Radish Surprise

While cleaning out my fridge I found I had a bunch of radishes I hadn't been able to find a use for.

I've never cooked with radishes before, and I don't think I've eaten them before either.

Hmm, they're nicely bite sized. I'm going to make appetizers out of them. Sort of like the buttercheese mushrooms, but with radishes. And I have panko now!

I started buying cheese in blocks because giant chunks of cheese are more fun than slices. I can slice them to little cheese wedges and drop them over the radishes.

Adding a line or two of olive oil.

Salt and pepper.

Panko!

And some more oil. I want it to be some kind of salad-appetizer hybrid and I don't want it to stick to the pan.

Now let's see how this fries!

I let the radishes sit in the oil for too long. They kind of soaked in the oil and got oily and got burnt cheese on them. The panko kind of dissolved into the cheese.

I used a paper towel to blot out all the oil.

And in the end, taking out the bits with burnt cheese on them, we have this!

Yeah, that's not very much. Um, they taste like, oily radishes, I guess? I haven't had radishes before so I can't say. The cheese didn't really stay on, so it's like fried oily radishes with pepper.

Buttercheese Mushrooms

This is another older recipe. I made it when I wanted a snack and had a few mushrooms laying about.

I'm beginning to advocate using butter or butter spread instead of oil for everything. Here though, I wanted the mushrooms to be buttery.

Not all of the mushrooms got enough butter, so I added some more.

I want my mushrooms to be cheesy as well as buttery.

Now this is when it gets weird. The butter and cheese melt together into some kind of sauce? I'm going to call it buttercheese. It could use some salt and pepper.

I think that's good.

The buttercheese mushrooms are served with the buttercheese as a sauce. They turned out pretty good.

Soda Potato Chips

This week's theme is single-vegetable snacks!


This recipe is from a few months ago. It turned out so badly I didn't get around to posting it. And since this is a blog for cooking disasters, that means it turned out BAAAAAAAD.

I had potatoes that were going to go bad and I had to find a use for them.

I've done (or badly tried to make) crispy things before, so I thought, why not make potato chips?

With a soda-flavored batter.

You can see how this will end.

So I start on the batter, with flour and eggs.

Adding in some salt and pepper.

Mixed together.

 Now comes the soda.

Aaaaaaand I mix it in and it looks like someone really sick drank a bunch of soda and then threw it up.

It's a little thinner than I was hoping, but too late to turn back now. Here come the potato slices.

The batter didn't stick. But it was too late to turn back, so I dump it into a frying pan...

And the result is predictable.

Yeah. Pink dough and raw potato.

These were so bad I couldn't eat them. The "batter" didn't taste like soda and the potatoes were still raw-tasting.

I had so many slices I couldn't just throw them out. I decided to try adding cheese with the idea cheese makes anything edible.

I think broiling is good for melting cheese, but don't quote me on that.

With cheese they were a little better but in the end I think it would have been better to just eat the cheese and throw out the potatoes and nasty batter.