Did you know that you can eat dandelions? Not just the greens, mind you — the pesky little yellow flowers themselves?
Did you know that you can eat dandelions? Not just the greens, mind you — the pesky little yellow flowers themselves?
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• Ingredient Study: Miso from Restaurant Widow. Also check out her recipe for Sweet Miso Glazed Pork.
• Mint green "Pod" tea towels from Denmark.
we have a bunch of dandelions out front! I am so making this tomorrow!
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I just made dandelion jelly this past week
http://freedom.theswartfamily.com/2008/05/dandelion-jelly/
It is delicious, let me tell you, with almost a honey-ish flavour to it, very light and subtle.
For anyone who tries harvesting the dandelion petals, make sure you don't get the green part (it is very bitter). The easiest way I found was to break the flower in half and run my fingernail along the base of the petals to detach the petals from the sepal.
Also, be careful for those of you who have hayfever. I didn't have problems eating it, but after working bare-handed with the dandelion petals for an extended period of time I developed a contact dermatitis on my fingers.
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