Eating Weeds

[ElizabethB]

@Mountain Cat
Thank you
My foray into cooking weeds was a whim with a pleasant outcome.
Occasionally wild garlic chives show up in my yard. A nice surprise.

 

[Lullabelle]

By way of coincidence, I moved a tarpaulin in the garden on Saturday to find this growing underneath:
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I had completely forgotten that this had been planted last year. Doh! I feel a pesto coming on...

I miss wild garlic. I don't think it's made it to Australia. I'll have to check because the conditions could easily suit it.

Ours is coming along nicely

 

[Lullabelle]

Apparently it did make it: Allium vineale - Wikipedia

Seeds are also available but I gather it takes 3 years before you can pick them.

I bought bulbs.

 

[ElizabethB]

@CraigC
I am serious about advice on swamp foraging.
Please share.

 

[CraigC]

@CraigC
I am serious about advice on swamp foraging.
Please share.

I'm sure there are many plants in the swamps where you live, maybe even some of the same we have in the Everglades. My suggestion would be to learn from an experience forager familiar with your area. Our native apple snails are edible, but I have no idea if any of the snails in your area are. Also it has been many years since I have foraged and I probably would have trouble identifying some of the plants.

 

[Sticky Fingers]

In the 1960's my mother made dandelion salad, this was anything you would put in a salad plus a good handful of green dandelion leaves. Chop this finely and I mean fine. put all into a glass bowl, add enough malt vinegar to cover add one tablespoon sugar, leave to stand for an hour. Serve with Spam or corn beef (times were hard then)

 

[Morning Glory]

Chop this finely and I mean fine. put all into a glass bowl, add enough malt vinegar to cover add one tablespoon sugar, leave to stand for an hour.

This reminds me so much of a salad my Dad used to make - he came from Wiltshire and his Mum used to make it. Dandelions with lettuce all chopped up with malt vinegar and sugar - he also added a little cream off the top of the milk.

 

[Sticky Fingers]

My Mother never put cream in it maybe different in Cheltenham