April 11, 2008 at 5:01 pm
· Filed under Bittercress, Chickweed, Creasy Greens (Winter Cress), Dandelion, Local food, Sheep Sorrel, Violet, Wild food
Why mow it when you can eat it?
Today I wandered around our yard with a basket and came back with a salad.
It had chickweed greens and flowers, dandelion greens, bittercress greens and flowers, creasy greens, violet leaves, and sorrel in it. Chickweed and violet are mild and moist, peppergrass and creasy greens are spicy with a hint of bitterness, dandelion leaves (before the flowers bloom) are pleasantly bitter, and sorrel is distinctly sour.
The boy thought it was too many flavors in one salad, but to me it just tasted like today: riotous spring!
Hint: If you want to encourage more edible (and medicinal) weeds in your yard, dig up a bit here and there. Lots of tasty plants like to grow on disturbed ground.
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November 2, 2007 at 9:53 pm
· Filed under All Heal, Aster, Black Walnut, Blackberry, Burdock, Catnip, Celandine, Chickweed, Chicory, Dandelion, Deadnettle, Goldenrod, Ground Ivy, Herbal Blog Party, Herbs, Hollyhock, Lobelia, Mallow, Moth Mullein, Peppercress, Plantain, Pokeweed, Queen Anne's Lace, Red Clover, Scarlet Pimpernel, Sheep Sorrel, Sow Thistle, Strawberry, Thistle, Vervain, Violet, Wood Sorrel, Yarrow, Yellow Dock
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May 22, 2007 at 4:27 pm
· Filed under Dandelion, Recipes
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May 19, 2007 at 10:29 pm
· Filed under Dandelion, Recipes
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May 10, 2007 at 11:02 am
· Filed under Dandelion
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May 6, 2007 at 3:33 pm
· Filed under Dandelion
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