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Offline Marbees

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Wild Edible Plants
« on: February 01, 2014, 10:41:41 pm »
It's always a good thing to know more about  wild edible plants already growing in our surroundings.
If you can think of one, please post. I will start with Common Nettle or Stinging Nettle.
After cooking in salted boiling water, drain, cut in bite size pieces. Could be prepared as a side dish, served with fish, mixed with cooked potato,
or in making of corn bread squares, good in soups. Great alternative to spinach.
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Re: Wild Edible Plants
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2014, 10:46:55 pm »
When my wife and I were visiting NYC several years ago, I was told that my salad had dandelions in it.   :o  Yuck.  Good for bees, bad for people!
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Re: Wild Edible Plants
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2014, 11:34:29 pm »
My fav wild edible plant isnt really a plant.. Morel Mushrooms!  Picked fresh, soaked in light saltwater overnight, fried in REAL butter the next day!   Good deep fried too, but the REAL butter makes the meal!
  The big yellows are fantastic, but the greys get my vote for best flavor and richness!

   

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Re: Wild Edible Plants
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2014, 08:45:20 am »
Creasy greens


http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/edible-wild-plant-creasy-greens-zmaz84zloeck.aspx

They grow in last year's corn fields mostly. Fresh greens in February.
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Re: Wild Edible Plants
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2014, 09:53:53 am »
My mum always said her grandmother liked poke salad greens, but now I understand they are poisonous?

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ps - ooo, i think we have creasy greens in our yard.  I'll be on the look out this year.
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Re: Wild Edible Plants
« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2014, 10:03:02 am »
lazy darned you!!!! now I'm hungry for a plate of morels. :)  I have been told people around these parts ate a lot of Polk weed during the depression.
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Re: Wild Edible Plants
« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2014, 12:42:25 pm »
Polk is good when the leaves first come up. The plant is poison once it stalks.
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Re: Wild Edible Plants
« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2014, 02:15:25 pm »
Thanks iddee ,

Sounds like something that is better learned in person than on the internet.  :)  Like mushrooms, i'll wait until i'm standing next to the person who is showing me what is ok or not ok to eat when there is poison involved :).

'preciate the replies!

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Re: Wild Edible Plants
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2014, 03:29:16 pm »
Quote from: Ziffa on February 07, 2014, 09:53:53 am
My mum always said her grandmother liked poke salad greens, but now I understand they are poisonous?

love,
ziffa

ps - ooo, i think we have creasy greens in our yard.  I'll be on the look out this year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytolacca_americana

People have ate it for years and years.  Tony Joe White even wrote a song about it - Poke Salad Annie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poke_Salad_Annie
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Re: Wild Edible Plants
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2014, 04:04:43 pm »
I love that song, but I always mess up and sing Poke Salad Sally!  :-\

If you like that that Slowmodem, you should check out the Wood Brothers.  right up their alley!

I'd be afraid i'd pick it at the wrong time and kill both me and my husband.  He'd never let me live that down.  ;)

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Re: Wild Edible Plants
« Reply #10 on: February 07, 2014, 04:24:37 pm »
Quote from: MinnieMo on February 07, 2014, 10:03:02 am
lazy darned you!!!! now I'm hungry for a plate of morels. :)  I have been told people around these parts ate a lot of Polk weed during the depression.

   I know Right??!!  Few more weeks I'll be hitting the secret patches! Hopefully before anyone else decides to check them!
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Re: Wild Edible Plants
« Reply #11 on: February 07, 2014, 04:26:56 pm »
Quote from: Ziffa on February 07, 2014, 04:04:43 pm
I love that song, but I always mess up and sing Poke Salad Sally!  :-\

When I owned a nightclub and played in the band, that was our most requested song.  When we traveled, it was more like our theme song.   8)
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Re: Wild Edible Plants
« Reply #12 on: February 08, 2014, 05:29:56 pm »
like lazy, we enjoy hunting for morels, love morels, but we also have large patches of wild asparagus on our property, hmmmmm,mmmmm good stuff! a little olive oil, a little salt and pepper, on the grill....yum!
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Re: Wild Edible Plants
« Reply #13 on: February 09, 2014, 09:06:42 am »
Quote from: iddee on February 02, 2014, 08:45:20 am
Creasy greens


http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/edible-wild-plant-creasy-greens-zmaz84zloeck.aspx

They grow in last year's corn fields mostly. Fresh greens in February.

If you get any creasies this year, will you give me a holler?  I can pick 'em, I just don't know where.
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Re: Wild Edible Plants
« Reply #14 on: February 09, 2014, 09:09:04 am »
Check the corn field stubble near you this month. They should be coming up if they didn't use roundup on the corn.
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Re: Wild Edible Plants
« Reply #15 on: February 09, 2014, 09:23:28 am »
Quote from: iddee on February 09, 2014, 09:09:04 am
Check the corn field stubble near you this month. They should be coming up if they didn't use roundup on the corn.

Okay...I'll ask them! Thannks!
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Re: Wild Edible Plants
« Reply #16 on: February 09, 2014, 05:22:41 pm »
If polk will kill you, none of my family including me would have been dead years ago,i've heard that parts of it is poison. We always picked the young leaves for greens and the young new tender stalks we sliced and deep fried in a batter like okra. The big red beefsteak mushrooms come on first in our area then the little gray morels, then the yellow or tan morels in the Spring. In the fall the Coral mushroom are found in the woods, they taste alot like morels to me, and alot easier to find. After a hard frost i like persimmons, my wife makes bread out of them ,like you would pumpkin bread. The possum grapes, and wild summer grapes make good jelly. I'm setting here now with a hot cup of sassafras tea. Cheers :D. Jack
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Re: Wild Edible Plants
« Reply #17 on: February 09, 2014, 07:00:08 pm »
Wow Jack - what a rich cupboard you live in!!  I am seriously jealous.

I love my urban farmlet, but I'd sure like a place in the country close to those kinds of bounty!

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Re: Wild Edible Plants
« Reply #18 on: February 26, 2014, 08:53:57 am »
I have lots of lambs quarter that grows here can be used like most greens.
http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/surprising-lambs-quarters/
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« Reply #19 on: May 14, 2014, 09:25:17 am »
Mama, i'm glad Lambs quarter isn't fattening, i break off the young shoots and eat it raw while hoing it and other weeds out of the garden. :-[ Jack
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