Radicchio

Anyone out there had this? Loaded with magnesium and potassium....that's great. However, it is bitter, bitter, bitter. That sentence there at the beginning of the page I linked to..."mildly bitter"....that is a tad deceiving. Have you ever had a bitter cucumber? That is what the taste reminded me of.

I had this great salad all laid out. This was going to be a new one for us, never having eaten it before. Radicchio, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, green onions....had my kids chopping all the veggies while I made the chicken to accompany my grand veggie delight. The salad then had this great creamy dressing to go with it....some mayo, some capers, some dill, some red wine vinegar, olive oil....it was quite tasty. Not tasty enuf to mellow out the radicchio, tho. Even my little guy, who eats anything, was not having it. He was eating all the capers out of the dressing(for which I am surprised I had enuf to add to it because he kept reaching his little mitts onto the cutting board to grab all the capers!)

Have you guys eaten this? Is it supposed to be way bitter? I still have one head left. The kids are frightened that I will attempt to use it again. Any ideas? Maybe a tried and true recipe that you keep going back to? Help.....