Dandelion Recipes

Dandelion: Recipes for ways to use dandelions in your kitchen including coffee, pesto, preserves & wine. | The Micro Gardener

A green juice recipe to support the liver, a major organ and responsible for many functions in our body. Try this recipe out to give your liver a boost.

One of the first questions asked by many a beginner when it comes to their first foray into the wild larder is ‘what easiest to begin with?’ The most obvious would be the stinging nettle, blackberries, elderflower and of course:...

Fizzy dandelion soda - lacto-fermented yum (with recipes for soda starter, kombucha, and ginger ale as well)

As in dandelion. The bane of beautiful lawns everywhere. I'm sure you have heard that dandelion leaves are edible. Maybe you've heard the words "dandelion wine" thrown around somewhere. You might have even seen today's recipe, as it has been mentioned several times on this wonderful blog. But maybe, like me, you weren't aware that every part of the plant is edible, and that our little commonplace roadside weed in fact packs a burst of vitamins and medicinal properties. Besides that, when…

Let’s get the hard part out of the way. This week, I’m suggesting you eat something most people spend the better part of their adult lives trying to eradicate from their lawns: dandelion greens. Not the flowers or stems or the puffy white seeds kids love to blow (thereby complicating your eradication efforts). Just the long, green leaves that grow toward the base of the plant. While we know it better as a weed, since prehistory the leaves of this plant have been gathered and consumed around…

Spring is here. And with that comes fresh greens from the garden as well as foraging for all kinds of good things nature has to offer. One ...

Got Dandelions? Don't kill them! Eat them! This is a Dandelion Ravioli...a 1st place winning recipe at the Breitenbach Dandelion Festival.

Recipes for Health - Dandelion Tart - NYTimes.com except, i didn't have mushrooms or gruyere, so i used about a third cup of finely chopped alcaparado and half cojito and half cheddar.

Since Japanese knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum) is so common and highly invasive here in southern New England, it is easy to find in quantity in the early spring. It is best picked as a tart, toothsome shoot before it gets much bigger than 8" tall. As it grows, it get tough and stringy and more difficult to incorporate into a recipe. We have made quite a few sweet recipes with knotweed, like dessert bars, jelly and tapioca. Here is a savory idea made with raw, sliced knotweed shoots to eat as…

A frugal, very healthy green rich in vitamins!

It is the time of year when almost every one has a bumper crop of dandelions. The dandelion is a wild edible and as long as you can pick some that have

This time of year the allergies [itchy eyes, sneezing, along with headaches and stomach issues] become sometimes unbearable. Especially th...