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Sunday, May 30. 2021

Horseradish

Horseradish is basically Wasabi. It's easy to grow in a garden. It is perennial and, once established, you can take a shovel and chop out a hunk of root with no damage to the plant.


I love fresh horseradish, but I love chili peppers too. Depends on what meat you are eating.


Posted by The Barrister in Gardens, Plants, etc. at 16:57 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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Worth growing because horseradish is easy to make in the quantity you want or need. Store-bought, you only use some, and put it away in the refrigerator only to be tossed out months later. In addition, you don't get any additives and preservatives like you do with commercial brands.
#1 Sixtyville on 2021-05-30 18:01 (Reply)
I made fresh horseradish sauce once. I threw some horseradish roots into the blender, along with some vinegar and salt. After pureeing the horseradish, I removed the lid from the blender and stuck my nose down in there. It was so pungent that it almost stopped my heart. Don't try that at home.
#2 snopercod on 2021-05-30 18:45 (Reply)
I once grew horseradish and made my own. You're right. Freshly ground horseradish is a lethal weapon. I had to resort to wearing a bandanna over my nose when I made it, but boy was it good on pork.
#2.1 RebeccaH on 2021-05-31 11:51 (Reply)
"Horseradish is basically Wasabi."

No it's not, but a common misconception. Real Japanese wasabi is a different plant. But real wasabi is hard to find and expensive, and so horseradish is frequently faked as wasabi and used instead (green dye added).
#3 Jim on 2021-05-30 18:55 (Reply)
Horseradish is the toughest plant in our garden. At one point my wife wanted to get rid of it. She dug it all out but must have missed a root fragment. Next year it was back.

She tried increasing doses of Round-Up. All that did was make it look wilty and a bit brown for a few weeks each time. Near the end of her efforts she was practically pouring straight concentrate on the thing.

She gave up. Horseradish wins. She's back to making her own horseradish condiments, which as snopercod points out out can be extremely powerful.
#4 Fred Z on 2021-05-31 09:11 (Reply)
Horseradish is only indestructible if there is regular rainfall. My horseradish dies pretty quickly if it's not watered regularly in our bone-dry six month Middle Eastern summers. I was surprised because I assumed the fleshy root would give some drought tolerance. Does not seem to be so.
#5 Ben David on 2021-05-31 11:15 (Reply)
lightly on fried sausage or good german sausage links, pure heaven, too much and gack.

Not the emulsified crap we call sausage, the good home style stuff like this

https://winnersmeats.com/products/fresh-casing-sausage?_pos=4&_sid=7fdfb9851&_ss=r

Also if you have a stuff up head, just stick you snoot in the jar or force down a bit, it'll clear you right up, if you don't have a heart attack!
#6 old farmer on 2021-05-31 12:53 (Reply)

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