Elderberry flower . fritters

Elderberry flower fritters  well I must say I got in a bit of a hurry on this ad the results, although tasty or a bit on the greasy side. In our house we normally don’t deep fry anything so in the future I think I would just take the elderberry flowers and mix them in a batter for fritters or pancakes, even better yet if you’re worried about your diet that is. They add a nice sweetness to the fritters and this time I won’t have to be disappointed that the birds ate all the elderberries before I got a chance to get to them. I at least got the flowers this time around :-) .

 

Thai soup with foraged greens I don’t know why we look further than our own backyards for nutritious food?

 Thai soup with foraged greens. I love a good spicy Thai soup. I found all the ingredients out in the yard and in the alleyway. I have squash blossoms from my garden, some sort of squash that I have no idea what the name of it is, lambs quarters, Primrose leaves and Primrose buds, and curly dock leaves. I did, of course, add coconut milk, a little bit of chili paste and ginger and a teaspoon of sugar and some garlic. It was delicious! I didn’t have to worry about anything being poisoned or for that matter hard to grow. Most of the world sees some of this food as weeds and it’s because it grows without any effort on your part. I will probably be picking lambs quarters and curly dock leaves all summer long. I don’t know why we look further than our own backyards for nutritious food?

Unusual food from your garden

I know this is a little bit off-topic but there’s a lot of stuff that you probably have thrown away or is put in the compost pile rather than eat. Here are a few; garlic scapes, squash blossoms, tender seed pods from radishes.  I often have a few radishes that didn’t quite mature enough or matured too much. It is those that are allowed to go up to seed and use some for next planting and some for eating. These things can be added to soups, marinated and added to salads or stirfried. With the garlic scapes I usually boil them for just a little bit soften them.

Spring has sprung!.

 Spring has sprung And it is time to cook with greens. Someone gifted me a ham bone yesterday from Easter dinner and so today I’m making beans and greens. Since I have lots of naturally growing greens in my backyard they will be the greens that I am using. I also found some leaks that I cut up and froze last week and they’re going into the pot as well.

Lambs quarters, curly dock, dandelion, and also both violet leaves and flowers are edible although this time around they won’t go into the stew pot but the blossoms will go in tonight‘s salad