Nice, Surajit
dont eat the seeds these are surely sold for growing radishes so may have been coated/treated with many chemicals to prevent sprouting on their own and anti-fungal and anti-helmenthic meds and god only knows what else.. it does not seem to be a highly controlled/inspected affair EATING the seedpods is a different story... if i find some this winter i'll post the pictures in this thread usha di On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 9:34 PM, surajit koley < [email protected]> wrote: > This is the picture of seeds of radish. I can't say if it is red or white > variety. I haven't seen any other than the red or white or reddish-white. > Both red and white are of same size. We eat only the root and leaves. I do > not have any story on seeds, except that I bought a few today. To me radish > leaves are tasy SHAK/SHAG (leafy veg.). > In our childhood we used to eat GOTA-SEDDHO > <http://whiffofspice.blogspot.in/2013/02/saraswati-puja-and-nostalgic-gota.html> > during Saraswati Puja. It was not that tasty but novel surely.. in the > sense that we did not eat GOTA-SEDDHO during any other time of the year. > Radish played an important part in GOTA-SEDDHO! Surely not all vegetables > were cooked whole, ie. without chopping them, as have been described in the > websites. > > Thank you > Regards > surajit > > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Ushadi Micromini < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> =========== >> > > -- Usha di =========== -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. 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