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He enhanced the meat’s flavor with a rich whiskey-shallot-ostrich broth reduction, serving wilted watercress and mashed turnips and rutabagas on the side.

From Seattle Times • May 23, 2023

Other root vegetables for fall harvest are turnips, carrots, rutabagas, and parsnips.

From Salon • Sep. 19, 2021

But otherwise it’s a bit apples to rutabagas.

From Slate • Aug. 15, 2019

Turnips and rutabagas need no peeling if they’re young.

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2016

Most of the meals Thula managed to put before her children consisted of thin stews made from parsnips, rutabagas, potatoes, and chipped beef.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown