Where can I find Castania Nuts & best quality Pink Pickeled Turnips in the Bay Area?

[rdabke]

Where can I find Castania Nuts & best quality Pink Pickeled Turnips in the Bay Area?

[rdabke]

Mel
Thanks for the suggestions, I bought a bottle.
Beware! The lady at MidEast Deli mixes in pickled beets into her home made jars of Pickled Turnips, perhaps because they are cheap & also red in color. So they are not true, pure or 100% pickled turnips, better to buy them sealed from the store.

[Melanie Wong]

Aren't beets more expensive than turnips? The beets give the red/purple color, otherwise they'd be white unless dye were added. Adding a few slices is the old-world, traditional recipe for aging in the jar. This is not an industrial process. Here's Claudia Roden's recipe that does it the same way -
http://www.galaxylink.com.hk/~john/fo...

But more importantly, did you like the taste?

[rdabke]

I sit corrected! I liked te turnip taste until I discovered the first beet. I like beets too but thats not what I had paid for or had expected since there was no ingredients list.

[Melanie Wong]

Don't know about best, but I really liked the homemade pickled turnips from MidEast Deli in Fremont. Here's the post -
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/show/...

[Robert Lauriston]

You mean Castania brand nuts from Lebanon?

Indus Foods in Berkeley has a huge selection of Middle Eastern stuff. I'm pretty sure I've seen several brands of pickled turnips.

[chocolatetartguy]

You could try Dirty Girl Farms (name?) at the Berkeley markets. I believe it's they who are selling various pickled produce. Not sure they do turnips, but the beets and everything else I've tried are very good.

[donbonus]

Happy Girl....