Dandelions & green smoothies

Yes, you read it right, dandelion leaf green smoothie!

Dandelions are rather bitter, but if picked early spring,

or before they flower they're considered to be some

what sweet...we tried them this morning, and

well, I wouldn't call them sweet but most definitely

not as bitter as the last year when

we tasted them.

I came across the Raw Family site and

read how they use wild edible weeds as their greens

for their green smoothies, so knowing what a great

powerful green plant dandelions were and

how reasonably priced they were (huh, free for the picking!)

I decides that we were going harvesting this morning,

to find sweet dandelion leaves.

We harvested our leaves, prepared them for

blending added 2 cups of water,

handful of dandelion leaves,

2 bananas

agave nectar

some ice

and BLENDED away...

The recipe called for apples we didn't have any on hand,

so we used agave nectar....

You know I think with the apples we would have

a keeper here!!

Not bad at all, I can't say it was delicious but really

not bitter! sweet and enjoyable.

One thing about green smoothies my body

loves them, within 30 minutes

I felt, what I call the green rush, my

body was happy! energetic,

and very fulfilled!

Tonight were gonna add apples to the

green smoothie and I'll let

your know the difference.

For this family, yes we will be adding

green dandelion smoothies to

our weekly consumptions

of green drinks :-D

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LATER in the evening:

we used apples and a pear in the

dandelion green smoothie this

evening...very good!!

Yes, we will be using

dandelions in our

smoothies!!

It's a Keeper!!

Wild Violet Nori Roll

The nori rolls were wonderful!! We are definately doing these again!! If you come across some wild violets (make sure you id them correctly) think about trying them in a nori roll :-D

Spring and wild plants everywhere!

Now that it's spring I'm hoping for an abundance of discoveries and with it, more post :-D

A few days ago we came across a large patch of violets, I didn't know if they were edible so we had to leave them, then last night I came across this video:



So, I went to the store and picked up an avocado, tomato, lime, and a package of nori sheets.
tomorrow if the weather permits were going to go find some violet and have ourselves a nori roll. I'll post more on it after we actually have our roll.