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Default I tried another roasted root veggie

Cheryl wrote:

> In my fridge I had a bag of radishes that needed to be used so I thought
> that since they are root veggies they could be good roasted. I love raw
> radishes in salad but I didn't have all of the salad fixins to make one so
> I roasted the radishes in OO along with some potato chucks, skin on. I
> was going to have the veggies along with the leftover chicken from
> yesterday but the veggies filled me up.
>
> The roasted radishes were more like carrots in that they take a while to
> get soft. The taste isn't anything like eating the raw. I don't think
> I'll cook them again that way, but they weren't completely inedible.


In terms of cooking, I think of a radish as a kind of watery turnip. I
haven't found a cooking method for them which I consider GOOD, but I found
that if you split them and then pan-cook them cut-side-down in clarified
butter until the cut edge caramelizes, they're not too offensive.

Bob