Just before planting time, I saw a recipe for roasted radishes that convinced me to overcome my initial determination not to plant any of that particular, frankly uninspiring, veggie.
Usually the most radish I ever want is three or four small slices in a salad, for color. I'm not a fan.
In the midst of last week's flurry, I found myself mixing dough, thawing chicken (for Will to make chicken cheesesteaks, a Philly treat; and he's from Philly, apparently, now that he goes to school there)...
...and taking advantage of heating the oven for the bread to roast a few radishes, just to see. I usually really love any vegetable if you roast it (and of course, deep fry it!).
{Don't forget to try Eggplant Obsession!}
I didn't over-commit myself.
Which is just as well, because the verdict is... meh. Just really not that great.
On the other hand, don't you love the other stool?
19 comments:
if you don't like radishes, then maybe not this either:
cold crisp raw radish
room temp unsalted butter
little pile of sea salt.
dip in butter first, then salt.
i like it.
deb meyers
This reminds me of a recipe I used to make when we belonged to a CSA half a decade ago. Sauteed radishes with the greens wilted right in the dish. I don't like raw radishes at all, but the sauteing added a sweetness and nuttiness. I did like them this way.
I read this post a little too quickly before the coffee cleared the bleariness out of my eyes and wondered who in the world would make or eat chicken cheesecake. Blech! :) Thanks for the chuckle!
Radishes? The only good way to eat them is pickled.
Slice the radishes thin. Salt and leave in a bowl a few minutes. Come back, wring out the radishes. Add a tablespoon or so of rice vinegar. Let steep 5 minutes or so. Voila.
Thanks for the laugh!
Betty
Thanks for the laugh! I am in agreement about radishes. However, I was a little excited about the name of the post. My second son is the gardner (farmer wannabe) and he planted a lot of radishes this year. My husband has made all kinds of concoctions with them, none of them I really know what he did. I do like Colette's idea. We'll have to try that.
Question - how does one get rid of slugs that seemed to have plagued everything?
Cary
I keep trying with the radishes as well, especially since this year we had about 5 different varieties ~ what can I say, their fast growth is so satisfying to little boys ~ but I still have no clue what to do with them apart from a few sliced in a salad. The whole pickled thing looks like it is worth a shot though ~ maybe refrigerator pickles?
Is that what they look like once they're roasted?! Weird!
never heard of roasting radishes - like you, we use them for color in salad. But they are brilliant pickled or marinated in some kind of vinaigrette. Toss some cheese in there or nuts or maybe some herbs and eat it as a side dish or on top of a green salad. Very good!
Cary, try sprinkling coarse sand around your plants. There are many remedies...Slugs are gross.
Thanks for the radish ideas, guys! I did make a killer salad using about 1 1/2 radishes, sliced thing. I'll try pickling.
They do grow quickly, and that is consoling.
I discovered radishes for the first time a couple of years ago when we bought some at the farmer's market. Now I'm hooked. But I've never done anything more with them than to slice them for salad. I'll have to try them pickled. I also love fresh radish greens sauteed in some bacon fat with a little red pepper flakes and the bacon crumbled on top. It's my new favorite green dish. But it means I make lots of salads with radishes too. One bunch of radishes doesn't yield many greens.
I'm pretty skeptical about the roasted radishes, though. Don't think I'll try that any time soon.
Next time, try radish chips
http://cheaphealthygood.blogspot.com/2010/06/green-kitchen-baked-radish-chips.html
I only got a few because my kids gobbled them up fast.
Our version of cooked radishes is sliced and sauteed in butter. If we have greens of any kind (radishes or kale or chard) we add that in. My kids won't touch radishes raw, but will eat them this way. Melanie B, I'd just add the sliced radishes to your yummy sounding greens when you're cooking.
I'm with those who suggested pickling. I also ditto Rosie's comment - those look really strange after roasting!
I was hoping you would say you liked them. I always plant radishes and we only eat a few. Oh, well, chicken food.
I don't know how to email a reply to your comments so here I am to answer your chicken egg question in case you don't get back to my blog to read it there. Our eggs cost us about $2 a dozen. I can't let them out to forage so that drives the feed cost up. I wish I had a lot of grass and then I would put them in chicken tractors to forage. Oh, and we are raising nine chicks for meat and eggs so that adds to the feed bill. Funny, when I asked my hubby he gave me an almost disgusted(with the chickens, cause they are pigs) look before he answered.
Thanks for the kind reply on my other post. I go back and forth with being content with just mothering and then wanting to be super homemaker mom. I always end up telling myself, that yes, I could be the super homemaker...if I sent my kids to school! I think I will stick with my slightly messy, unstylish home instead.
End of book.
Funny post! The favorite use for them in my family are radish sandwiches. It is just buttered bread (homemade is by far preferred) with sliced radishes inside. Yum! But maybe it is an acquired taste? I can't wait to try them pickled now.
We planted radishes - but only as a companion plant... only hubby eats them, and only a little. I feel rather the same way about them as you.
Yes I love the red stool!
We found them to be a good addition (sliced or whole) in casseroles and or stews as they almost have a mushroom consistancy. But....as for flavor - it's okay - seems to take on the flavors of what you mix 'em in with :) - Only good to know when you have a ton of them (as we did when they grew AMAZINGLY WELL while everything else NOT SO MUCH!) :)
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