Ok, just teasing, but I did have a bad experience yesterday. Boiled one pot each of turnips and rutabagas and cut them up for mock potato salad. My rutabagas had an awful bitter aftertaste! It spoiled the entire salad. I tried adding some lemon juice, thinking that might neutralize the bitter, but to no avail.

So is it that I just don't like the way rutabagas taste or did I prepare them wrong so that they were bitter? I peeled them and boiled them. The turnips are ok, but very fibrous. Holy cow I had to boil those suckers all darned afternoon to get them soft enough to eat. I take it you need to take more than just the skin off the outer layer, as they seemed softer inside.

Guess I need a quick cooking lesson on these veggies...