Daikon is a Japanese radish, and you will often find a tiny pile of it grated next to your tempura at a Japanese restaurant. The unspoken instruction is to pick up the whole pile with your chopsticks and to swirl it around in whatever salty and warm sauce came with your tempura. The Japanese are…
the red meat radish, and a winner!
The last few weeks, we’ve had these radishes at the market. We cut them open and show people their tie dye centers, and there is oohing and ahhing, and then they have a taste of one, and there is a “oh, spicey!” and then another bunch is gone from the table, bouncing in a market…
radish salad
I have a couple of things I need to tell you! Nothing huge or substantial, but details I think you will appreciate. It is a gray and windy morning (my favorite, secretly), and it is mother’s day (happy mother’s day!) and this is my 300th post (wahoo!). Rosie has been walking around for the last…
bread with butter, radishes, and salt
I’m lamenting the fact that I have no radishes. I’m hoping that maybe you have some radishes. If you do, will you help me out here? Will you cut a few slices of bread and slather them with a little too much butter? Will you slice up those radishes and spread them on top, and…
roasted vegetables
Well the girls have suckered me into throwing them a dinner party. A party for just them. At some point during the tantrum that was being thrown as I was flinging some local pork product onto galettes before my last salon dinner party, I agreed to this. (Anything! As long as you are sleeping in…
Occasionally I teach workshops, and I have one coming up this fall. Join me and stellar novelist 