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If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em

DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
edited June 2018 in The potting shed
I've often spoken of eating some of our weeds ... I suspect that some people may wonder whether I actually do this ... so I thought I'd show you what's for lunch today ...  I've been weeding the veg patch and following the warm damp weather the chickweed was lush, so it's paté and chickweed sandwiches for lunch





I really am quite surprised that no one grows and sells chickweed ... delicious and nutritious, and very easy to grow!!!  ;)

Who else eats their weeds?

Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I have a lush looking nettle. The tops will be added to my mashed potato tonight. Salt, pepper and lots of olive oil with, ab fab.
  • autumngloryautumnglory Posts: 255
    What does it taste like?
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2018
    The chickweed?   Sort of like 'lamb's lettuce ... what the French know as Mache ... a sort of fresh 'green' taste without the bitterness of lettuce.  A bit like the leaves of a butterhead lettuce without the milky sap of the midrib of the leaf.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    The nettles? It somehow enriches mash like nothing else. Green and deep.

    I eat borage flowers, but they are not exactly weeds and nasturtiums that are coming up everywhere at the mo. 
  • BijdezeeBijdezee Posts: 1,484
    Not weeds but I did put some nasturtium leaves in the salad and 'they' looked at me like I had gone totally mad.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Love nasturtium leaves in a salad ... and have you tried them in a rye bread and salami sandwich ... delicious  <3

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    We love the chive flowers to eat.
    ranpbbit eats the chickweed. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Lyn said:
    We love the chive flowers to eat.
    ranpbbit eats the chickweed. 
    Tut tut, should have said rabbit ears the chickweed. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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