Great response Nalini now that we have talked of this
if you'll keep it in mind and take pictures if you ever see them in germany or that neck of the woods even supermarket or open air farmers market it would be very interesting to find that two different widely different cultures eat the pods I'll look forward to it... whenever serendipity finds it for you ... its welcome Yes Merry Christmas and a very happy new year to you and yours. Madhuri does not automatically look at all cases here anymore I will forward this thread to her... usha di On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Nabha Meghani <[email protected]> wrote: > well Usha di, > as far as i remember the pods you are talking about we call in maharashtra > "Dingri". Am I correct Madhuri ji? > Mula or rettisch(german) has many forms. we get here long mula about 40 cm > white, round, black and round, then we also get Radieschen, mostly red, > which are much smaller. > All are differently sharp in taste. we also buy seeds and sprouts are > eaten in salad. round rettisch is mostly eaten with bear, one gets thursty > after eating salted rettisch and it is good for the barkeepers pocket. > In Pune my mom used to cut the top of the mula with tiny green leaves and > put it in soil. The plant produces the pods "dingri". > I try that here too but depending upon the weather i get the pods or not. > > I take this opportunity to wish you all merry X'mas and and a very happy > new year. > Nalini > > > Am 24.12.2014 02:56, schrieb Ushadi Micromini: > > Very nice, Surajit > > Pods are what we call Mogri in gujarati and eat them in salads and very > quick saute... > > I found some being grown in the staff housing near the annual car > rally, the pods were inviting.. i took a few pictures and the lady of the > house ca,me out yelling , but turned to smiles when she discovered that all > i wanted was to take pictures... > > > and we get mogri in the vegetable markets were there is a sizable > gujarati , marathi and konkani /, goan population... the sabziwalas make a > bundle > > I had seen a couple of pictures many years ago in a travel magazine where > these pods/mogri-fruits-pods were served in bowls in a bar along with beer > in germany... those were the days when we still had east and west > germany... that's how old the information is ... and i had taken the > picture ot my local grocery store manager to see if he could find me those > pods... > > and he did a year later... and he kept selling them out totally for > about a week or two.. when the local farm ran out of their radish crop... > and we did this for about a couple of more years till we moved > > but have not found a real reference about use in germany ... > some intrepid traveler can perhaps get a picture or two and a story to go > with it... > > > *may be NALINI can * > > usha di > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 9:43 PM, surajit koley < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Sorry for out-of-focus pod pic. >> Thank you >> Regards >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > > > -- Usha di =========== -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
