RecipeMuncher

Today, I finally moved out of Sweden. Moved all my stuff (well, most of it) across the bridge into my new little Copenhagen flat. Not too far, I know, but this is a completely new experience for me. New life and new recipeeees

Sweden had its downsides, just as any other city. The worst was that the alcohol was (is) state-owned. You can only get over-priced beers or wines only a few hours per day in special alcohol stores (called System Bolaget) that were, on purpose, closed on weekends! (Ok, open on Saturdays 10:00 - 12:00 - nightmare, some people barely get out of bed)…

Therefore, even buying a simple harmless cooking! ingredient such as rice wine was NOT acceptable And System Bolaget didn’t have it anywayyyy HOW on Earth am I supposed to cook Chinese food? This was a year round dilemma and my craving for good home-made Chinese was immense. So, once, finally on my B-day, I got 2 bottles of this goodness. And, oh boy, did I go nuts for <a href=”http:…

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First Thursday challenge at Thursday Night Smackdown: Use a fruit or vegetable that we’ve never worked with before.

Hmm, I guess this means that the said fruit or vegetable must be “exotic”. So, our very, very, ultra-very exotic vegetable is… [drumroll]… RADISH!

Well, technically, we’ve worked with radish, but of the Asian daikon variety. We’ve never even thought of buying the cutesy red ones before; we would think, “What can we use those for?”

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When we were installing our garden bed last year, the man who helped us (i.e., the man who installed the garden bed) told us that we can now grow our own radishes. Radish, supposedly, is very easy to grow and he himself grew up on radishes.

I was left baffled, because our only usual use for daikon was in <a href=”http://www.eatingclubvancouver….