If you're not sure where to start, try picking out two vegetables that seem similar at first glance, like turnip and rutabaga. Turnips and rutabagas are both bulbous, round, purplish vegetables ...

Turnip Root Colors: golden, purple top, red, white. Here are a few tips about preparing turnips, rutabagas and parsnips. Raw (turnips): Cut off greens, rinse turnips under cool running water to clean, ...

The following excerpt is their recipe for Scalloped Rutabaga. The prairie turnip is a root vegetable that prairie Lakota and Sioux harvested for cooking and for trading with nations to the south.