You can use dandelions to make tea, wine, salads, and other edible side dishes. They are also rich in vitamins and antioxidants. “One cup of dandelion greens contains almost twice as much iron as spinach and over 500 percent of your daily intake of vitamin K, which may play a role in...
I already drink a green smoothie every day, so it was easy for me to add dandelion greens. It doesn’t take much, and you don’t want too much because they have a bitter and very grassy flavor. But in a smoothie full of delicious fruits and other veggies, I hardly noticed they were...
How do you cook peas? Peas are cooked in the least possible amount of water and in just the time for them to become just tender. The French cook peas in the water it takes to moisten lettuce leaves. Line a saucepan with damp greens and a few pea pods, pour in the shelled peas, ...
The universal edibility test can also sometimes lead you to believe edible plants are inedible. For instance, stinging nettles are edible when cooked, but cause a skin reaction. Another example is how acorns and water lilies are both very bitter unless boiled, so the edibility test would falsely...
These foods include raw dandelion greens, raw leeks, raw onions, underripe bananas and apples with skin. Leafy greens: Leafy greens such as spinach, kale and broccoli are high in antioxidants, minerals and vitamins that are essential for gut health. They also often contain high levels of ...
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How to Use Dandelions For Survival Having covered the benefits of dandelions now is time to discuss how to identify, harvest, and use them. I know I said earlier that almost everyone knows what this little guy looks like but not everyone has had the same experiences. Dandelion Identification...
A point to keep in mind- remember that the key to a perfect salad is balance. When using bitter ingredients, the more bitter you have, the more sweet and/or sour you need to balance it out. A salad with lots of bitter greens pretty much needs a sweet dressing, or something very swee...
Buy or borrow wild and cultivated plant guides and learn how to use the identifier keys that they contain. Look at the weeds that grow from cracks in the asphalt, along the roadsides, or along the woodland path. Identify the aromatic flowers and shrubs that grow in a neighbor’s yard. No...
To give your liver some love and support hormone detoxification, incorporate bitter leafy greens like kale and dandelion greens, into your daily diet, and consider using bitter herbs (dandelion root, yellow dock root, burdock root, artichoke, milk thistle, and Oregon grape root) as an aperitif ...