{"id":1196,"date":"2017-06-14T16:14:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T20:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2017-06-14T16:51:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T20:51:56","slug":"tossing-around-some-thoughts-on-radishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/?p=1196","title":{"rendered":"Tossing Around Some Thoughts on Radishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1192\" style=\"width: 816px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1192\" src=\"http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pharis-e1497469003673.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"816\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pharis-e1497469003673.jpg 816w, http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pharis-e1497469003673-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pharis-e1497469003673-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Sliced radish and sugar snap pea salad with sesame vinaigrette<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Plate by Mark Pharis<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Radishes are not the first thing I think of when I make a salad but they add variety to the usual greens. They are crunchy, colorful, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radish\">nutritious<\/a> and add a little sharpness to a salad that might otherwise be bland or neutral. One of the first vegetables available in spring, radishes make a delicious addition to a salad or can be eaten out of hand as a snack. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/?p=9\">Saut\u00e9ed radishes<\/a> are a fantastic side dish and radishes are also tasty roasted, good to remember once roasting season rolls around. We had some sliced radish recently in a tasty salad with a smoked aioli for dressing. It was the only bright spot in an otherwise disappointing dinner but it did inspire me to buy some.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1193\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1193\" src=\"http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/grocery-radishes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/grocery-radishes.jpg 720w, http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/grocery-radishes-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Grocery store radishes are available year round<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Spring radishes come in many varieties and shades of pink from pale to magenta. If you slice them thinly (a mandolin helps) and soak them briefly in a bowl of cold water, they lose a bit of their bite. Growing up, there was always a bowl of radish &#8220;flowers&#8221; in our refrigerator, waiting to be added to a salad. I don\u2019t remember them tasting like much because after a long soak, the radishes become all crunch and no flavor.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1194\" style=\"width: 673px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/radishes-e1497468842940.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"673\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/radishes-e1497468842940.jpg 673w, http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/radishes-e1497468842940-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Fresh radishes at the Union Square Greenmarket<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">You can cut radishes into matchsticks as well as slices (or the ubiquitous rose) or use a vegetable peeler to shave them into ribbons. I&#8217;ve never tried it but I imagine a spiralizer would make beautiful strands to compose a salad. A radish salad profits from a well made\u00a0dressing with fresh lime juice or toasted sesame oil that will stand up to their bite but any flavorful vinaigrette or aioli will work. Radishes can be mixed easily with other spring vegetables and fruit. Try baby greens, tiny white turnips, blanched asparagus (cut on a diagonal), pea shoots, parsley, scallions, avocado or mango. \u00a0You can even toss in some toasted nuts or seeds. My favorite simple combination is radish and sugar snap peas &#8211; also quite beautiful.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1195\" style=\"width: 703px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/license-e1497468910616.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"703\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/license-e1497468910616.jpg 703w, http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/license-e1497468910616-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Radish lovers!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">photo by D. Lewis<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radishes are not the first thing I think of when I make a salad but they add variety to the usual greens. They are crunchy, colorful, nutritious and add a little sharpness to a salad that might otherwise be bland or neutral. One of the first vegetables available in spring, radishes make a delicious addition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7bOe4-ji","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.agooddish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}