Let's see...

[conuly]

If I make steak tonight, I can make it with parsnips and carrots, and a side of green beans. Or maybe peas. Easy peasy, and I can even toss in some potatoes with it.

I need to go to the store. Got a rutabaga with our winter CSA. No idea what I'm gonna do with that.

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Comments

[rantinan.livejournal.com]

I like to cube sweedes (i believe that's a more traditional name for rutabagas. at least in australia) and then toss em in with a stew.
another option that works quite nicely is simmering in a little stock (vegata or another dehydrated vegetarian stock will do nicely)
this latter goes great with some parsnip slices shallow fried in butter, and makes a person wonder why old fashioned foods still aint fashionable, because YUM

[conuly]

I think rutabaga is actually the Swedish term for the plant. Americans don't call them swedes, when we call them anything at all, that is :)

Tangent: One math class in high school, the teacher made a huge deal, every time it came up, that root, radish, and radical (in both the math and the social senses) all were cognates.

Didn't learn much math in that class. Did learn a tiny bit of etymology.