Wild Miner’s Lettuce, Radish Tops, and Radish Salad

Radish Salad

I’m really trying to use the spring greens and get to like them so I wanted to do something with them again this week.  After having to leave town early last week and our large salad going bad before we got home I was looking for something a bit smaller in volume this time around.  I liked the Miner’s Lettuce we had last week and found some at the wild foraged booth that was both larger and better looking than the lettuce at the booth I bought it at last week. When  I tried to buy a handful the guy let me know they only sell it by the 1/3 of a lb (I thought it was just priced that way) so he doubled the amount and on I went. 

In the end I decided to go with radishes as my counterpart to this salad.  Not only could I get a bi of crunch into my salad with a single purchase I could also add a handful of a differnet green into the salad. Saving me money, not making a huge salad, and not throwing away the radish tops. Sounded like a winner to me. Randomly the sous chef and I choose the red radishes over the purple ones which turned out to be a bit milder too. 

See! Red radish means mild. And they look like UFOs.

When I got home I ate a piece of the radish greens and a bit later my stomach felt a little upset.  I didn’t think it should be caused by the radish greens but I went and asked the internet and it told me I was making it up. But it also mentioned most people don’t eat radish greens because they don’t taste good.  So we were a bit worried I may have ruined some fine Miner’s lettuce (which I ended up rinsing really well and drying with a towel when my roommate warned me if it was foraged we should clean it really well for dog pee… I think the folks selling it cleaned it well enough but I did it all over again!). 

After all of that the salad was good and fine. It was nice and mild and went well with the French Tomato Vingerette salad dressing I bought to try and ween myself off of fully body French dressing.