Converse of object

• peel: Using a channeling knife, carefully remove a long thin lace from around a peeled parsnip.

• roast: Serve with the roasted parsnips and onions, any remaining glaze and a fresh green salad.

• add: To boil, bring a pan of water to the boil and add the prepared parsnips.

• sow: You'll also read about sowing parsnips in February.

• grow: The problem with growing parsnips is that they have a very long growing season.

• cut: Cooking Cut the parsnips into chunks and cook them in boiling water until easily penetrated with a kitchen knife ( about 20 minutes ).

Adjective modifier

• wild: Wherever the soil is dry and chalky the wild parsnip may be found.

• large: Larger parsnips may have a woody core which should be removed.

• small: Small parsnips in light soil can be pulled up once the soil around them has been loosened with a fork.

• few: Whilst frying a batch of potatoes, William found a few loose parsnips in the bottom of the crate.

• great: Greater water parsnip, once common in Lincolnshire but now almost extinct, has been planted in the new wetland area.

Modifies a noun

• puree: Mix the parsnip purée with the apple, add 1 tablespoon organic sunflower oil.

• mash: Both went well with a robust Madeira sauce and parsnip mash.

• soup: My partner, Marc, had the parsnip soup which didn't quite live up to its mouth watering description.

• seed: Dwarf beans have been put in, also four plots of parsnip seeds have been sown.

• chip: L Griffiths, Aberdare I have just eaten my second packet of your parsnip chips.

• puree: Then layer the rest of the parsnip puree and apples on top.

Noun used with modifier

• roast: Roast parsnip soup with chive & Parmesan cream A very simple soup which is a winter classic.

• water: Greater water parsnip, once common in Lincolnshire but now almost extinct, has been planted in the new wetland area.

• cow: The cow parsnip Is one of the most common. growing by roadsides and on waste ground everywhere and flowering from June until late autumn.