Have you ever had fried turnips? They lose a lot of bitterness after being fried. One of my favorite ways to cook turnips is the soup recipe below, where the taste of the fried turnips makes for a very hearty soup. I suspect the recipe only works well with home grown turnips.

http://www.soupsong.com/rturnip1.html

(Don’t forget the parsley and cheese, the soup isn’t the same without them. They are more than just an optional garnish.)

Love ready your stuff.

By the way, do you still have any of those orange jelly?? turnip seeds? I would be happy to trade for something. My sig other doesn’t like golden turnips… I love there slightly bitter taste but he doesn’t fancy them.

That’s a nice way of putting it, a smaller footprint by stepping lightly. That pretty much sums it up.

I agree with you on most, if not all points! Marketers don’t like it when people say that we don’t ‘need’ something so when people start supplying their own produce or buy locally, you see this used an advertising gimmick in stores: ‘local, organic’. Now, maybe these really are local foods but quite frankily I don’t know how local.

As well, many an environmentally conscious well meaning friend of mine has kitted themselves up to make themselves feel like they are having less of an impact.

To have less of a footprint, step less. Or in other words, buy less, buy second hand, don’t buy.

Oh, and for those parents out there let me be political for a moment: longterm breastfeeding – no bottles, no formula, no fuss, less food consumption. And here’s a secret that I only found out a couple of years ago (you don’t need diapers – sshhh: http://www.natural-wisdom.com/). I realize that parenting without product isn’t always possible, practical or easy but it is something to consider. (Wow this is turning out to be a long reasponse) For example, we don’t ‘do’ christmas with presents at our house and so far the kids don’t hate us.

Deciding not to buy isn’t always the most time efficient, easy choice but it’s a great way to both stick it to the system, and to step lightly.