Parsnips are my FAVORITE vegetable (maybe along with lima beans)!!  Anyway, the way I make them, I think most people would like.  Peel, cut into whatever lengths you want--just like you would with carrots, put in casserole dish with butter, salt and pepper and bake in the oven.  Better than dessert, they are so sweet and so gooooood.  In fact, I bought them the other day to have with whatever gourmet delight (LOL) I decide to make for dinner tonight.

So, what gourmet delight did you throw together tonight, Cyn? Parsnips, notwithstanding. ;)

Actually, I have never tried parsnips baked in butter. That sounds really good. I will try that with my remaining parsnips.

But, when it comes to lima beans, I don’t believe there is anything anyone could do to a dish of lima beans that would make it possible for me to choke them down unless it involved burying them in ketchup. I love almost all other beans, but lima beans are my Waterloo. They just won’t go down the hatch unless they’re completely disguised.

Gourmet delight indeed!!  Actually I broke the bank on a wonderful, wonderful piece of beef--Delmonico is my favorite for steak, so I bought one of the Delmonico “gourmet” cut roasts.  Melt in your mouth delight and cooked the way I like it--mooing!! ;) and then all the bits and pieces deserving of such a fine roast along with my parsnips of course.  Do try them that way, they are soooooo good.

You feel about lima beans the way I do about beets!! 

Have you ever had succotash--baby lima beans in that are so good.  My mom made the best and because she made it for me, I never asked for the recipe and now that she is gone, I might never have it again.. ;( Someday I am going to go through all her recipes and there are hundreds and hundreds to see if she ever wrote it down.  I sure hope so, although no one else in my family likes it.

No, succotash and I don’t get along, either. First there are the lima beans hiding in it. Then there is the creamed corn. I am a lousy New Englander.

I loooove beets, though. 

I think a rare Delmonico steak is the international language for ohmygodthat’stodieforgood.

I hope you find the succotash recipe in your mom’s files. Hopefully she wrote it down even if it was one of those recipes she could make in her sleep, blindfolded. My mom had a few of those recipes and, unfortunately, they never made it into her files. I remember asking her a few times how to make a couple of her dishes and she’d wrinkle up her forehead and think. “I don’t know,” she’d say. “I just make it. After all these years, it’s habit. You’ll have to watch me make it and write it down.” Which I never did, very unfortunately.

Gee I don’t think I have ever eaten a parsnip!  I guesss I had better try one