We're Eatin' Weeds!

I mentioned recently to Jim that all the wild food people keep talking about how wonderful dandelion greens are for the body. They're just packed with nutrition and great flavor. Jim agreed that they were great and said if I picked them, he'd clean them.

Well it's easy to find dandelions at our place! We don't use any kind of chemicals on our lawn, and in this sandy soil, without the weeds, we'd have very little green lawn!

So I roamed around the yard and pulled them out by the roots wherever I found them. It was easy, with all the rain we have, the ground is just soggy in most places, with open standing water in some. So I found a big bowl heaped high with young dandelion plants, and Jim sat down to clean them, cut the young greens off of the roots, and toss out all the other plants that hitchhiked along. Then I headed out back into the woods with a shovel, and came back with young chive plants with the bulbs intact to add flavor to the greens, and some sassafras roots for tea.

So we enjoyed our greens, cooked with thick sliced bacon for flavor and potatoes from our root cellar, with the tiny chive bulbs that taste like a cross between mild garlic and onion. Yummmmmmm. Good stuff. We finished up with an ear of corn each and feel so very healthy!

It's surprising to read all the health results from eating these intense greens, and they actually taste great too, with a little vinegar drizzled on. Amazing. And to think that some people pay a lot of money to poison these yummy flowered plants!