I said, don’t roll your eyes at me. So we have this curiosity of wild foods this year. Let me state that the Lord is providing wonderfully through my husbands job, we are doing fine…really….it is just a *thing* I have this year. Blame it on the cattails horn root last fall. It is AMAZING how many plants are edible around us. Why not take advantage of free food? Chickweed is a staple at our table now and we all learned how to eat a raw nettle leaf withOUT getting stung…o.k. some of us did.
Today I received a book titled Wild Harvest – Edible Plants of the Pacific Northwest, Jessie snatched it away from me and off she went. Our new plant of the week is Red Sorrel(sour weed, sheep’s sorrel) – Rumex Acetosella. It is everywhere in my weed beds…eh-hem…I mean my overgrown flower beds. Here among the irises we found a plethora of Red Sorrel.
I called the children together and we identified the plant and its characteristics, then everyone plopped a leaf in their mouth.
It was zingy! A lemony, huckleberry flavor. Lot’s of zip and pizzazz. A must in our chickweed salad..it is like chickweeds eccentric sister. With the addition of Red Sorrel, our salad will not need dressing anymore. Yum.
So, what was their reaction? Pure bliss.
3 comments:
Um Jen....you are cracking me up....I love it! Have you found the yellow flower yet? We may have to go a different direction on our walks to see if you can find it!!
Chessa
I found it yesterday! It is mustard, but it doesn't taste like mustard so I think we are eating the wrong parts. guess I should read that part first. It is the tall weed with tiny yellow flowers on top that is everywhere right now(saw it on our walk).
I think we have that same book...or maybe we got it at the library. Really interesting stuff!
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