Noodles and Weeds!
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» LadyB - Jeffrey, thanks for stopping by! Yes, I think being driven by po
Jeffrey, thanks for stopping by! Yes, I think being driven by poverty was how most people came to look around them for good food to eat. I think it's the best of cosmic jokes that now that we 'study' them at our leisure, they're turning out to be far more nutritious than the foods that 'industry' has produced for us, and back we go!"Strange Weeds Floating in my Udon" sounds like dinner around my house most of the time!
Lady B, Weeds and Wild Things
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» LadyB - UPDATE, UPDATE UPDATE!!
On this particularly drizzly day, but dry enough that one assistant could indeed start rototilling the huge vegetable garden, my other assistant was pressed into service (as he laughed and said...)HARVESTING WEEDS!! We cut the tender tops of bags and bags and BAGS of lamb's quarters and everyone around here will be eating GOOD tonite!! We've even made an 'executive decision' that one section of the vege garden will be set aside for an organized 'crop' of lamb's quarters. How nice.-- posted by LadyB
» LadyB - I'm sure there's more YUM
...than oxalic acid. Chenopodium album is a relative of beets, swiss chard, quinoa and spinach, all being part of the Chenopodiacaea family. Rhubarb is in a different family altogether, Polygonacea. Other plants that DO contain oxalic acid are French Sorrel and Wood sorrel. Plants that contain appreciable amounts of oxalic acid are SOUR, sharp-tasting. Lamb's quarters are very bland, which is a good indication that they are indeed FOOD plants. So fear them not, Suzanne!And OH Chris....remember the VAT we cooked up last year?? Udon noodles, olive oil, umeboshi plum vinegar, lamb's quarters.....aaaahhhhh! Get the drool buckets!
*OH* yeah....WAY over there on the YUM meter........
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» spinlily - Had 'em for dinner
Thanks for the info - I always wonder about these things...Lambs quarters are abundant on my compost pile, so we had steamed lambs quarters, Japanese buckwheat noodles, and some tiny volunteer garlic. YUM indeed ;)
In other greens news, the Russian red kale I was so worried about last year went to seed and is now sprouting everywhere!
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» Carol Wallace - Would someone please post a good picture of this plant?
I ordered seeds of the red version and they never came up. I am sure that it must beone of my many weeds - but I have no idea which one!-- posted by Carol Wallace
» LadyB - Carol,
The photos linked in the article are really pretty clear. They added a second photo to the third link about what they look like in Japan and the bottom photo is really "IT"....The first link is TOTALLY clear as to what they look like as seedlings. The second link wouldn't go through this morning, saying the server was down, but I'll try it again later.-- posted by LadyB
» crazyfingers19 - Lamb's Quarters and Quinoa
I grow both lamb's quarters and quinoa. One on purpose, one by luck! Does lamb's quarters have any saponin content like the quinoa? Also, will they cross-pollinate? After reading these posts, I can't wait for spring to sample my own pigweed quiche.Crazyfingers19
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» LadyB - Re: Lamb's Quarters and Quinoa
In response to message posted by crazyfingers19:Well, CF19, I just went through about a dozen of my books and can't find a THING on the saponin content of Lamb's Quarters. I would imagine that all the Chenopodii are capable of cross-pollinating, and yet, we seemed to have two distinctly different kinds in the huge vegetable garden I used to manage. One came up earlier, with far less of the 'silicon-bead-meal' stuff on the leaves and the leaves were paler green and longer than the almost bluish-green leaves of what I know as REAL lamb's quarters. Both were equally tasty.(and OH yeah, the lambs quaarter quiches were SPLENDID!!)
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