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Huckleberry scones. The huckleberry bush is from my encouraging wild and volunteer plants so the "witch's broom" infection is being removed but you get a good look at healthy leaves in the upper left corner.
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Huckleberry wild in my yard.
Huckleberry wild in my yard.
 
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I made a foraged salad for lunch. I tried to gather ones that would not be bitter so everyone in my family could enjoy it. The chickweed's flavor was a new and pleasant surprise, mild and crisp. The greens I gathered were lambs quarters, chickweed, common mallow, plantain, and violet leaves with a hand full of red clover flowers to add color.
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Young Lambs Quaters
Young Lambs Quaters
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Chickweed
Chickweed
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Common Mallow
Common Mallow
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Plantain
Plantain
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Collected
Collected
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Washed and tossed
Washed and tossed
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To document your completion of the BB, provide the following:
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I made nettle chips this morning as an experiment. I based what I did on this recipe, but I probably used too much butter, for which they suffered, and maybe I overcooked them at 22 minutes. They're not burnt exactly, but kind of ashy in texture. I don't love kale chips, but they're better than this. I forgot to salt them at first and adding a pop of salt helps but I'm still not tasting nettle the way you do in a soup.

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"one of the plants in the wild"
"one of the plants in the wild"
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"pic of the ingredients in a measuring cup"
"pic of the ingredients in a measuring cup"
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gratuitious action shot
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"picture of the finished dish"
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I foraged dandelions to diversify the phytonutrients in our lunch salad today. I pick young leaves and cut off the hoary old stem bits because the stem/vein is full of awfully bitter latex. The amount of that that's in the leafy bits is a little much for my daughter, so I'm careful about it while still wanting to keep exposing her. The salad also had a bag of grocery store romaine mix, freshly harvested chives, a bell pepper, sunflower and radish sprouts, carrots, celery, and herbed gouda. A little over a cup of greens distributed across three salads doesn't seem like much, but the dandelion is assertive enough that especially in the aftertaste, it's obviously present.

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The little field between our back door and the sauna.
The little field between our back door and the sauna.
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A cup of greens.
A cup of greens.
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Dandelion salad.
Dandelion salad.
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Ready to eat.
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My post had a last picture of my foraged salad in a salad spinner bowl. It was finished in that picture, we directly served it onto our plates from there. If need be, I can always make another salad, but I just wanted to explain really quick.
 
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