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Check out the most recent post on Salt and Stone Poetry for a less than enthralled take on dandelion greens.
Here's my take on eating the weeds -
I eat Chenopodium album (lamb's quarters) fairly regularly, simply because I've got a lot of it reseeding in the driveway of my rented garden every year. I use it in soups instead of Spinach (which is unreliable here in Adelaide) and find it quite palatable. Early in the growing season, I pull the seedlings en masse at a height of about 10cm - just cut off the roots and rinse the tops - who needs fancy "micro-greens"? Later in the season when I'm reduced to a few larger plants I use them as a cut and come again green vegetable, taking off the tender tips at each harvest. Finally, as the plants mature I pick off the young flowering tips which make a tender sauteed vegetable dish, kind of like really tiny cauliflower florets. After I've picked what I want I just let the last few plants go to seed and next years crop is all set. Then as a bonus, I use the dry stalks of the dead mature plants as light weight garden stakes for climbing peas and beans.
Mind you, you can keep the dandelions, I find them much too bitter. Cream of nettle soup is good, but it's not easy to find a stand of nettles in my highly urban area. If I ever get a chance to have a bigger garden than the one I currently have, I might try to give the weeds I like to eat an area of their own where I can harvest a bit more variety and be guaranteed that the plants haven't been doused with any nasty agricultural chemicals.
Ciao, Kaelkitty.
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