If you've ever spotted cream-colored carrots at the grocery store, there's a good chance you've actually found parsnips. This root vegetable looks similar to carrots in shape and size but is quite ...

Somewhere along the line, carrots got the better marketing, leaving their cousin vegetable, parsnips, out in the cold (though that is literally not a bad thing since frosty weather makes them taste ...

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'We're afraid of what we don't know - the parsnips, the rutabagas, the turnips," said executive chef Travis Lorton. "They're difficult to cook properly because they're roots. They are fibrous, so ...

It's time for a new side dish recipe and I'm excited to share this delicious parsnip puree recipe. This creamy, fluffy ...

As the evenings grow darker and foliage tumbles down, it's the ideal season to indulge in snug, comforting cuisine. Autumn has firmly arrived, and meals such as succulent slow-braised beef or hearty ...

If any vegetable could have a split personality, it would surely be the parsnip. The root vegetable brought to America in the 17th century looks like a pale carrot and gets such varied reactions from ...

A cook has shared his simple go-to way to cook carrots and parsnips that will go perfectly with Christmas dinner, saying one thing makes them 'better'. As Christmas creeps closer and closer each day, ...

A sweet tender treat awaits my taste buds whenever I prepare parsnips. Parsnips are truly one of my favorite vegetables that I first enjoyed as a young child. Growing up on a farm in central Maine, my ...

Parsnips retain one characteristic that no potato can replicate -- flavor. The taste is sweet and distinct, and the aroma further fuels the ardor that parsnips inspire among the culinary elite.

Parsnips develop their best flavor after the first frost, so harvest them in early winter before they start regrowing in spring. Wear gloves when digging them up, as parsnip foliage can irritate skin.

Polling people who love to cook elicited equally uninformed reactions. No one was sure how to prepare parsnips. "I've seen them," said Dorothy Atherton of Vienna, Va., who stops at roadside stands to ...