foraging in the yard for noms

[crazyfurries]

I should always remember to forage in my own yard for some things for salads. It's so easy to forget how delicious some plants can be in a salad, and cost so little for me to get aside from a little work picking them!




Case in point, the wild wood violet, which grows like gangbusters in the grass of the lawn, between the dandelions, creeping blistered charlie, clover, pokkelidjer weed (crownvetch) and tiny fernlike plants I can't freaking identify.




Four cups of violet blossoms and I haven't even gotten through 1/4 of the yard. What I don't eat, I'll press or dry on a rack for dried flower jars.

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[scribe-of-stars.livejournal.com]

So...what do salad flowers taste like?

[crazyfurries.livejournal.com]

Wood violets: very lightly sweet and fragrant, with a little spice and tang to them.

They'd be better in a mescaline mix than a spinach mix I think.

You don't want to just gorge on the flowers. is bad taste.

[wrinde.livejournal.com]

I bet the tiny ferny plants are some variety of yarrow.