Comments on: Spring greens: bamboo shoots. http://crabappleherbs.com/blog/2008/05/15/spring-greens-bamboo-shoots/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:37:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: tammy http://crabappleherbs.com/blog/2008/05/15/spring-greens-bamboo-shoots/#comment-23908 tammy Fri, 16 May 2008 00:38:41 +0000 http://crabappleherbs.com/blog/2008/05/15/spring-greens-bamboo-shoots/#comment-23908 Very cool. I was always wondering how to make indian-style pickles. By the way, do you have any thoughts about how herbalists living in major urban centers can access fresh herbs in the way you do? Very cool. I was always wondering how to make indian-style pickles.
By the way, do you have any thoughts about how herbalists living in major urban centers can access fresh herbs in the way you do?

]]> By: crabappleherbs http://crabappleherbs.com/blog/2008/05/15/spring-greens-bamboo-shoots/#comment-23968 crabappleherbs Fri, 16 May 2008 14:21:09 +0000 http://crabappleherbs.com/blog/2008/05/15/spring-greens-bamboo-shoots/#comment-23968 Thanks, Tammy. Well, if I was living in a major city, I would probably scout out all the little-used parks, backyards and abandoned lots for wild plants (keeping in mind contamination levels, of course). I'd also try to make friends with farmers at the farmers' markets who might be able to bring me herbs. If you find the right person, you could have them bring you baskets of weeds. Thanks, Tammy.

Well, if I was living in a major city, I would probably scout out all the little-used parks, backyards and abandoned lots for wild plants (keeping in mind contamination levels, of course).

I’d also try to make friends with farmers at the farmers’ markets who might be able to bring me herbs. If you find the right person, you could have them bring you baskets of weeds.

]]> By: Michelle P http://crabappleherbs.com/blog/2008/05/15/spring-greens-bamboo-shoots/#comment-28038 Michelle P Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:44:55 +0000 http://crabappleherbs.com/blog/2008/05/15/spring-greens-bamboo-shoots/#comment-28038 Is there any variety of bamboo that is not edible? We just transplanted some this spring that college girl brought home from a creek bed in her college town. It is shooting now. I do not know the variety...have to research that. We don't have enough to make pickles & I wouldn't collect shoots from the original patch as it is close to a heavy traveled roadway. the pickled bamboo shoot recipe sure sounds tasty. Is there any variety of bamboo that is not edible?
We just transplanted some this spring that college girl brought home from
a creek bed in her college town. It is shooting now.
I do not know the variety…have to research that.
We don’t have enough to make pickles & I wouldn’t collect shoots from
the original patch as it is close to a heavy traveled roadway.
the pickled bamboo shoot recipe sure sounds tasty.

]]> By: crabappleherbs http://crabappleherbs.com/blog/2008/05/15/spring-greens-bamboo-shoots/#comment-29324 crabappleherbs Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:01:47 +0000 http://crabappleherbs.com/blog/2008/05/15/spring-greens-bamboo-shoots/#comment-29324 Hi Michelle. I am by no means I bamboo expert, but as far as I understand it, most varieties of bamboo are edible, if you boil them in a couple of changes of water -- until there's no more bitterness. I have seen specific warnings about giant bamboo having toxins in its shoots, but I think boiling in several changes of water gets rid of these. (Our bamboo is "yellow groove" bamboo, and the shoots are not bitter at all.) Hi Michelle.

I am by no means I bamboo expert, but as far as I understand it, most varieties of bamboo are edible, if you boil them in a couple of changes of water — until there’s no more bitterness. I have seen specific warnings about giant bamboo having toxins in its shoots, but I think boiling in several changes of water gets rid of these.

(Our bamboo is “yellow groove” bamboo, and the shoots are not bitter at all.)

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