I love radishes. One of my favorite vegetables.
Also one of the few foods that give me inexplicable instant acid foaming back up from my stomach. I’ll eat habaneros for giggles, no problem, but a single one of those little round red monsters in a salad and I’m out.
Too bad they taste bad
Roast them
Radish the kind of veggie that gets relegated to a mook in DBZ
There, roasted.
yeah im not a fan myself. I guess it is a good target for supplements.
I like radishes, raw and pickled. And it used to be very cheap food. But in US it’s really expensive. I wish we could just grow stuffs freely. Radishes are ready in 2-3 months if grown.
You say they have no calories like that should make me more inclined to want to eat them. We are not all fat you know.
I do like radishes though.
As someone who tries desperately to bulk, fitness/health marketing is so frustrating.
I need calories, these small portion minimal fat and calorie bull shit foods low-key piss me off.
That sounds like medicine to me, not food :P
They taste like it too
If anyone here dislikes the peppery taste of raw radishes, I recommend cutting them into chunks, tossing with some olive oil, salt, and other seasoning and roast them until they are tender. This gets rid of the peppery taste and makes them taste more like potatoes or turnips.
The peppery taste is what I like most about radishes.
That’s always been my issue with them. I’ve been trying to expand my palate continuously, and this sounds wonderful. Definitely giving it a try.
Huh, I might try that. While I like the taste of radishes, I never know what to do with them other than toss in a salad. My kids don’t like the taste so another option is bonus
Or in soup.
I mean they’re cool, but they’re not that cool.
They’re only rad-ish.
That was way more clever than it had any right to be… Get out!
How dare you…take my dam upvote
dam
Don’t suppose you’re actually a beaver?
When prepared well I find them radishing.
And they’re by far the easiest vegetable to grow yourself, so much so that being called a ‘radish farmer’ is an insult.
I would still mess it up.
Not really it is those wascally wabbits and deer. Poor soil too.
They’re easier than zucchini? Does that make keeping radishes from taking over their entire plots actually kind of difficult or do they just grow perfectly only where you plant them?
Also, depending on your local climate, you might be surprised how quick and easy it is to grow your own turnips. If you’re in a temperate northern hemisphere climate, good chance you can have fresh home grown turnips for 8+ months of the year, if not the whole year. They don’t take a lot of time to reach maturity, you can basically plant a small batch of seeds every few weeks to keep things going.
Yes, they are delicious on their own, fresh cut in salads, and so on. You can roast/bake/cook them, and they take on a taste and texture similar to potatoes. You can soak them in a pickling brine (1:4 vinegar to water with a bit of salt) for a few hours minimum and that will also eliminate most of the “bite” if you don’t like that part of their flavor profile.
You can eat the greens, too. Chop them up and saute. I don’t like radishes though. I wish I did. I worked a few summers on an Amish farm and radishes are fun to harvest.
Who would’ve guessed radishes were so radical vegetables.
Pickled radish is delectable, amazing of salads and sandwiches.
I don’t like raw radishes, but I will devour pickled ones.
I like radishes raw but pickled sounds really good. I’ll have to try making some.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen those in the shops. Do you pickle your own?
I do, brew wine out of maple syrup I make and apple cider I press, buckets get infected and become vinegar, mother of vinegar eats alcohol below 5 pc concentration.
I throw cut up veggies in there, peppercorns and spices, lots of spicy peppers as I am a fiend. Radishes take longer to soak through than zuchinis and cabbages and the like but go great with them.
Separate question… How’s the maple syrup wine? I used to home brew but haven’t had the time in a while.
And how are the hangovers from it? It sounds delicious tbh but I can already hear my brain screaming.
It is good, but not like you might imagine, there are a wide range of flavours that can result from it. I haven’t noticed any hangovers outside of the turbo yeast but that’s not made for wine, but I’ve used it when in a hurry, that is like the 48 hour stuff. That produces off target substances that cause hangovers more.
But it’s good, very interesting complex tastes result from it. The colonists traditionally used their off tasting syrup for it, the french made mapleesqueue or something like that, a maple liqueur, where they added syrup to the finished product to back sweeten.
Nom nom nom nom nom nom nom.
Radishes contain almost no calories
Not very amazing then, given that I need those to survive.
I always hate seeing this. I get a lot of people struggle with being overweight, but there are those of us that struggle maintaining a healthy weight. But all health stuff seems to be focused on low calories and losing weight. I can’t even program fitness/eating apps to help me gain weight - best I can do is “maintain current weight”.
Well that’s an easy fix: use maintain weight, and then eat a little more ;)
Even easier: maintain my weight then you’ll gain all you want
Omg, is that really the secret to eating disorders? Just “eat more”? Wow! You should be a licensed dietician!
Do you appreciate it when people tell you “just eat less?”. Does that actually work? I guess that means all fat people are just willingly fat, right? They just have to choose to eat less. Why even have health apps in the first place if it’s just that simple? Fat people are just lazy.
You see how when flipped around this is wildly offensive, but somehow you think telling someone struggling with low weight to “just eat more” isn’t?
Not really. With this flipped around my reaction is …. “whooOOSHH”.
How is it that now even self-deprecating humor targeting oneself can get someone ‘s panties in a bunch?
So someone posts their issue and you think a flippant joke dismissing them is funny?
Enjoy being a fat piece of shit then. I hope you get zero help and everyone just mocks you too.
Health apps also track calories out and this doesn’t work for that. Health apps want you to be on a decifit generally(eat less and exercise more). They’re just not setup for even “maintain” very well. This doesn’t solve the issue that most health apps are obesity centered and have alerts for too many calories, but almost never for too few. This doesn’t create a useful plan tailored to my needs, this is just “use something different and pretend it’s the same”. We do not have the same struggles and the apps don’t acknowledge any of that.
But thanks for acting like the entire problem is “just eat more”. Omg, why didn’t I think of that? Why am I trying to use create a plan to help me when I could have just eaten more! Omg! You solved it! You solved all eating disorders! Congrats! All my anxieties just suddenly vanished and I can be normal!
Oh come on. Don’t just ignore my smiley and go on a rant like a boomer snowflake.
also it’s not like other vegetables have the energy density of plutonium, aside from the starchy stuff most vegetables have precisely the amount of calories that’s good for you.
Learn to fill up on veggies and you cannot overeat. No one got overweight gorging on non staple starch veggies or fruit.
If they do not taste good, do not eat for a day or two, and cut any salt or sugar, your palette will learn to appreciate real food.
The leaves are edible too,I use them in various recipes
The leaves are edible too,
I actually didn’t know that
