Comments on: Eat your lawn: wild greens salad.

By: Candy

Candy — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:14:46 +0000

I just got back from home (OAK HILL, WV) and yes I did bring me back some young poke salad and I am boiling it now as I write. I got some turkey bacon, (can’t eat pork) and I’m gonna saute it with some fresh green onions and top it with a couple of boil eggs, and a couple slices of fresh tomatoes. Um-umm, now that’s some good eat’n.

By: crabappleherbs

crabappleherbs — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:49:39 +0000

Hi Shawna. I couldn’t find your “weeds” post. But thanks for visiting — it’s always exciting to hear of another WV blogger…

By: TIE-DYED DOULA

TIE-DYED DOULA — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:33:44 +0000

I am also from the Wild and Wonderful-I just did a post entitled “WEEDS”. it is comparing dandelions to birth. Check it out. My reverence for weeds is golden!
Shine On!!
Shawna

By: crabappleherbs

crabappleherbs — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:17:26 +0000

Hank — Isn’t it tasty?

Jim — I eat poke sallet in the spring, boiled in 2 changes of water like I was taught. I wouldn’t eat it raw. And I wouldn’t eat it in quantity without boiling it.

Sally — Oh, yes, purslane is wonderful. I haven’t had any come up in my garden yet this year. I’m waiting…

Emma — You’re welcome! Sounds like a tasty salad.

Finspot — We don’t have the west-coast miner’s lettuce here, but we do have spring beauties (a relative). They’re kind of tiny for salad, though.

AnneTanne — I’m glad you were inspired! And thanks!

By: AnneTanne

AnneTanne — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:04:16 +0000

Thank you for this post, it inspired me to write a post about a spring greens salad too, last friday.
Hope it brings some Belgian visitors to your excellent blog/site!

By: Finspot

Finspot — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:59:36 +0000

The well-named miner’s lettuce, an early bloomer, was our go-to source of wild greens when we lived off the grid in Oregon. That plant got many a goldpanner through the last of the cold and damp season.

By: Emma

Emma — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:33:10 +0000

After your last post, and the idea of paying close attention to a herb, I took your advice. It so happened that the small patch of sun in our tiny yard was pointing me to some dandelions, so this was the herb! I loved the sweet nutty flavour, and made salad for lunch with beetroot and almonds.

Not being able to get the dandelions from my head, I set about weaving them into my afternoons artwork, and made a post about them (and other things) on my website. http://www.anotherweather.org. Thank you for the inspiration and the reminder to pay close attention.

By: Sally

Sally — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:41:46 +0000

Purslane is my absolute *favorite-ist* weed! I love it raw or pickled.

By: Jim K

Jim K — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:56:30 +0000

What is you opinion on eating Indian Poke /Poke weed? My wife, a fellow West Virginian (near Clendenin) and her mother swear by fresh poke every spring (using only the youngest shoots and leaves.We only eat it boiled or fried/wilted. Some say it needs to be boiled in multiple changes of water. Others say not at all and a few people I know seem to have “sallet,” which means cooked greens, confused with “salad” and eat it raw. I’ve never found a good consensus, but our back hill is run over in poke and dock and we tend to eat it like a wilted green (usually with a good balsamic vinegar).

By: Hank

Hank — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:50:53 +0000

I used to make the very same salad in Virginia; I called it my “back yard” salad. I especially like the violet leaves, which you don’t really see out here in the West.