First harvest

Yesterday was really fun out in the garden. After all the hard work I was able to make a mini harvest. I harvested enough rhubarb for a crisp. Of couse I harvested radishes. I always plant radishes to aerate the soil, then they usually get put out in the compost pile. My family is not very keen on them. I will eat them sliced thin with bread and butter and salt and pepper. This time I decided to cook them and see what would happen. Some searching on the net showed me that steaming is a good method for cooking so I tried the following recipe:

Steamed Radishes

1 pound radishes with tops and roots removed

2 TBS butter

1/4 cup brown sugar

Herbs such as parsely, dill, mint, thyme, rosemary-experiment with what you have ready.

Steam radishes in salted water in covered saucepan until fork tender. Drain water, stir in butter brown sugar and herbs. I bet this would also taste good with cinnamon or cloves (or both!) Since the radishes change color to a light pink when steamed, my kids didn't identify them right away as radishes. Evidently the greens can also be eaten, but I'm not up to that yet. I do love beet greens, though and I have raided the plants. I first cooked up the thinnings and now I have moved on to the other beets. I figure as long as I don't pick them too clean----.