July 24, 2008
Failed food experiments
So far, I have ruined and wasted some of my CSA food. I'm trying to be better. But first I must share the failures:
Strawberry Mint Vinaigrette (see last post for recipe; to lazy to find and link)
The strawberry-balsmic vinegar was AMAZING! I cup balsamic vinegar to 1 1/2 cups strawberries. Blend, let sit 1 hour, strain. The pulp was so good that I almost saved it to put over ice cream or in yogurt.
Then I ruined it by making the mint vinagrette. It wasn't terrible over salad, just a little too mint-y. It WAS, however, pretty bad as a marinade for chicken. Just don't do it.
But the fun one...
How to Make Radish Farts:
I keep getting more radishes than I can eat. So I was trying to come up with innovative things to do with them. I remembered that my mom used to slice cucumbers and keep them in the fridge in a solution of white vinegar, water, and red onion. Yummy.
I decided to try a similar thing with the radishes. I used apple cider vinegar (thought it would be tastier) and the chives from my box.
2 days later, I opened the fridge and noticed a distinct farty smell. Investigation revealed the radishes as the cause. I removed them and thought "well, kimchee smells horrible when you first open it, but is tasty, so maybe that's true of the radishes"
Nope.
I ate a couple - first vinegar taste, then strong radish taste, then fart taste. The fart taste didn't fully develop until AFTER I swallowed, which meant that for a few hours, I also had farty burps.
Ick, ick, ick. Those things went in the trash as soon as I could get them safely out of the kitchen.
Radishes continue to arrive in my weekly boxes, so if anyone has non-farty recipes for them, I'd be delighted to have them.