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Radish

Radishes, crispy and spicy, offer peppery notes to both raw and cooked dishes. These root vegetables can be shaved thinly and served raw or pickled, or they can be chopped coarsely and roasted or braised. Here you will find all of my radish recipes, including a recipe featuring soba noodles and pickled radish as well as a refreshing watermelon radish salad.

A bowl filled with a spring fattoush salad with arugula, radishes, snap peas, and cucumbers.

Spring Fattoush Salad

Watermelon radish salad with goat cheese, orange, and walnuts.

Watermelon Radish, Orange & Goat Cheese Salad

A spring salad in a bowl: greens, radishes, carrots, feta, and walnuts.

All-Purpose Lemon Vinaigrette

A bowl of spring wheat berry salad.

Spring Wheat Berry Salad

Sweet potato quesadillas on a board.

Sweet Potato Quesadillas with Radish Salsa

This summer vegetable salad comes together in no time—as the shallots macerate in the vinegar for the dressing, you can prep everything else: slice the radishes, turnips, scallions, etc. With a hunk of bread on the side, the meal is complete. // alexandracooks.com

10-Minute Meal: Greens + Tuna + Shallot Vinaigrette

CSA Weeks 1 & 2: Essential Recipes for Greens + Radish (or Turnip) Tartines with Anchovy Butter

CSA Week 3: Chatting Strategy with Margaret Roach + Storing Basil | Salted Cucumbers | Sugar Snap Pea Salad

A simple dressing of olive oil and freshly squeezed lemon juice with just a pinch of crushed red pepper flakes works best in this quinoa salad, both complementing quinoa's flavors while not oversaturating its delicate texture. // alexandracooks.com

Quinoa with Walnuts, Radishes & Spring Onions

What to do with those Radishes …

You will relish this endive and fava tartine—ricotta, pea shoots, radishes, and herbs—each spring-filled bite assuring you that you can endure a few more weeks of winter. This is the tartine to make when you’ve had your fill of comfort foods—of soups and stews and roasts and braises—and you long for something fresh and bright. // alexandracooks.com

Bread Toast Crumbs { The Trailer Part II: Toast } + Endive & Fava Salad Tartine with Herbed Ricotta

This recipe for almond-sesame soba noodles with quick-pickled vegetables is really fun and super easy. It's also a good one to rely on in the summer — it's so refreshing — and, if you subscribe to a CSA or tend a prolific garden, it makes great use of all of those carrots, cucumbers, and radishes you may find yourself up to your eyeballs in. // alexandracooks.com

Almond-Sesame Soba Noodles with Quick-Pickled Vegetables

A selection of pantry recipes to make right now.

A quart container filled with cooked chickpeas.

A pan of just-baked penne alla vodka.

This roasted tomato soup has been made completely to taste. If you start with a base of slow roasted tomatoes, onions, garlic and shallots, I assure you your soup will be a success. Served with a few shavings of Parmigiano Reggiano and a piece of crusty bread, it makes a wonderful late summer meal. // alexandracooks.com

This apple, cheddar, mustard sandwich is easy to whip up, satisfying, and will not last long on any plate. // alexandracooks.com

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