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CW: Nettle Potato Soup Recipe
I invented this very cheap and simple recipe today!
Stinging nettles are surprisingly tasty! The young leaves kinda taste like spinach and can be used as such. Like most edible "weeds" it is very high in vitamins and minerals, plus it has protein.
I find them so rich in flavour that I don't need extra herbs to go with them, salt is enough to season the nettle meal. Though a spritz of lemon juice really brings out the flavour!
This is more a formula of how to make the soup/stew, since I don't have exact measurements — just eyeball it! It's soup after all. You can also add other stuff you have on hand or swap out the carrots.
Ingredients:
- bunch of stinging nettles
- potatoes
- carrots
- salt
- optional spices like pepper, onion, garlic, lemon juice
- cooking oil
- whatever else you have on hand1. Pick a bunch of stinging nettle tops and small leaves (avoid the tougher stems and older leaves). You can wear gloves or be adventurous like me and do it barehanded
2. If you pour boiling water over the nettles, they'll lose their sting
3. Cut as many potatoes as you want to eat into bitesize pieces
4. Cut some carrots into slices (I used about half as many as potatoes by volume, but this is super flexible)
5. Put the potatoes and carrots in a pot with boiling water and salt and boil
6. You can add pepper, onions, garlic (fresh, frozen or powdered) and a bit of lemon juice for extra flavour (optional)
7. Add a generous amount of cooking oil — we want this to fill us up after all!
8. Rip or cut the nettles into bite size bits and add to the soup
9. cook until potatoes are done, stir occasionallyBon Appetit!
#cooking #food #recipe #WeedEating #WildeNahrung #foraging #WildFood #WildFoods
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today, I be do EXPERIMENT from garden:
I be pluck some stinging nettle tops and small leaf, and make food from! (I also dig out as much of root as can, because is part of garden we want be able walk barefoot. is soooooo many root! very tenacious plant)
I not put picture of food, because look ugly. but taste good! 😋🍃
I wash nettle, then boil a bit. now no longer sting!
then I cut into small bits. if have blender, I be blend, but not have. I add salt, pepper, garlic powder, lots oil and little lemon juice (the cheap one from plastic lemon). I also add crushed sunflower seeds. I use mortar and pestle, because not have no blender. but it ok, it more work, but I be like have some small crunchy bit still. like crunchy peanut butter, but sunflower!is be like pesto, only be differ. I be eat together of pasta.
is very nommy! Nam! 😋
#gardentooting #nettles #StinginNettles #perennials #wildFood #WildFoods #WeedEating
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🐼 The climate conscious bandit eats leaves and shoots! 🔫🍃🌳
some reasons for eating tree leaves (and using trees for staple crops too):
🌳 yummy! 😋
🌳 can forage wild for free 🕊️
🌳 connect to nature 💚
🌳 very nutritious - leaves of woody plants are on average much higher in key nutrients than annual vegetables 🥗
🌳 woody plants, especially trees, sequester carbon! ⤵️
🌳 they improve soil health and reduce erosion 🪱
🌳 climate resilience 🌍
🌳 trees are more resilient to fluctuating weather and climate conditions than annual crops 🌥️
🌳 they're better at soaking up and storing rain - important with increasingly unpredictable rainfalls 💦
🌳 increase water quality 💧
🌳 habitat 🐦
🌳 pollination 🐝 🦋
🌳 less susceptible to diseases and pests, especially in diverse systems (not monocrops) 🐞
🌳 reduced need for pesticides ☠️
🌳 they provide shade ☂️
🌳 less labour intensive 🏖️
🌳 great diversity, increases biodiversity and diversity of foods 🌈
🌳 they promote longterm thinking and concern for the ecosystem 🧓🤝👶
🌳 can be important culturally, especially to indigenous peoples 🧑🌾
🌳 there are species suitable to all climates and conditions where food is grown 🏜️ ❄️ ⛰️ 🌲🧵 for some temperate examples off the top of my head
#climate #nutrition #agriculture #FoodForest #FoodForests #vegetables #veggies #permaculture #tree #trees #perennial #perennials #PerennialGarden #foraging #WeedEating #WildFoods