oldlady4oldman
Tacoma, WA
98, joined Jun. 2012
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Well, , here are some TIPS:
1. Radishes taste COMPLETELY DIFFERENT when you COOK them. They taste like baby turnips.
2. For those of you who only put a couple sliced radishes into the salad for color, COOK the rest of the bunch and serve with butter, dont throw away the rest of the bunch of radishes.
3. Radish tops, especially with cooked bacon and chopped onion are a tasty, healthy green veggie.
4. In a mad max SHTF scenario, NOTHING ELSE you can plant will give you a harvest as quickly(28 days) as fast as radishes, to eat cooked, with their greens, while you wait the 6 weeks or two months for OTHER vegetables you planted to mature! Gardens are good, but you don't want to starve waiting for the harvest!
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nothingisreal
Harrison, MI
62, joined Jul. 2013
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Could always make Horseradish.
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oldlady4oldman
Tacoma, WA
98, joined Jun. 2012
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Could always make Horseradish.
I was referring to red, mild radishes. You cannot "make horseradish" from red, salad radishes.
Horseradish is a KIND of radish, not a recipe.
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lo_stress
Redwood Falls, MN
51, joined Dec. 2010
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The tender baby greens are quite tasty when included in a fresh salad or even topped on a hamburger. Older greens that are not overly mature are excellent when cooked like spinach and yes, definitely include bacon and either chopped onions, shallots, or freshly harvested scallions.
Let some plants bolt and harvest immature green seed pods for stir-fry meals. Pods have a wonderful peppery flavor and crunchy texture. Let seed pods mature and then harvest the seeds. They can be used in foods whole, cracked, or crushed. Use cracked or crushed seeds in homemade multi-grain bread. Seeds can also be pressed to extract oil for cooking, but a lot of seeds would have to be harvested and a home oil press would have to be acquired (a critical piece of equipment in a SHTF scenario).
Finely chop radishes in the food processor and use as a topping on grilled hamburgers, brats, and wieners. Very good flavor combinations all.
During the 1930s Depression era my grandmother would occasionally provide meals for her family consisting of radish sandwiches with meatless soup. Sometimes that was all they had to eat but it was nutritiously good, hearty fare just the same. My grandfather loved those radish sandwiches. I have memories of him making one for me in the old farm kitchen when I was a very small child, me on tip-toes straining to get my eyes to counter height to watch what he was doing, then his huge calloused hands gently placing that big sandwich into my little hands so he could get a glass of ice cold milk for me from the rickety old Norge refrigerator in the pantry. He passed away that summer. Anyway, the sandwich is very simple and consists of radish slices with a dash of salt and pepper inside buttered (not margarined!) thick slices of homemade whole wheat bread that are still warm from the oven. It is a true delight. To keep the memories alive I make these sandwiches every year when the first radishes are harvested from the garden, although I admit to being a bit more partial to radish sandwiches that include a few slices of homemade venison summer sausage.
Grandpa's favorite radishes were the German Giant and the Black Spanish Round. I still grow those varieties every year along with others including my favorite, the classic Cherry Belle.
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xashax
Union, NH
45, joined May. 2009
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I actually love raw radishes and will eat them just plucked from the stems with some garlic salt. Weren't radishes what were being purloined from Rumpelstiltskin's garden in that fairy tale? Then he caught them and they had to guess his name or he would take their first born child? 
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tonieomatic
North Myrtle Beach, SC
54, joined Oct. 2013
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u can use them in Asian dishes
u can use them as a garnish make it fancy
u can make home made horse radish or use it in mayo 
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