Recipes for eating your WEEDS!

I will start with Mallow.
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I've been mostly eating this in salads and wraps. It can also be boiled or fried and throw in some onions and garlic and your set! I've really grown to like this plant a lot.
I'm going to be having some fried with cabbage for dinner tonight.

Seems like a good way to save money = making money.

great subject OP. (:

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YUM! thanks :)

Oh for fucks sake, I thought this was a thread for cannabis recipes.

A bit more about Mallow:
"The Malvaceae, or the mallows, are a family of flowering plants containing over 200 genera with close to 2,300 species.[2] Well-known members of this family include okra"

I did notice that mallow had kind of a gooey texture, not as much as okra but it's there. Since they are in the same family and have similar properties I would think mallow would be a great substitute for okra when it's not available.

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Here ya go.

I had a feeling that would happen.

Lambsquarters all the way!

Related to spinach but higher levels of all nutrients! Brought to America and used as a food crop many years ago, it grows as a common weed in the eastern half of the US

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Pick leaves when the plant is less than 2 feet tall. Grew up on these in Montana, weed that likes manure.

Dandelion Fritters: A tasty dandelion recipe ~


You can also eat the leaves! (make sure you pick them somewhere where no pesticides have been used.)
Many different recipes.
You can pour bacon grease over them and make a wilted lettuce salad.

Dandelion's green's and flower's are actually very nutritious. I grow them during the summer to feed my Bearded Dragon. She like's them better than Mustard/Collard/Turnip Green's.

I have plenty of wild garlic

Want some? lol

I always thought 'My Side of the Mountain' was a good book to take a glance through. There's a lot of good info, grinding acorns into flour, turtles into soup, cattails into a potato-like mash (if my memory serves my correct).

I'm not sure how long Parvo lasts in soil, but I pulled up some MASSIVE dandelion roots last years from the yard our dog had poo-ed in three years earlier when he had the disease. The yard had had two years of no dog poo at all. I was going to make some dandelion root tea, but I didn't expect them to get moldy so quickly.

for this thread!!

Thanks for sharing!

It's all better with butter...

This, also you need a cow, and must feed it.

Fry purslane with butter and fried onions and garlic, tomato and herbs from the yard. Yum.

adding to favs

Purslane is great in salads or cooked.

Oddly enough, the plantain in my yard (which I usually keep only medicinally) is absolutely delicious this year. Lovely subtle nutty flavor. Usually it's "just another green" taste-wise.

london rocket, amaranth, heart of cattail stalk, young hippie lettuce, plaintain plant, henbit... to name a few

Hippie lettuce= I mean wild lettuce, not pot.