Prepare a dish - PEP BB foraging.sand.dish

Mike Haasl wrote:To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
Prepare a dish (soup, salad, entree, side, etc.) that uses at least a cup of one of:
- watercress

To document your completion of the BB, provide the following:
 - A picture of one of the plants in the wild
 - A picture of obviously more than a cup of foraged ingredients (or pic of the ingredients in a measuring cup)
 - A picture of the finished dish
 - A description of what the dish is

Clarifications:
 - This is "Foraging" so the plants can not be cultivated by you.

I harvested watercress and made an "egg in a blanket" topped with watercress. I cut a hole in bread, put it on a skillet, crack an egg in the hole, when the egg is finished cooking, I add watercress on top. Tasty!

To document your completion of the BB, provide the following: ✔️
- A picture of one of the plants in the wild ✔️
- A picture of obviously more than a cup of foraged ingredients (or pic of the ingredients in a measuring cup) ✔️
- A picture of the finished dish ✔️
- A description of what the dish is ✔️
I made a Salad with:
Lambs Quarter
Kale
Doc
Buckwheat plant leaves
Buckwheat plant flower
Feverfew
Lemon balm
Currants

Clarifications:
- This is "Foraging" so the plants can not be cultivated by you. ✔️

Attached are the photos of the salad and ingredients.
Blessings Catherine

I foraged dandelion leaves and added them to a salad. Since only my 1/2 cup measure was clean, I used it twice for measuring the greens. The salad also included lettuce, croutons, and a creamy vinaigrette.

Yesterday I foraged:
Purslane
Sow Thistle
Wild Arugula
Mallow
Barrel Cactus Fruit

I found these by the roadside, in an alleyway, and the corner of a small park.
I live in the middle of a city, so this is the only "wild" around me, unless I drive far away in a car - which I'd rather not.
I also found this awesome Urban Foraging Map today!

At first I thought the sow thistle was dandelion, but after researching I found out it's technically not dandelion but is in the dandelion family. They consider it invasive around here; personally I don't think free food invading a dry land is such a bad thing.

The purslane is at the end of its season, but I managed to get quite a bit of it.

The dish: I added the foraged ingredients to some steamed potatoes, onion and garlic; I seasoned the dish with some butter, salt, and pepper.

It was yummy! The barrel cactus fruit has a lemon-like flavor, and the seeds have a nice crunch resembling poppy seeds. The "wild arugula" has a spicy mustard flavor. I made the dish again this morning, adding some red peppers and basil from my potted porch plants.