Fantastic! By the way, one of my former advisees who now works as a professional forager showed me a particularly egregious example of an AI-generated book on wild mushrooms that he purchased from Amazon to use as a cautionary prop. It was full of dangerous misinformation. These are now popping up all over the place, joining the many questionable gardening and foraging websites that the bots of churned out. Thank you for steering locals to a trusted teacher!
Yay weeds! Yay nipples! We had the nettle pizza at Lovely's this week and it was so delicious! Neither Robin or I have eaten them any other way we can recall. Your little hats are similar (no red sauce on the pizza and of course, cheese!)...any other suggestions for cooking with them?
You can use them like (cooked) spinach, though the flavor's more like spinach +++. There are a lot of recipes for nettle pesto out there, but nettles have such a robust greenness to them that I like either using them as an accent (mixed in with other greens, added to bean soup) or cut with cheese (like in ravioli filling). There's apparently a patch in the Columbia Children's Arboretum.
I'm imaging Christian's disgusted face as you ate those weeds and his knowing (maybe smug?) nod if you did get a belly ache. ;)
Fantastic! By the way, one of my former advisees who now works as a professional forager showed me a particularly egregious example of an AI-generated book on wild mushrooms that he purchased from Amazon to use as a cautionary prop. It was full of dangerous misinformation. These are now popping up all over the place, joining the many questionable gardening and foraging websites that the bots of churned out. Thank you for steering locals to a trusted teacher!
I've heard about those books! Terrifying. John Kallas is one of the greats here in Western Oregon. (And thanks!)
Yay weeds! Yay nipples! We had the nettle pizza at Lovely's this week and it was so delicious! Neither Robin or I have eaten them any other way we can recall. Your little hats are similar (no red sauce on the pizza and of course, cheese!)...any other suggestions for cooking with them?
You can use them like (cooked) spinach, though the flavor's more like spinach +++. There are a lot of recipes for nettle pesto out there, but nettles have such a robust greenness to them that I like either using them as an accent (mixed in with other greens, added to bean soup) or cut with cheese (like in ravioli filling). There's apparently a patch in the Columbia Children's Arboretum.
Thanks for the mention Jonathan. Maple bud fritters are a goal (next year). In Italy they do acacia blossom and elderflower fritters.
Acacia! You'll soon see that there are elderflowers everywhere here, some native, some European
I don’t have the patience to pick the berries but maybe flowers for cordial.