— Judith Trusdell

I don't know of many vegetables where the the A potatoes don't eat potato greens. Nope. Don't eat potato greens. That's Nightshade. You don't want to do that sweet potato greens are delicious though turnip greens mustard greens, which is kohlrabi greens all of those. Yes, I think generally root vegetable greens when they're attached to yeah attached like they are with a beat or going to be delicious. Yes, and there's oftentimes sort of three vegetables in one say with these beets. You know, you have the beat the vegetable you have the Beet stock which to me is it completely different ingredients than the beat Green often? Lump together sold together like Swiss chard, but even when I cook swiss chard, which is not a root vegetable, but very similar to beets above the ground. I tend to cook the stocks and the greens separately. I'll mix them together, but I don't try and get a single outcome for two very different vegetables in the same pan. I'll just cook them separately and then mix them because you want a little bit of crunch and texture on the the stem, but I don't want that on the stock, but I don't want that necessarily in the green. So one Cooks longer than the other at different temperatures, perhaps maybe with some moisture in one. So that's the way I think about that is for splitting those up and thinking of them as two ingredients and what actually constitutes a root vegetable. Well very helpfully. I looked up this on Wikipedia and the paragraph there. The first two paragraphs on Wikipedia are going to give you a far better answer than what I remember of those first two paragraphs. But basically it is an underground storage vessel for that plant. Whether it's for different purposes like ginger is a rhizome which sends out new plants through the little nodules. So this is the basis of it potatoes are sort of similar in that they are storage vessels from which asexual reproduction happens. and so I got to say that on in this event, but oftentimes they are sort of the storage vessels so that when the annual plant above the ground dies the turnip underneath the ground is there to provide the nutrients for a new plant to grow so it's not a perennial but rather a self perpetuating annual in that way. So basically their storage vessels underground full of nutrients and deliciousness for both plants and for us Thank you fruit vegetables for being so delicious.

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