.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives
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I would like to know when turnips should be thinned.
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She let me help her cook - I fetched pot holders and handed her the wooden spoons with which she stirred huge pots of turnip soup, the fragrant steam filling the kitchen.
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Are you looking forward to eating some haggis, neaps and tatties (haggis, turnip and potatoes)?
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_Gabi_ (_Caladium_) is another kind of esculent root, palatable to the natives, similar to the turnip, and throws up stalks from 1 to 3 feet high, at the end of which is an almost round leaf, dark green, from 3 to 5 inches diameter at maturity.
The Philippine Islands
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His tent is filled with potatoes, cabbage, turnips, krout, and other delicate morsels of a delicious taste, which abound not in the
Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive
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There was even the most finely slivered vegetables, which turned out to be turnip and carrot, with the assorted raw dishes.
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A pinch of sugar or a little bit of bacon helps tame their turnipy flavor.
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The book of the feted Sydney restaurant features dishes such as "slow braised Berkshire pig jowl, maltose crackling, prunes, soubise cream perfumed with prune kernel oil" and another that uses 20 varieties of radish and turnip.
The 25 best cookbooks of 2010
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There were two species -- one that resembled a small turnip, and, in fact, was the Indian turnip (_psoralea esculenta_), while the other was the wild onion found in many parts of
The Boy Hunters
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Root vegetables such as turnips, swedes and potatoes can last for months if kept in the dark.
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Perhaps I had better tell you once and for all that I refused to go into the turnip and vegetable marrow business.
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Within was a frumenty of beans rich with shreds of dried pig, and made savoury with turnips, cabbages, and onion.
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Celery root, also called celeriac or celery knob, is a turnip-rooted celery used extensively in France for flavoring much as we use celery.
Make It Easy Make It Light
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Women gathered roots, prairie turnips, bitterroot, and camas bulbs in the early summer.
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He had a strange addiction to turnips that made him the gassiest basset hound on the block.
Touch of Evil
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Detach the greens from the turnips; wash the greens and spin-dry.
Groundwork: The sweet, maligned turnip
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Al-Hijaz are almost a1ways old silver pieces, of the turnip shape, with hunting cases and an outer etui of thick leather.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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Clemens spent most of his time at the opening session observing a particularly ill-bred Washoe delegate, “Colonel” Jonathan Williams, eating an eighteen-pound raw turnip at his desk while simultaneously ushering through committee a sinuous new bill for a toll road that stretched conveniently from one tollhouse to another.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
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Just overlook a food source ie bean fields chufa patches and greenfields, turnips.
I know NOTHING about hog hunting and i don't want to get to close to them so IF i hunt them i would have a 30-06 from a hunting
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The same goes for bags of Trader Joe's Diced Harvest Medley (turnips, yams, and butternut squash) or other chains' cut-and-ready-to-cook vegetables.
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Hog dunner w'ich part un 'im'll season de turnip salad.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser
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The Celeriac is known as the beast of vegetables a turnip rooted, celery topped winter crop that is predominantly used in stews or soups.
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Add mushrooms, carrot, turnip, and celery, and cook for 1 minute. Stir in tomato paste and tarragon.
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The animals were all at work weeding turnips under the supervision of a pig, when they were astonished to see Benjamin come galloping from the direction of the farm buildings, braying at the top of his voice.
Animal Farm
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The neat rows will soon show signs of spring onions, carrots, onions, potatoes, garlic, radishes, beetroot, turnip, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, sweetcorn and rhubarb.
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If you'd like to extend the harvest of carrots, turnips and other root vegetables, leave some in the ground to mulch as the weather gets colder.
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Make successional sowings of beetroot, carrots, lettuce, radish and turnips.
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I've bought some turnip seeds (some rare heritage variety, natch…) and intend to grow turnips until they're coming out of my ears.
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Plant cool-weather vegetables such as beets, kale, lettuce, peas, radishes, spinach and turnips in late July, but keep them well watered and mulched.
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Granny disapproved of everything, thought Annie, but Wee Jean ignored the warning, continuing to carefully, messily, carve out the insides of her turnip, chewing a chunk of the raw neep as she worked.
A Small Death in the Great Glen
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Some vegetables in this category include cabbage, collards, kale, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, mustard greens, turnips and radishes.
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Peel and slice lotus root and turnip. Chop up chicken, roast duck and roast pork separately.
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It might have seemed at first as though the future railway engineer was going to settle down quietly to the useful but uneventful life of an agricultural labourer; for from tending cows he proceeded in due time (with a splendid advance of twopence) to leading the horses at the plough, spudding thistles, and hoeing turnips on his employer's farm.
Biographies of Working Men
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We always planted a ridge of turnips and a ridge of cabbage to keep us supplied with vegetables.
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Plant cool-weather vegetables such as beets, kale, lettuce, peas, radishes, spinach and turnips in late July, but keep them well watered and mulched.
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They were given oats, meal, turnips, in honour and respect for the way in which they cared for and kept Jesus warm on the night of his birth, with their breath, in the cold stable.
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DocChuck, Angela and Peter Lusk are over at Zen Burger waiting for you to share their turnip kabab
Breaking News: Haggis Cart May be on 51st | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
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While oats can be seeded anywhere from zero to three inches deep, be careful with the turnip seed.
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WE will begin peaceably by contemplating the world of nature, trees and plants and flowers, common green things against which there is no law – for surely there is no corruption in carrots, no tricks in turnips, no mixed motive in marigolds.
In Times Like These
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Sources of vitamin A include carrots, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, spinach, water squash, turnip greens, beet greens, apricots, and cantaloupe.
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The Cruciferae are any of a family of plants including cabbage, broccoli, turnip, and mustard.
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Had Cleveland done naught else evil he would have damned himself everlastingly by pulling this intumescent jay out of a Nebraska turnip-patch to make him a cabinet clerk.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
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Some grass is grown on the farm for hay or silage, together with swede, turnip or kale for winter forage because grass growth declines drastically in the winter.
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The mighty pumpkin itself has - sadly, in my opinion - supplanted our own dear and humble neep at Halloween - although it is certainly much easier to gouge out a pumpkin than a hard turnip to make a lantern for guisers.
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Vegetables count cole, collard, kale, all ` cabbage 'and preserved in kailyard ` cabbage garden,' symbolic of Scotland's literature since 1895 as in "the kailyard school"; rutabaga ` turnip, 'literally, ` root-bag'; and skirret ` parsnip, 'literally, ` sheer-white.'
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3
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One or two of the gang climbed the banks to discover if any bailiffs were on the watch; while the others sat down, and with the help of the turnip lantern "busked" their spears; in other words, fastened on the steel -- or, it might be, merely pieces of rusty iron sharpened into a point at home -- to the staves.
Auld Licht Idyls
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Noo," he would say to some country bejan, "tak 'the buik i' yer han's no as gin 'twar a neip (turnip), but as gin' twar the sowl o 'a new-born bairn.
Alec Forbes of Howglen
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He tossed these turnips out to the audience, to prove that they weren't doctored, and he started juggling them when they were thrown back.
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There were peas, and beans, and rows of young turnips, and carrots, and parsnips, all bordered by long straight rows of wheat.
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You could put in turnip, buttersquah, swede or mushrooms in this too
Archive 2006-10-01
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He hated pulling and snedding turnips.
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Cameel-brod," said he, and kneeling down he commenced scooping away the sand with his hands, and from a few inches below the surface he soon drew a whitish tuber the size of a large turnip.
A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa
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There were eight kinds of preserved cabbage, soybeans, turnips and mushrooms served as appetizers.
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Once seed sets on the oats the animals go back and forth in their grazing preference so the oats reseed and turnips continue to grow all the way into winter.
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All the men lost weight on a diet of meager amounts of bread with rancid butter and turnip soup that often featured chunks of pigskin - with hair still attached - or a pig's eye.
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Noa, I'll shy it mysel '," said the gallant Jimmy; and at the word whizz came the half of a turnip within art inch of Kate's ear.
The Firm of Girdlestone
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I think you ought to cut back on the fruitcake, perhaps toss back a tasty rhubarb and turnip smoothie.
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Appetizers include Spring Rolls, dumplings, Deep fried Wontons, a selection of salad rolls and even a Pan-Fried Turnip Cake.
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In late July, start carrots, beets, radishes, kale, mustard, spinach and turnips.
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Throughout his life he worked on mechanical and engineering problems, constructing a turnip-cutter and a velocipede, as well as devising methods of reclaiming bogs.
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There were no song birds and the only sound was the gentle rustle of a light breeze through the stiff orderly lines of cabbages, swedes and turnips.
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But Raven was on turnip patrol, which is what we called the weekly mission to Oar to purchase supplies.
The Black Company
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Besides carrots, other root vegetables include turnips, parsnips, radishes, beets and rutabagas.
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A mixture of mushroom, snow peas, pumpkins, carrots, turnips and then I put it with honey, anisette, salt, pepper and put it in the oven.
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Some graziers are planting paddocks with kale or turnips for winter forage in the North.
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Mille feuille of foie gras, boudin noir, braised turnips and apple with a sherry vinegar sauce.
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He maun be a saft sap, wi 'a head nae better than a fozy frosted turnip -- it wad hae ta'en a hantle o' them to scaur Andrew Fairservice out o 'his tale.
Rob Roy — Complete
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Did the menu say those roasted wedges on the side were potatoes, turnips or parsnips?
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As long as there were scraps of potatoes, carrots, turnips and the like, the pig could be fattened and eventually sold for profit.
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My Iranian mate Omid seeks solace in bowls of ash-e anar , a delicious sounding pomegranate soup, while his granddad was a firm believer in the restorative properties of boiled, salted turnips.
The Guardian World News
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Besides the lovely little ornamental garden, the manor had a small herb garden and an immense kitchen garden or kailyard that supplied turnips, cabbages, and vegetable marrows.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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They have done experiments to see whether kale and turnip plants could possibly take up the excess that sometimes builds up in drainage water from irrigation operations.
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Add mushrooms, carrot, turnip, and celery, and cook for 1 minute.
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This diet suggests daily doses of fresh vegetables, including turnips, mustard greens, bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, bok choy, ginger root and sea vegetables.
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Even the accompanying potato and turnip gratin play off tuber and root, the warmth of one, the tang of the other.
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The theory is it takes a smaller area of agricultural land to feed a vegetarian than a meat eater, because the cow sits bovinely chewing grass and farting when you could plant suedes, turnip and other unappetising but highly nutritious vegetables.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Vegetables like cabbage, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and turnips may reduce the risk of cancerous tumors.
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O Harry! nurse Joanna tells me that they do eat but frozen turnips and salted beef in his dreadful country, and that the queen-mother, Margaret, wears a gambison [R] and hauberk [S] like to a belted knight.
Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times
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Cabbage, cauliflower, turnips, kohlrabi and Brussels sprouts predominate, but he also grows potatoes and sugar snap peas.
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Dear heaven, he might even take it on himself to come looking for her, and her basket still held only a single turnip and a few greens for salading.
City of Glory
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Besides carrots, other root vegetables include turnips, parsnips, radishes, beets and rutabagas.
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Add mushrooms, carrot, turnip, and celery, and cook for 1 minute. Stir in tomato paste and tarragon.
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While I may well rue the day I turned down such a potentially lucrative collaboration, I'm afraid I will be unable to ghostwrite your great uncle's memoir about his adventures in turnip farming.
Melanie Benjamin: Ms. Benjamin's Guide to Etiquette for the Polite Reader (and Author)
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In September obtain leaves of sweet-pea, apple, rose bush, maple, oak, turnip, etc., on which the insects are feeding; also provide specimens of woolly aphides on the bark of apple trees or stems of goldenrod or alder.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study
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Rows were well mucked and we grew potatoes, mangolds, turnips and cabbage.
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Sooner or later Science will botanise a bit on your turnip ghosts; and make you look turnips yourselves for having taken any.
Magic A Fantastic Comedy
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Snap beans, turnips, leaf lettuce and spinach are also good candidates for fall harvest.
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The turnips did fine in ground previously inhabited by beans, beets, lettuce and potatoes.
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When the Irish immigrants arrived in America, they found pumpkins abundant and much easier to carve than turnips.
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But Lisa Lu, the Taiwan native and principal of the Pomona Valley Chinese School, said turnip cake is common in her family because the word turnip in the Taiwanese language sounds like the words good luck.
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Most Viewed
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There's nothing I enjoy more than planting some turnips, going to sleep and waking up in the morning to turnip sprouts.
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The aircraft barged through a perimeter hedge, crossed a road and ended up in a soggy turnip field.
Times, Sunday Times
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Add the potatoes and turnips.
Times, Sunday Times
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They plant sweet peas and turnips and make great plans.
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Page 56 like, and where fresh beef is scarcely ever tasted by the poor people, the collard is a very great blessing: because when boiled in a pot with a piece of fat meat and balls of corn meal dough, having the size and appearance of ordinary white turnips, called dumplings, it makes palatable a diet which would otherwise be all but intolerable.
Recollections of the Inhabitants, Localities, Superstitions, and KuKlux Outrages of the Carolinas. By a "Carpet-Bagger" Who Was Born and Lived There
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• 1 Mafe - A stew of chicken, fish, or lamb simmered in peanut butter sauce with vegetables such as yuca, yams, potatoes, carrots, or turnips.
The Kitchn
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Put the pork and dry turnip slices on the pumpkin.
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Among the plants being tried are corn, sunflowers, forage turnips, triticale and various different perennial grasses.
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Other foods children requested after the tour included horned melon, pomelo, vegetable soup, turnip, spinach, soymilk, red cabbage, sweet potato, and tofu.
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The worst foes of the Turnip in the field are the fly and the caterpillar; but in the garden, and more especially the old garden, anbury is the most to be feared.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
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“And the same is true,” said I, “of root-crops, such as mangel-wurzel, turnips, etc., but the fact has no other significance than this: If you grow potatoes for many years on the same land and manure them with nitrogenous manures, the soil is likely to be speedily impoverished of potash.”
Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject
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The air was darkened by a shower of onions, turnips and radishes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The function of the weighbridge was to weigh loads of agricultural produce such as hay, straw or turnips.
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Plant seeds of beets, carrots, leeks, onions, peas, radishes, and turnips.
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In the case of this defence of the Christian conviction I confess that I would as soon begin the argument with one thing as another; I would begin it with a turnip or a taximeter cab.
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Then I came back in and filled the stewpot with turnips that she had finished.
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Add turnips and carrots and simmer for 10 minutes.
Times, Sunday Times
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I suspect it's for harvesting turnips - slice underneath, stab with the hook and throw in the barrow - but whatever, it's an vintage piece of kit.
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You'll need more than a servingof almonds for your daily dose though, so try fortified cereals, sunflower seeds, turnip greens and wheat germ, too.
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As I don't, I merely smile again, and say "Yes" to Jenkyns Soames, who is giving me his reasons for supposing, by calculation, that vegetables have had a pre-adamite existence, and that even a turnip may have a glorious future before it, when man has disappeared from the face of the earth.
Happy-Thought Hall
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100 years ago: A former tinner from Scarborough, who became a national cause celebre after he stole a turnip from a field whilst desperately poor, was in the news again.
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Sixty-four-year-old David Masilo has learnt gardening skills and now, with a donation of land by Region 4, is a proud gardener with rows of Chinese cabbages, spinach, carrots and turnips.
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Remove old kale, mustard and turnip plants before harlequin bugs have a chance to reproduce, and plant successions of radishes, peas, lettuce, spinach, beets, carrots and Chinese greens.
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Finally, a light layer of mulch such as straw, hay, or even autumn leaves act as a layer of insulation, best suited for root crops like carrots, turnips, parsnips, and beets.
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Scatter the quartered turnips and broad beans between the carrots and leeks and heat through for 1 minute.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like carrots, swedes and turnips prefer to be grown in well-drained and friable soil that hasn't been freshly manured.
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Archaeologists discovered a number of perishable items from this period-basketry, a hafted knife, roasted turnips in hearths, and beds of woven twigs and leaves-that would have been lost in an exposed site.
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Big grocers now sell bendy turnips, irregular spuds and tapering carrots.
Times, Sunday Times
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Couscous, a dish made with granulated seminola grains, is usually topped with mutton, veal, or beef and a variety of vegetables such as tomatoes, turnips, and pimentos.
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But it is hard to find anyone from Turin eating orecchiette e cime di rape ear-shaped pasta with turnip greens or a Sicilian ordering saffron risotto.
Where the Stomach Is the Way to the Heart
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Cattle farming required a more intensive cultivation of fodder crops such as maize, potatoes, turnips, and mangels.
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Foods high in beta-carotene: these include yellow-orange vegetables such as carrots, yams, squash, pumpkin, paprika, cayenne pepper and turnips.
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A four-course rotation was adopted based on turnips, clover, barley, and wheat.
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Turnips were broadcast-seeded following one disk tillage of wheat stubble in late July.
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- She is busty and short-waisted with small legs; sort of like a turnip turned on its tip.
Snooki Profiled (And Insulted?) By New York Times
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This was probably the "equinoctial," and when it was over there would be a delightful Indian summer, and the turnips would grow nicely.
Rudder Grange
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I don't know why, as they maintained they had no shoes, they were often so hungry that they ate raw turnip and their only entertainment was playing handball against a wall.
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Turnip greens or collard greens (or a mix) cooked down with a meaty ham hock and a bit of tasso, ladled over a bowl of crumbled cornbread (I echo the "no sugar") and topped with a dollop of chow-chow.
Collard greens, Facebook and Twitter | Homesick Texan
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In West Virginia, quite a lot of folks eat greens of some sort, whether it is kale, collards, turnip greens, beet greens or creasy greens.
Tigers & Strawberries » Hillbillies, Greens and Pigs
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You won't find seedlings of swedes and turnips in your garden centre, so planting seeds are the go.
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Three healthy helpings of fresh mashed potatoes, turnips, carrots and green beans augmented by a some succulent gravy could tackle the eating powers of many an athlete.
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The chicken kiev was slightly crispy and accompanied by the staple favourites potatoes, carrots and turnips.
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As confirmation, the classic Italian cookbook the Silver Spoon gives no fewer than 10 versions although admittedly, one of these is a minestrone alla russa – aka borsch: one from Puglia, in the far south, based on their beloved turnip tops, or cime di rapa, a Neapolitan take heavy with Mediterranean peppers and aubergines, which makes an interesting contrast with a recipe from Milan, with its bacon lardons, parmesan and sage.
How to cook perfect minestrone soup
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I didn't just fall off the turnip truck.
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He maun be a saft sap, wi’ a head nae better than a fozy frosted turnip — it wad hae ta’en a hantle o’ them to scaur Andrew Fairservice out
Rob Roy
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He grows oats, turnips and grass for silage and has introduced 140 Highland cattle, who remain its only occupants.
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Other crops grown over a comparatively small acreage were beans, turnips, potatoes, oats, barley, mangel-wurzels, clover, tares, peas, and rye; these accounted for the remainder of the arable land.
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It was a wake-robin, commonly known as dragonroot, devil's ear, or Indian turnip.
Margaret
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You can have carrots and turnips a couple of times a week.
Times, Sunday Times
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Clemens spent most of his time at the opening session observing a particularly ill-bred Washoe delegate, “Colonel” Jonathan Williams, eating an eighteen-pound raw turnip at his desk while simultaneously ushering through committee a sinuous new bill for a toll road that stretched conveniently from one tollhouse to another.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
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Vegetables grown around the lakes such as spinach, turnips, and tomatoes are sold at dawn in a unique floating market from one boat to another.
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But her neck, where he'd tasted turnips, her little round belly, her ass, her soft round cheeks.
Garden
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The sight of those fields of stubble and turnips, now his own, gave him many secret joys.
Vanity Fair
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Ye turnip-faced spalpeen, oi'll cut yer dirty thrapple wid my gully knife.
The Kangaroo Marines
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Outside the cavern I had viewed various edible herbs and plants such as onions and turnips as well as roots and grasses.
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Quarter Branch is back with its fall harvest of pak choi, Swiss chard, cilantro and basil and beets, radishes, sweet turnips and sweet, tender shelling peas.
Market Roundup: Sept 30-Oct. 7
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You won't find seedlings of swedes and turnips in your garden centre, so planting seeds are the go.
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Alex FouldsDevelopment director, Southern Railway• On seeing the crocheted apple cosies in G2 (Crafts, 23 May), who can have failed to be reminded of the fetching "Shawl-Coatee for Winter Turnip" in the Practice and Fury of Knitting chapter of And Now All This by Sellar and Yeatman (1932)?
Letters: Brighton early
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In heating the Indian turnip and other corms, it was found that the heat applied must be sufficient to change the character of the starch or the so-called acridity was not destroyed.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
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Only it was turnip-hudded dunce, I beg your pardon, and he would jokes bowlder — blow the betholder with his black masket off the bawling green. —
Finnegans Wake
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We then enjoyed an Aboriginal feast of moose, halibut, smoked salmon, stuffed salmon, turnip, herring roe and oolichan (also known as the “candlefish”).
Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2007 » October
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Soon the nail soup contained beef stock, turnips and onions.
Principles of Corporate Finance
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Big grocers now sell bendy turnips, irregular spuds and tapering carrots.
Times, Sunday Times
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The majority of people never bother to buy squash - they see it in the supermarket or farmers market, admire its other-worldly shapes, then head for the more familiar carrots, turnips and corn.
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Some grass is grown on the farm for hay or silage, together with swede, turnip or kale for winter forage because grass growth declines drastically in the winter.
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Add about 3 cups of chopped mixed greens such as collard, turnip, kale, chard, mustard, spinach etc.
Let Them Eat Bread With Their Soup Soup
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a place with the rurality of a turnip field
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* An elderly "turnip" - style pocket watch -- not working
Boing Boing: July 20, 2003 - July 26, 2003 Archives
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When the potatoes and turnips are nearly perfect, carve the beef.
Times, Sunday Times
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he chief crops grown for early supplies, or "primeurs" as they are called, are special varieties of cos and cabbage lettuces, short carrots, radishes, turnips, cauliflowers, endives, spinach, onions, corn salad, and celery.
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The Irish people carved scary faces out of turnips , beets or potatoes representing "Jack of the Lantern", or Jack-O-Lantern.
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There were no song birds and the only sound was the gentle rustle of a light breeze through the stiff orderly lines of cabbages, swedes and turnips.
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The name of the plant descends from Old English rapum ‘turnip’, while the crime is a derivative of the Latin verb rapere ‘to seize’.
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Every farmer should grow his own seed, as he cannot be over particular in choosing the turnips for planting for seed.
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In the summer find burdock, turnips, cucumbers, mint, lemon grass, Chinese chive, soybeans and coriander.
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There are occasional fields of sainfoin and of turnips; but these latter are small, and no ridging or hurdling is yet practised.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863
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Not one of the principal human or animal food plants of Ireland is a native. Cabbage, turnip, carrot, swede, beet, wheat, barley, potato, tomato - all are introductions from abroad.
