re: Soups: Winter edition (also super healthy edition)

I found the recipe to make for my mom. She had told me that she had some cream of turnip soup at a restaurant that reminded her of her own mother's soup, so I made a batch for her. She called me every night that week to tell me how much she had enjoyed her soup that day.

I think during WWII people ate lots of turnips during the winter from their backyard Victory Gardens, so her generation may have gotten burned out on them. Except for the requisite chopped turnip in greens, she never fixed them for us when we were growing up. It was a new taste sensation for me-- I think I like the peppery goodness of turnips.