Winter Salad

Sardinians don’t eat a lot of root vegetables, with the exception of radishes (called rape in Italian), which are very popular. I remember my father planting, from seed, what he thought were radishes, only to discover when he pulled them up that they were beetroots. He’d never seen a beetroot before and thought they were quite freaky. I had to explain to him that they were rape rossa, and that you could eat the leaves as well as the roots. Once I showed him how to cook them, h