Dandelion Bread and Butter pudding
Dandelion Honey/Syrup another recipe for dandelion syrup
Friday 21 April 2023
Wednesday 19 April 2023
Bank holiday Monday: From Spade to plate :Chickweed pesto with asparagus and sundried tomato couscous
This post was first written 3 years ago on 6/5/2018. What a difference in weather. This year's bank holiday was wet and windy. Normally not the best way to spend a bank holiday, but after more than a month without rain, many of us welcomed it with open arms.
3 years ago I wrote: Sun sun glorious sunshine.
Today we had a large group of visiting scholars: Yumi, Takashi and Yuki from Japan, Melendra from the US, Simone from Italy, Sarolta from Hungary, Felicia from China and June and I.
All of them seem to have Dandelion in their countries, so a good excuse to come up with a few tasty recipes.
We went to the allotment to pick the dandelions for the Dandelion Marmalade.
We all went home with a jar, still warm and not quite set, so hopefully by tomorrow we can enjoy home made marmalade!
We also helped Ted, by weeding his soon to be bean trench, the Chickweed was nice and juicy, just right for the Chickweed pesto we used for the couscous dish.
The asparagus were popping out of the ground as we watched, so they too were picked to go into our lovely fresh lunch.
As it was so hot, we made a Couscous salad with Chickweed pesto, sundried tomatoes, feta cheese and asparagus.
On the way home we found some lambs lettuce,lovage, sorrel, rocket and flowers of rosemary, calendula and few few forget-me-nots. Which made the salad not only taste lovely but a joy for the eye.
When we had a little break we tasted some of the dandelion bread and jelly that was made last week.
It went down rather fast!
Some nutritional facts about Dandelions
Some nutritional facts about Chickweed
Today we had a large group of visiting scholars: Yumi, Takashi and Yuki from Japan, Melendra from the US, Simone from Italy, Sarolta from Hungary, Felicia from China and June and I.
All of them seem to have Dandelion in their countries, so a good excuse to come up with a few tasty recipes.
We went to the allotment to pick the dandelions for the Dandelion Marmalade.
We all went home with a jar, still warm and not quite set, so hopefully by tomorrow we can enjoy home made marmalade!
We also helped Ted, by weeding his soon to be bean trench, the Chickweed was nice and juicy, just right for the Chickweed pesto we used for the couscous dish.
The asparagus were popping out of the ground as we watched, so they too were picked to go into our lovely fresh lunch.
As it was so hot, we made a Couscous salad with Chickweed pesto, sundried tomatoes, feta cheese and asparagus.
On the way home we found some lambs lettuce,lovage, sorrel, rocket and flowers of rosemary, calendula and few few forget-me-nots. Which made the salad not only taste lovely but a joy for the eye.
When we had a little break we tasted some of the dandelion bread and jelly that was made last week.
It went down rather fast!
Some nutritional facts about Dandelions
Some nutritional facts about Chickweed
Monday 10 April 2023
Nettle Soup with oat and Yoghurt bread and Dandelion Waffles
Today we will be making oat milk for the waffles we are making, using the left over oats to go into the oat and yoghurt bread.
A great foraging day today.
Although there was a fresh chill in the air, the sun was out and so were the dandelions that we picked in the garage area behind our house.
When we peeped around the corner we were greeted by a see of yellow dandelions. We all pick a few handfuls to be prepared for Dandelion Oat Waffles we followed this recipe to the letter other than adding some poppy seeds which were harvested last autumn.
These were then added to the batter and turned into some delicious waffles, which we ate with icing sugar but also a dollop of banana and blueberry ice cream (left over from Monday's from Spade to Plate session)
We made some Swedish Nettle soup which we had with the oat bread. We baked the bread on the stove in a pan. Delicious!
A great foraging day today.
Although there was a fresh chill in the air, the sun was out and so were the dandelions that we picked in the garage area behind our house.
When we peeped around the corner we were greeted by a see of yellow dandelions. We all pick a few handfuls to be prepared for Dandelion Oat Waffles we followed this recipe to the letter other than adding some poppy seeds which were harvested last autumn.
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| The Ladies are separating the yellow petals from the flower head |
These were then added to the batter and turned into some delicious waffles, which we ate with icing sugar but also a dollop of banana and blueberry ice cream (left over from Monday's from Spade to Plate session)
We made some Swedish Nettle soup which we had with the oat bread. We baked the bread on the stove in a pan. Delicious!
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