Sauté some garlic, onions and bacon , add those wild greens then beat 2 eggs with half a cup of milk and pour it over the mixed greens, season with salt and pepper, pour everything in a pie pan and bake just until the liquids are dried and eggs are set. You have a hearty omelet!
Thanks for mentioning wild violets, Loren Robertson. They are a great wild green. It would be nice if I had some in my yard, for sure! I was able to enjoy them on a visit to Minnesota, in my video on a Wild Dinner with Basswood leaves, Ostrich Ferns, and White Pine. Happy foraging! :D
Holly you are the best!! Thank you for helping me learn about wild edibles. You are my favorite TH-cam channel for wild edibles. I love that you show us how to prepare them to be eaten. That is so helpful. Thanks for being you.
I'm 67 and was tought to parboil different greens separately. When they are the same doneness, I mix them together, season them up and as my highschool home ec teacher said 'I cook them to death'. It doesn't matter if a lot of the vitamins and such cooks out into the broth, because we eat that, too, soaked up in the cornbread 😋
I don't know how to say this you're just phenomenal God bless you and all the knowledge you have thank you thank you thank you yeah that's how I just wanted to say that
Wel, now that you have shown me what wild greens are good to eat, it's time to try my hand at cooking them. And as a newbie wild greens cook, I'm excited to test each individual plant flavor and texture the way you have shown. I finally found I have the opium wild lettuce variety that is spreading throughout the garden. It needs cooking to keep it down some lol. Anyhow, thanks so much for another great video that is helping me to shop local, aka, my yard:) And glad to see you have 25.9 subscribers, now your channel will really grow as word gets out! P.S. I just signed on to Facebook and you will be the one and only link I will promote, well, hope to, I'm not that social:)
+webbsway You're welcome! There are so many plants out there that can be real food for regular people! I was fortunate to be taught to pick and eat weeds as a kid, and have enjoyed them ever since. I hope more people can learn how much food is all around them!
Glad you're enjoying my videos, Elizarobin. There are so many great weeds out there, just waiting for us. Every bowl of greens in this video was good eating, in its own way. Happy spring!
Enjoying your video's and subscribed. We do pressure can plantain, nettle and pineapple weed and would like to add more wild greens to it. In northern BC we have different greens and may find some from your video t o add to our menu. All the best.
Wow - what great videos you've created! I just learned so much from you -Thank you! I've been identifying and sampling small amounts of some of these, but really pussyfooting around, picking a few leaves at a time from each plant and adding them to salads, soups and casseroles. The way you went through your place like gangbusters, you've inspired me to get serious, pick lots, prep them and stash them away in my freezer while the growing is still good. Can't thank you enough! Subscribed and shared to Facebook as well.
+Rose Hilliard Thanks for the kinds words and sharing! I eat a lot of weeds! They can be real food for regular people! They are out there growing, on their own, no matter what we are doing. We just have to learn the details and then get to picking! I'd love to hear how you enjoy the weeds that you are eating!
We receive nasty letters from the fire dept if you keep long grass, i.e. lawn food. They will fine you very heavily. California was a cornucopia. Thanks for great vids, I love them and you would make a wonderful homestead mate :) awesome blossom!
You're welcome. Every edible weed makes "greens" just a little bit differently. Trying them one by one, separately, is a good way to get to know them. And that helps in figuring out how to cook them, too. I hope you get to enjoy some weeds!
Amy Hawkins Thanks! Knowing how to prepare different weeds can be as important as identifying them correctly. None of these 10 weeds will be toxic if they are incorrectly prepared, but some will be, like poke, which needs that parboiling a couple times, and skunk cabbage, which has to be completely dried rather than boiled.
LARK'S GARDENS Thanks! Wild greens are especially helpful while we're waiting for our garden plantings to mature. It's incredible how much there is out there! You can't buy 'em, but you can pick all you want for free!
do you know of any methods to store the weeds while also preserving their nutrients? I read that heat usually degrades the nutrient content, so if there's any way to avoid heat I would prefer that method. thank you for the video!
+hello sir Heat affects some nutrients more than others. But there are a few options that are good for keeping the most nutrients -- freezing, dehydrating, and fermenting. For freezing, I treat the greens like any others - I blanch them for 2-3 minutes, cool them off, and freeze them, just like any other greens. My video on springtime collards shows the basics. Dehydrating is great, too, for greens that are not bitter enough to need any blanching. They dry pretty quick in a dehydrator. And then fermenting works great for greens that are substantial, like field mustard. Maybe I'll do a video for both of those last two ways. For any of the greens I showed in this video, I could have just put them in a bag in the freezer and they would be great! Hope that helps!
Thank you! Very informative videos. Maybe I missed this, but why do you parboil, dump the water and boil longer in fresh water? Is it because they're too bitter?
I had the same question and you likely know the answer by now, it's dreaded oxalic acid. If consumed too much it causes cyrstals to form in the bladder and it will hold less and less urine, I found out the hard way drinking raw spinach & wild green smoothies for a year. OA also causes inflammation and other issues that are worth knowing. All greens have them, spinach & lambs quarters are very high! After my episode, thanks to Holly, I have learned to parboil. This removes most of the OA and makes the plant very edible and tastey. Happy harvesting!
The bitter greens are very good for digestion, dandelion help to detox the liver and kidneys. This was great and very informative. Do you freeze your greens once processed/cooked?
Thanks, Hua L! Yes, I like sauteed greens a lot. Some greens, if they are tender or the kind that don't get bitter with age, I will sautee directly, without any blanching. Other times, if the greens are bitter or tough with age, I'll blanch them first and then sautee them. If you have any easy-to-cook suggestions, let us all know in the comments, any time!
Haphazard Homestead Thank you for your response!!! I will definitely try your recipes. I love you videos/channel. Keep up the great work. Can’t wait to start foraging.
Haphazard Homestead I would love to try them in a salad (like the many wonderful ones you make, yum) or boil and eat as a side item and perhaps even stir fry with some meat. I’ve also been doing research on each plants nutritional value, and can’t wait to take my girls outside in search of our lunch.
That's a great tip about the lemon juice and olive oil, Zachary M, and your language lesson. It helps us all appreciate that weedy plants have been real food for regular people for a long time. Enjoy your "horta"! :D
can you dehydrate dandelions and powder it to add to stuff? I can't do the texture of cooked greens. Was wondering if the vitamins would still be there if I dried it.
Hi I wrote to you about some leaves I thought was dock. You told me how to cook them. I only had a few leaves so I boiled them about10 minutes. The leaves turned that olive green color. The water was a yellowish color. After they cooked I tasted a small piece. There was no taste. Just bland. Seams safe to eat. Or mix with other greens.
Dock cook really fast, especially if they are young and tender leaves. They turn that olive green pretty quickly, don't they. I don't cook them very long, unless they are in soup or I've mixed them in with other vegetables. And sometimes, they don't have a strong taste. So I'm not surprised yours didn't have much flavor. Their bland flavor can be good for balancing out plants with stronger or more bitter flavors. That's typically how they are used.
Thank you for your return statement. I really appreciate your help on my dock leaves. I will be checking on your page for more up dates on different weeds. Margaret. N.C.
+kakasanti I live on 1.3 acres in Oregon's Willamette Valley. I'm surrounded by houses, but when I'm here, it feels like I'm in the country. I'm fortunate. There can be a lot of weeds on 1.3 acres! : ) Thanks for watching and commenting!
That's a good question. I think boiling them leaches out more of the bitterness, compared to steaming. There are so many ways to cook dandelions, depending on their condition. I eat plenty of them, straight up raw, if they are lush and tender, like when they grow in the shade or tall grass. But the scrawny little dandelions, or even those lush and tender ones that eventually get stressed from the weather, won't be good to eat no matter what, not even boiled. This is a good topic for a future video -- so thanks!
Sauté some garlic, onions and bacon , add those wild greens then beat 2 eggs with half a cup of milk and pour it over the mixed greens, season with salt and pepper, pour everything in a pie pan and bake just until the liquids are dried and eggs are set. You have a hearty omelet!
I didn't notice any wild violet in your harvest...I really enjoy them too!
Thanks for mentioning wild violets, Loren Robertson. They are a great wild green. It would be nice if I had some in my yard, for sure! I was able to enjoy them on a visit to Minnesota, in my video on a Wild Dinner with Basswood leaves, Ostrich Ferns, and White Pine. Happy foraging! :D
Holly you are the best!! Thank you for helping me learn about wild edibles. You are my favorite TH-cam channel for wild edibles. I love that you show us how to prepare them to be eaten. That is so helpful. Thanks for being you.
I love you and what you do !! Thank you so much for sharing! Keep on being awesome !
I'm 67 and was tought to parboil different greens separately. When they are the same doneness, I mix them together, season them up and as my highschool home ec teacher said 'I cook them to death'. It doesn't matter if a lot of the vitamins and such cooks out into the broth, because we eat that, too, soaked up in the cornbread 😋
I wish you would do a book for us to buy...I trust your foraging so much !!
I don't know how to say this you're just phenomenal God bless you and all the knowledge you have thank you thank you thank you yeah that's how I just wanted to say that
Wel, now that you have shown me what wild greens are good to eat, it's time to try my hand at cooking them. And as a newbie wild greens cook, I'm excited to test each individual plant flavor and texture the way you have shown. I finally found I have the opium wild lettuce variety that is spreading throughout the garden. It needs cooking to keep it down some lol.
Anyhow, thanks so much for another great video that is helping me to shop local, aka, my yard:) And glad to see you have 25.9 subscribers, now your channel will really grow as word gets out!
P.S. I just signed on to Facebook and you will be the one and only link I will promote, well, hope to, I'm not that social:)
Excellent video I love it and I’m going to start picking my green and cook it but I will squeeze a lot of lemon and olive oil on top of it😋😋
Thank you , thank you so very much for sharing of your knowledge.
+webbsway You're welcome! There are so many plants out there that can be real food for regular people! I was fortunate to be taught to pick and eat weeds as a kid, and have enjoyed them ever since. I hope more people can learn how much food is all around them!
So awesome. ❤️
Excellent!
Love your videos. Thanks for sharing.😁
Glad you're enjoying my videos, Elizarobin. There are so many great weeds out there, just waiting for us. Every bowl of greens in this video was good eating, in its own way. Happy spring!
please do one on stinging nettles!
Enjoying your video's and subscribed. We do pressure can plantain, nettle and pineapple weed and would like to add more wild greens to it. In northern BC we have different greens and may find some from your video t o add to our menu. All the best.
Wow - what great videos you've created! I just learned so much from you -Thank you! I've been identifying and sampling small amounts of some of these, but really pussyfooting around, picking a few leaves at a time from each plant and adding them to salads, soups and casseroles. The way you went through your place like gangbusters, you've inspired me to get serious, pick lots, prep them and stash them away in my freezer while the growing is still good. Can't thank you enough! Subscribed and shared to Facebook as well.
+Rose Hilliard Thanks for the kinds words and sharing! I eat a lot of weeds! They can be real food for regular people! They are out there growing, on their own, no matter what we are doing. We just have to learn the details and then get to picking! I'd love to hear how you enjoy the weeds that you are eating!
Same here! Haha only dabbling really but still new to the wild edible world so I guess they say that's best anyway
We receive nasty letters from the fire dept if you keep long grass, i.e. lawn food. They will fine you very heavily. California was a cornucopia. Thanks for great vids, I love them and you would make a wonderful homestead mate :) awesome blossom!
gosh girl, thanks a whole bunch.
You're welcome. Every edible weed makes "greens" just a little bit differently. Trying them one by one, separately, is a good way to get to know them. And that helps in figuring out how to cook them, too. I hope you get to enjoy some weeds!
Can't wait to see some new videos. it's just a thing that may be necessary in the near future. nevertheless I just love eating the weeds🤗
Great video thank you!!! shared!
Another quality video. Thank you!
Amy Hawkins Thanks! Knowing how to prepare different weeds can be as important as identifying them correctly. None of these 10 weeds will be toxic if they are incorrectly prepared, but some will be, like poke, which needs that parboiling a couple times, and skunk cabbage, which has to be completely dried rather than boiled.
Good eating!
+neverdown222 Yep! All those weeds are real food for regular people! They are as good as anything in the store!
Thank you so much !! I really enjoy your videos and appreciate so much the information, knowledge experience and wisdom that you share with us !!😊
I live with my inlaws and they have so much edible greens and flowers and ugh such an abundance of free food! I cringe when they mow it all away 😫.
Would it be alright to just blanch them all at the same time, if your just gonna cook um all together anyway?
Thank you for a very informative video. I subbed your channel and hope you keep on making new videos.
LARK'S GARDENS Thanks! Wild greens are especially helpful while we're waiting for our garden plantings to mature. It's incredible how much there is out there! You can't buy 'em, but you can pick all you want for free!
Shared to Facebook as well. Hope it helps. You deserve millions of subs!
do you know of any methods to store the weeds while also preserving their nutrients?
I read that heat usually degrades the nutrient content, so if there's any way to avoid heat I would prefer that method.
thank you for the video!
+hello sir Heat affects some nutrients more than others. But there are a few options that are good for keeping the most nutrients -- freezing, dehydrating, and fermenting. For freezing, I treat the greens like any others - I blanch them for 2-3 minutes, cool them off, and freeze them, just like any other greens. My video on springtime collards shows the basics. Dehydrating is great, too, for greens that are not bitter enough to need any blanching. They dry pretty quick in a dehydrator. And then fermenting works great for greens that are substantial, like field mustard. Maybe I'll do a video for both of those last two ways. For any of the greens I showed in this video, I could have just put them in a bag in the freezer and they would be great! Hope that helps!
Thank you! Very informative videos. Maybe I missed this, but why do you parboil, dump the water and boil longer in fresh water? Is it because they're too bitter?
I had the same question and you likely know the answer by now, it's dreaded oxalic acid. If consumed too much it causes cyrstals to form in the bladder and it will hold less and less urine, I found out the hard way drinking raw spinach & wild green smoothies for a year.
OA also causes inflammation and other issues that are worth knowing. All greens have them, spinach & lambs quarters are very high! After my episode, thanks to Holly, I have learned to parboil. This removes most of the OA and makes the plant very edible and tastey. Happy harvesting!
The bitter greens are very good for digestion, dandelion help to detox the liver and kidneys.
This was great and very informative. Do you freeze your greens once processed/cooked?
Love your videos!!! Do you ever sauté them like spinach? As a southeast Asian, I love boiled greens also!
Thanks, Hua L! Yes, I like sauteed greens a lot. Some greens, if they are tender or the kind that don't get bitter with age, I will sautee directly, without any blanching. Other times, if the greens are bitter or tough with age, I'll blanch them first and then sautee them. If you have any easy-to-cook suggestions, let us all know in the comments, any time!
Haphazard Homestead Thank you for your response!!! I will definitely try your recipes. I love you videos/channel. Keep up the great work. Can’t wait to start foraging.
Haphazard Homestead I would love to try them in a salad (like the many wonderful ones you make, yum) or boil and eat as a side item and perhaps even stir fry with some meat. I’ve also been doing research on each plants nutritional value, and can’t wait to take my girls outside in search of our lunch.
Ive learned from make “horta” (literally “weeds” in greek) that a little bit of lemon juice and olive oil go a long way
That's a great tip about the lemon juice and olive oil, Zachary M, and your language lesson. It helps us all appreciate that weedy plants have been real food for regular people for a long time. Enjoy your "horta"! :D
They look good. Like spinach. Is it good with vinegar?
Yes, indeed, Lori Hunsaker! They all have their own, unique flavor, but any of these greens would be good with vinegar.
i imagine some of them would be good for stirfry, sandwich, salad or maybe cream soup
can you dehydrate dandelions and powder it to add to stuff? I can't do the texture of cooked greens. Was wondering if the vitamins would still be there if I dried it.
I heard that if we boil veges but open the lid , then vitamins will fly out , we will lose vitamins , right ? Thanks for sharing.
Hi I wrote to you about some leaves I thought was dock. You told me how to cook them. I only had a few leaves so I boiled them about10 minutes. The leaves turned that olive green color. The water was a yellowish color. After they cooked I tasted a small piece. There was no taste. Just bland. Seams safe to eat. Or mix with other greens.
Dock cook really fast, especially if they are young and tender leaves. They turn that olive green pretty quickly, don't they. I don't cook them very long, unless they are in soup or I've mixed them in with other vegetables. And sometimes, they don't have a strong taste. So I'm not surprised yours didn't have much flavor. Their bland flavor can be good for balancing out plants with stronger or more bitter flavors. That's typically how they are used.
Thank you for your return statement. I really appreciate your help on my dock leaves. I will be checking on your page for more up dates on different weeds. Margaret. N.C.
How many acres is your homestead Chris?
+kakasanti I live on 1.3 acres in Oregon's Willamette Valley. I'm surrounded by houses, but when I'm here, it feels like I'm in the country. I'm fortunate. There can be a lot of weeds on 1.3 acres! : ) Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thanks, very nice of you to reply.......I just clicked on the "about" section and noticed you said 1.3 acres.
+kakasanti Nice of you to watch my videos and look around on my channel! : )
What's the difference between boiling dandelion and just steaming it? Thank you.
That's a good question. I think boiling them leaches out more of the bitterness, compared to steaming. There are so many ways to cook dandelions, depending on their condition. I eat plenty of them, straight up raw, if they are lush and tender, like when they grow in the shade or tall grass. But the scrawny little dandelions, or even those lush and tender ones that eventually get stressed from the weather, won't be good to eat no matter what, not even boiled. This is a good topic for a future video -- so thanks!
How do you preserve them for winter? Can you?
Bought some wild lettuce supplements. They made me sleepy and dizzy. Do you know why they made me dizzy?
Wouldn't draining the water after boiling then boiling them again deplete the vitamins ?
can they be dried and ground?
and
do you lose nutrition from boiling them down?
See above I think that may answer your question. Some more than others it seems
Can u parboil or boil in chicken stock?
I shared ya on facebook. Maybe we can get ya some more lookers. :-)
***** Thanks! Maybe we can get more weed eaters!
I just fry dock greens
Yall say "dead nettle ".....
What about real "nettles ?
Thanks !
I dont even grow green i got enough wild greens
endive pronounced ahn-deev in french
Instead of boil it, just stir fry with herbs more delicious.