If you can't beat 'em... eat 'em
Heh heh
cvirtue got me started on a quest to find recipes for garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata, an invasive plant that is trying to take over my yard. The seeds are viable for 5 years in the soil, deer won't eat them and they crowd out other plants in the understory, and one source says they suppress mycorrhizae. An assault on Hypersea!
cvirtue sent me to a web page with recipes for it, http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Plants.Folder/Garlic%20Mustard.html, which reminded me that I've got a bunch of wild food cookbooks gathering dust on my shelves. I've never found those books to be terribly practical, since they often lack such basics as an index. They're fun to have, though, and well, I couldn't possibly get rid of them!
Only one of the five books had anything about this plant, so I went online. For anyone living within the range of garlic mustard, then, here is a list of nifty links.
The Invasive Plant Atlas of New England has a Garlic Mustard Challenge, and posts winning recipes at: http://www.patapscoheritagegreenway.org/garlic07/index.html. They definitely look interesting.
Well-illustrated, appealing recipes: http://www.fosc.org/GM-Recipe.htm
Here is a collection that includes other invasives too: http://www.ma-eppc.org/weedrecipes.html
We added some to tonight's stir fry, along with the spinach.
cvirtue got me started on a quest to find recipes for garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata, an invasive plant that is trying to take over my yard. The seeds are viable for 5 years in the soil, deer won't eat them and they crowd out other plants in the understory, and one source says they suppress mycorrhizae. An assault on Hypersea!
cvirtue sent me to a web page with recipes for it, http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Plants.Folder/Garlic%20Mustard.html, which reminded me that I've got a bunch of wild food cookbooks gathering dust on my shelves. I've never found those books to be terribly practical, since they often lack such basics as an index. They're fun to have, though, and well, I couldn't possibly get rid of them!
Only one of the five books had anything about this plant, so I went online. For anyone living within the range of garlic mustard, then, here is a list of nifty links.
The Invasive Plant Atlas of New England has a Garlic Mustard Challenge, and posts winning recipes at: http://www.patapscoheritagegreenway.org/garlic07/index.html. They definitely look interesting.
Well-illustrated, appealing recipes: http://www.fosc.org/GM-Recipe.htm
Here is a collection that includes other invasives too: http://www.ma-eppc.org/weedrecipes.html
We added some to tonight's stir fry, along with the spinach.