For some reason , I awaken today with a rough craving for tonic , healthy park .
Our dieting of tardy has been somewhat lackluster in the green vegetable department , in part because we ’ve been too busy to hit the supermarket , but also due to our endeavour to adopt a more locavore uprise - it - yourself or shop class - the - farmer’s - market seasonal dieting .
alas , at present our sodbuster ’s markets are still closed , and here on the farm we only have two pathetic - looking kale plant life that survived winter in our garden . ( However , the weeds are doing just fine ! )
insensate frame and a cute glasshouse for yr - cycle Green raise are on THE inclination , but that does n’t feed my current craving .
Thank good for our stinging nettle patch .
I notice in February that the nettles , which pop up around our goat and sheep ’s climbing rocks every yr , had already started to appear , and so this morning I grabbed pair of scissors and filled a bag with young shoots and parting — careful not to advert them , of course .
For lunch , I heat up a few tablespoons of olive oil and sautéed two teaspoonful of minced garlic , then added a colander one-half full of rinsed stinging nettle shoots .
After sautéing the putting surface for about five minutes ( cookery stamp out the sting ) , I sum up a beaten mixture of two eggs , one slicing Provolone cheese ( torn to pieces ) , Strategic Arms Limitation Talks / pepper and snipped schnittlaugh from my garden for serious measure . Then I scramble everything together until the eggs were soundly cooked ( I sum up another tablespoon of oil to keep them from stick ) , and enjoy it with mint jelly - topped toast . It not only live up to my sassy green craving , but tasted fabulous !
Once upon a meter , I despised nettles . A marvelous perennial fond of moist , disturbed ground , it ran rampant at the wildlife car park I once work out at and often gave me prick smack as I tromped around the immense free - roaming expanse inhabited by moose , bison and other animate being .
Then , after name our own plot of ground , I did some enquiry and learn nettle are a robust source of vitamins A and C. The Native Americans boom on these nutritious plant and used the tough fibre to manner net and noose .
you may also use nettles to make a hefty spring soda water Camellia sinensis , sauté them with fresh herbs in olive petroleum as a vegetable side dish , or cook up acreamy nettle soupsimilar to leek soup .
caveat : Always positively describe raging foods before partaking ( consult a good edible plant rule book ) . Also , if you store your nettle harvest in the fridge , judge it so someone does n’t get a painful surprise if they accomplish in the bag !
Bon appétit !
~ Cherie
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