Roasted Radishes with Brown Butter and Lemon #recipe #giveaway from Molly MacRae

 

Peg and Leslie K recently posted simple recipes for delicious peas and green beans. Here’s your third simple-to-prepare vegetable recipe for the new year – roasted radishes. Not a fan of raw radishes? A roasted radish is completely different. The hot oven transforms them from a spicy addition to salads to mellow, sweet, almost meaty side dish. This is also a great way to use up the extra radishes if you bought a bunch or a bag and only needed a few. I seasoned this batch with salt, brown butter, and lemon, but next time I might go wilder with a sprinkling garlic, coriander, or red pepper flakes, or maybe with a bit of thyme, rosemary, or sage.

Roasted Radishes with Brown Butter and Lemon

Ingredients

1 bunch radishes (about 3/4 pound), stem ends and tails trimmed, cut in half stem to tail

1 tablespoon olive oil, plus more for baking sheet

2 tablespoons unsalted butter

1 teaspoon lemon juice

Kosher salt

Directions

Heat oven to 450 degrees F. Brush a rimmed baking sheet with olive oil.

In a medium bowl, toss halved radishes with 1 tablespoon olive oil. Place radishes, cut side down, on prepared baking sheet. Sprinkle lightly with kosher salt. Roast until radishes are crisp-tender and cut sides begin to brown, 15-20 minutes.

While radishes roast, melt butter in a medium, heavy skillet over medium-high heat. Add a pinch of kosher salt and cook until the butter browns, swirling skillet frequently to keep butter solids from burning, about 3 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in lemon juice.

Transfer roasted radishes to skillet with butter and lemon. Toss to coat. Sprinkle with more kosher salt if desired.

 

It's time for a giveaway from Margaret Welch!

Along with several other authors, Margaret Welch (aka Molly MacRae) writes books in the Whistle Stop Café mystery series. Margaret’s most recent title is Wait Till the Sun Shines. Read on for your chance to win a copy!

Janet Shaw finds an intriguing—and lovely—mystery in an old trunk full of 1940s-era clothes and other artifacts recently donated to the Dennison Depot Museum. As she and her friend, Debbie Albright, sort through the clothes and dream up plans for a fashion show to be held at the museum, they come across a gorgeous wedding dress hidden in the false bottom of the trunk. Janet can’t help but wonder about the story behind the dress and its original owner. When she finds cryptic notes stashed in a concealed pocket of the dress, she's even more determined to discover its story. As Janet investigates, she uncovers unexpected answers . . . and long-lost secrets.

Meanwhile, another mystery pops up in snow-covered Dennison. Some kind soul is leaving handmade items around town with notes saying they’re for whoever needs or wants them. Will Janet reveal the giver’s identity, or allow them to remain anonymous in their random acts of kindness?

Readers: What would you like to find in the bottom of a mysterious trunk? 

Leave your answer in a comment below. The winner of a copy of Wait Till the Sun Shines will be chosen at random and announced 1/14/25.

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Coming in June 2025!

The Boston Globe says Molly MacRae writes “murder with a dose of drollery.” She’s the author of the award-winning, national bestselling Haunted Yarn Shop Mysteries and the Highland Bookshop Mysteries. As Margaret Welch, she writes books for Annie’s Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and she’s a winner of the Sherwood Anderson Award for Short Fiction. Visit Molly on Facebook and Pinterest and connect with her on Instagram or Bluesky.