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Monday, June 7, 2021

Foraging in your garden

  Foraging in your garden    This is kind of a strange post because I have a lot of things growing in my garden that you’re very familiar with but you may not be familiar with eating other parts of these plants. You’re probably familiar you’re with  eating garlic bulbs which appear under the ground but maybe not so familiar with eating garlic scrapes which are the little tassel things that grow above the ground and eventually produce a pretty little garlic flour. You can eat both the scrapes and the flowers. I also have evening primrose growing in my garden you can eat both the flowers and the leaves and they end up in quite a few of my salads. I grew radishes this year and let some of them go to seed so that I can plant the seeds next year But I bet you didn’t know that you can also eat those little seed pods. They’re both crunchy and spicy. Great and salads.




Friday, June 4, 2021

Service berries and white mulberries


I’m getting ready to dry the mulberries and my husband is making kombucha with both Service berries and mulberries

 

My garden… Some wild things and some tame ones :-)

 


Dehydrated mulberries


I don’t care much for the taste of mulberries so I usually add them with other berries to a pie or cobbler but last year I discovered something new. Dehydrated mulberries are the best! They’re crunchy, sweet, delicious! I put them on yogurt and it has a nice crunch

 

Elderberry flower pancakes

 My elderberries are flowering now and since it seems to me like the birds usually get to the actual berries before I do I decided to go ahead and make some elderberry flour pancakes.