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When my Sweetie and I settled down in the theater seats I gave him

these seeds!

Then after the movie, which by the by was cute and funny, I told my Sweetie when he came home if he gave me back this seed packet

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I would Give him his TURNIP GIFT!

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As I began typing this post I felt the URGE to look at some things…

So at the end of the LOOKING you will better understand MY TURNIP GIFT, or not ;)

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The Macomber turnip is featured in one of the very few historic markers for a vegetable, on Main Road in Westport, Massachusetts.

Turnip Flower Cheesy Turnips and Carrots

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"Milk-tasting turnips and carrots are wonderfully enhanced by ginger, onion and a mouth-watering creamy cheese sauce in this super side dish. The serving bowl is always empty at the end of the meal. -- Sandra Melnychenko, Grandview, Manitoba"

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10 Min

COOK TIME

20 Min

READY IN

30 Min

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SERVINGS & SCALING Original recipe yield: 4 servings US METRIC About scaling and conversions

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INGREDIENTS · 3 cups diced peeled turnips · 2 cups sliced carrots · 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger · 3/4 cup water · 1 teaspoon salt, divided · 1/2 cup chopped onion · 1/2 cup diced celery · 3 tablespoons butter or margarine · 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour · 1/4 teaspoon pepper · 1 1/2 cups milk · 1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese

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DIRECTIONS 1.In a saucepan, combine turnips, carrots, ginger, water and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Cover and cook over medium-high heat for 10-15 minutes or until vegetables are tender; drain and reserve liquid. Set vegetables aside. In a skillet, saute onion and celery in butter until tender; stir in flour, pepper and remaining salt. Add milk and the vegetable liquid; bring to a boil. Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly. Stir in cheese until melted; stir in the vegetables and heat through.

THEN I found

Turnip gratin

Check the link it sounds YUMMY The Irish used turnips as their "Jack's lanterns" originally. But when the immigrants came to America, they found that pumpkins were far more plentiful than turnips. So the Jack-O-Lantern in America was a hollowed-out pumpkin, lit with an ember.

Well MY TURNIP has nothing to do with any of this!

Nope it is my silly way of telling someone that they are special. All ya gotta do is get a seed packet, enclose it in a card and makes someone’s day.

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I got this [the picture did not turn out too well, too dark…it is a new set of fireplace tools] [with a shovel that WORKS] for my Sweetie, AND ON SALE ~~~ YA ½ OFF, how kewl is that. The reason I did? Well yesterday as I was preparing the French Onion Soup, I took a break and cleaned the ashes out of the fireplace.

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Do you know what the floor looked like when the shovel pivoted out of the rod it was screwed into and onto the FLOOR? YIKES, YE GADS and Gadzooks. Ashes all over… Needless to say I was irked… ;O @@@@@@@@

Now this will not happen… but then I COULD have waited for my Sweetie to clean the ashes, and it would have happened to him… Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm trying to visualize that TEE HEE!

@@@ Think it was better I made an ASH out of myself! Pun INTENDED!