Experiments in breakfast.

We're drowning in turnips over here.  I am not complaining.  I am merely stating a fact.  And having now exhausted all of my turnip recipes, even recycled them several times over, I decided this morning that it was time to swing for the fences and do something wacky but potentially revolutionary in the arena of breakfast.  Okay, maybe it was all of the turnips making me a little bit loopy (there are so many of them and they are always there, always staring at me--or maybe not--with their little blank faces, it can be hard to tell), but still, I thought I had a terrifically radical idea: what about hash browns, but made from turnips instead of potatoes?

It took me about five seconds on the Internet to discover that I was far from the first intrepid soul with this idea.  In fact, much to my deep disappointment, I discovered that low-carbers the world over think that turnip hash browns are the best thing maybe since the rejection of all breads, whether sliced or in happy healthy loaves.  But, because I fundamentally reject the low-carb lifestyle, I decided it wouldn't be morally consistent to crib one of their recipes.

So, I went it alone.  And although the result was definitely tasty, it was still a reminder why I like recipes so darn much.  My hash browns turned out all soft and smooshy, not crisp and crunchy.  The husband suggested more oil and a lower heat for a longer period of time.  I think he is probably right, but I also think that something was wrong with my batter.  It was only after I finished happily grating the turnips and a bit of onion,* beating in an egg and seasoning the whole mess with salt and pepper, that I realized what I had made was not so much hash browns as a riff on turnip latkes.  So now I have a new Hanukkah recipe, but my revolutionary turnip hash remains a work in progress.  I will spare you the letdown of a mediocre recipe until we get it right.

* Did you know that some low-carb fanatics reject onions as food or flavor, deeming them to be too high in carbs?  This is only one of the disturbing discoveries I made while innocently trolling for a little assist with my too-many-turnips woes.