what wild plant are you eating now

[bookwormom]

I just picked a bucket of lambs quarters, aside from oxalis to spice up a a salad that is it in my proximity right now. going to have creamed greens for dinner.

[Holly]

The Elder is in flower now. Im making wine and cordial, and maybe some fritters. Im just waiting for the sorrel to appear, but Im not very experienced with picking wild food, so thats about it that Im happy to id on my own at this time of year. Oh, and wild garlic.

[bookwormom]

No elder around my place that is blooming. but I love elder blossom fritters, elder blossom lemonade.

[Penny_Plinker]

Right now...August.... the elderberries are ripe. We gathered quite a few. Easy to pick, but PITA to get them off the stems. But, what the heck, they're free. I canned 2 quarts of juice, will make jelly out of it later when there's some ripe crabapples to add with it.

Look for them in low elevations.... along field edge near a creek is ideal.

Penny

[Penny_Plinker]

Have never heard of eating the blossoms.... have to try that next year.

Penny

[idris]

Was getting 'spring greens' from the nettle patch down the back lane near the Community Hall [ 1908] , but some machine-head ran it down with a ride-on. Steam the greens along with whatever, or pop them into the pot for a soup. Dried nettle is a tasty something to chew on, and the dried leaf can be kept to pop into the pot when nothing green grows. This can also be done with other wild greens: dandelion, dock, whatever. One can also make a kimchee from them, same way as for korean kimchee, which is made from brassica leaf. chili, ginger, salt, and water. Nettle makes a drink, and the fibre is first class.

[bookwormom]

Luckily I found a good little patch of nettles among the raspberries. There is nothing green in the garden, except 1 (one) parsley plant, that is all that sprouted and survived. so tomorrow we shall have nettle soup, flavored with a sprig of parsley. I sowed fall lettuce three times in three places and one place it came up but has since dissappeared. The second I planted in a coldframe and our Great Pyrenees dog wallowed in it, I think there is one little plant, may it grow and thrive. two days ago I planted some more in the greenhouse. Now I have no more seed. I am looking foreward to nettle soup.

[DM]

Mushrooms, i just put a bunch of them in the freezer...

DM

[bookwormom]

Mushrooms!!!what kind DM? with this drought I did not expect any, and I have not seen the chanterelles that usually grow in abundance here. When I mowed the other day I found some old puffballs :'(, and yesterday my husband said there are a bunch of old parasol mushrooms standing at the edge of the woods. I was surprised, as even with one rain the soil in the garden was not wet.

[DM]

Around here they are called stump mushrooms, and that's what i know them by. I assume they got that name because that's where you find them, on the ground around old stumps.

There's lots of them around right now, as we've had enough rain to get them going, and in fact it's raining on and off a little today...

DM

[bookwormom]

light brown on top and underneath and growing in clusters?
New potatoes and mushrooms in sour cream sauce sounds wonderful. ( add a bayleaf, it really improves it).

[idris]

Recently went for a stroll around town [ pop.20,000] and around where I live, [pop 290], and came across: rose hips, bunya nuts [Auracaria: largest pine nuts in the world] , walnuts, hazelnuts {filberts}, cattails, swamp dock, nettles, box thorn, & puffball mushrooms, along with olives, grapes, figs, and pomegranates: I resisted the urge to go for the ducks, or the fruit bat colony; and have had no luck in snaring rabbits. In other seasons, there are also plums, apricots, crab apples, & cherries. Under English Common law, what hangs over the fence line belongs over the fence line., and that is what applies in this part of the world { N.S.W., Oz}And I know where the mulberries are not yet ripe.

[clarkshomestead]

You can se pictures of what I'm eating way down here in Southeast Alabama on my site http://www.freewebs.com/clarkshomestead/ can you guys post some pics of what you're eating please so I can Identify better. My knowledge is limited to my area and what I've read in books about other areas.