Steamed radishes with amaranth, cottage cheese and parsley foam
Originally I wanted to cook up a mushroom called Morel, but as often happens, the few weeks that I was looking for them in the forests around Bratislava and Nove Zamky, my mushroom gathering capabilities and luck, I just had a nice walk around. Sh*tty mushrooms, as I say. I gave up. It was a challenge, then I remembered my friend who I laughed at me every time we went for a” mushroom hunt”, he always said that I’m so blind that I will not find a mushroom, even when I step on it. Well, what now, I complained on Saturday to my mother that I hiked & walked kilometers of the woods near Danube and nothing. While mushroom pickers reported first ones in early March. Then she told me that in the spring instead of mushrooms my great-grandmother prepared steamed radish. In this period we had small ground greenhouses in the garden where we grew red radishes and spring onions very early in the spring. And those are the spring flavors that I’ve …