When radishes meant one notch up!

[gumbud]

i was brought up on spuds; maybe a few carrots ; cow heel soap [you better believe it!] ; special treats from Da would be bananas coated in batter and jam sandwiches too [in batter] and fried. Salads we never had - hardly any fruit at all.

so were dot he radishes come in I hear you mutter - well when we left the city and moved into the country with no grandparents taggin along our diet changed - must have been more money coming in and so roast sunday lunches came in and "radishes" - so I occasionally buy them on $4 a bunch and consume them all in one sitting - a 'comfort food' now.

 

[Gary O']

I could eat a bowl of radishes

oh, yeah

 

[gumbud]

Oh ya my sort of man!! and ya handled that troublemaker at the bar very well recently !

 

[Gary O']

Oh ya my sort of man!! and ya handled that troublemaker at the bar very well recently !

I have a feeling it ain't over just yet

(we'll see how far she wants to take it....and how far the mods let it go)

 

[gumbud]

No no you misunderstand - she can be very discrete!! oh my yes sirree me!!

 

[Aunt Bea]

We used to grow radishes when I was a kid, they were one of the first vegetables to come out of the garden every year.

My mother used to get fancy and carve them into roses,

My grandmother used to make fussy little radish sandwiches with buttered bread, thinly sliced radishes and a shake of salt.

These days I don't give them much thought, sort of like parsnips and salsify.

 

[RadishRose]

 

[gumbud]

wondered when you join the radish group! the rose of all radishes - don't mind if I sink my teeth into you do you??

 

[jujube]

Mmmmmm, love crunching on a radish. And radish greens are delicious, raw or steamed.

 

[gumbud]

I was wondering about them - thought they might be poisonous??

 

[Tommy]

My grandmother used to make fussy little radish sandwiches with buttered bread, thinly sliced radishes and a shake of salt.

Your grandmother had excellent taste. I love radish sandwiches!

 

[Kadee]

Gumbud I don’t know if you know Broken Hill , NSW I was born there and didn’t step out of the place till I was 25
I was bought up on terrible cheap nasty food like fried potato in a big pot of rendered sheep fat that was kept on the old wood stove which was used and re used for all sorts of cooking
We had lamb flap stews as well ....mind you by feeding us 8 kids that sort of rubbish ( that’s my opinion of that sort of food ) we occasionally had a roast shoulder of lamb but only had potatoes with it
I’d never tasted fresh fruit till I moved to South Aust in 1971
it enabled my parents to drink at the club everyday and smoke ..something I’ve never done in favour of “decent food” and lifestyle

 

[gumbud]

Gumbud I don’t know if you know Broken Hill , NSW I was born there and didn’t step out of the place till I was 25
I was bought up on terrible cheap nasty food like fried potato in a big pot of rendered sheep fat that was kept on the old wood stove which was used and re used for all sorts of cooking
We had lamb flap stews as well ....mind you by feeding us 8 kids that sort of rubbish ( that’s my opinion of that sort of food ) we occasionally had a roast shoulder of lamb but only had potatoes with it
I’d never tasted fresh fruit till I moved to South Aust in 1971
it enabled my parents to drink at the club everyday and smoke ..something I’ve never done in favour of “decent food” and lifestyle

HI Kadee never been there but it has some notoriety in OZ heh - closest I got to you was Ballarat in Vic - well wot I like about the ozzies is they like decent food and decent grog! - when i first got to oz they were still serving 750 ml jars of beer anywhere we went and the wine was $2 for a decent bottle that was in the '80's - but alas everything deteriorates - I couldn't believe they had so much sand and blue waters and sharks!!

yes we've seen a lifetime of massive changes some for the good and not so good?

 

[Kadee]

Well on the very odd occasion I scraped up 10cents and got a huge lot of hot chips from the fish n chip shop (was enough for all the kids to have a feed in the park) they tasted so much better than the ones my mother made
and ya know none of us kids were FAT from eating all, that food cooked in rendered sheep fat ..and none of my siblings (5) that are still alive are what you’d call FAT now

 

[gumbud]

well the dieticians here are more down on carbs than fat!

 

[Kadee]

I eat very little carbs I buy one loaf of Bakers Delight ( cape seed ) bread at the end of each month

 

[gumbud]

two vegies or fruits I could never eat as a kid and teen were celery and fried tomatoes - hated the taste but now can devour them in carloads!

 

[Don M.]

I like radishes....fresh from the garden. It seems that most of the grocery store radishes are half spoiled....probably picked and packaged weeks before they hit the stores. They grow quickly in the garden, and I can usually have 3 or 4 plantings during the growing season. On a Summer day, when I'm working outdoors, I will stop every couple of hours, pick a half dozen radishes, and a handful of grape or cherry tomatoes, rinse them off and enjoy a delicious snack, When the garden is in full bloom, I can almost become a vegetarian.