I took the Bisousette, who was a big hit with the farmers once she admitted that she liked to play in the dirt. We went here:
I picked up sugar snap peas, radishes, a head of butter lettuce, and scallions. One of my goals is to try a new veggie each week, one I've not really tried before. This week was radishes. I know, I've had radishes. Plasticky radishes that come with salad mix or in a salad buffet. I've never actually bought any and ate them fresh. So I got a little bunch, washed one, chopped a slice, and, woah. Kinda bitter. Peppery. Exactly what you would think of when you think of a stereotypical stern mom saying "eat your vegetables!" Not my cup of tea- apparently the French dip them in salt and bite in to them, like an apple. A bitter, peppery, salty apple. Or have them sliced with butter and salt on bread. Must be lots of butter.
Anyway, I sliced one into small slivers and added it to my salad. The salad was last week's head of romaine (which I washed, cut, then refrigerated in a bowl with a piece of paper towel and covered with saran wrap.), some corn cooked on the cob (shuck your ear, wash it, salt it, wrap it in a paper towel, mircowave for 3-4 minutes, cut kernals off the ear if desired, or rub in butter and eat - it is perfectly yummy), feta cheese, and my own salad dressing mix made of two parts olive oil, one part balsamic vinegar, some sliced garlic scapes (leftover from last week's run to the farmer's market), salt and pepper. Jamie Oliver says 3 to 1 oil to vinegar in your own salad dressing, but I find that to be too oily.
With the dressing and the cheese and whatnot, I hardly tasted the radishes, and it was good.
Anyone have an awesome homemade salad dressing recipe to share? I've started making my own, and I don't want to go back, especially since you have to be super careful with the store bought salad dressings or you end up with vegetable oil and high fructose corn syrup concoction. Plus, it's probably cheaper to make your own, all told.
I'm wondering what to do with the scallions. Slice into omelets? Make a oniony cornbread? Anyone love scallions and have a wonderful idea for them? I still have some garlic scapes to cut up, and I think that would make a mighty fine cornbread with the scallions...
