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Eating Weeds

"You're feeding us weeds??!!" screamed my husband.

"Yep."

Here are photos of the milkweed flower buds after I boiled them.
 For the recipe:  Crustless Milkweed Flower Quiche

 Just before it went into the oven
After this went into the oven, I found out I may want to coarsely chop the buds.  That will be for the next time.
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Candy C. said…
Hmmm, they look kinda like peas! Tell us, how did it taste and what did your husband think?
July 5, 2011 at 3:13 PM
Pioneer Woman at Heart said…
He's been bragging to people what I've been up to lately. Ha ha ha! It really didn't have much of a taste to them. I mostly tasted the eggs and cheese. I make an egg quiche with chilies and cottage cheese, so we loved the texture.
July 5, 2011 at 4:52 PM
The 3 Foragers said…
We don't snip theflower buds apart like that. I cook the whole cluster like a broccoli flowerette, then coarsely chop the cluster. Ot is much easier to just cook up the whole cluster, I would be afraid I would lose all the flower buds otherwise!
July 5, 2011 at 8:02 PM
Pioneer Woman at Heart said…
Thanks for the advice. I will have to keep making this now, and follow your directions on keeping them in clusters, then chop them. I have purchased a book on foraging also.
July 6, 2011 at 11:05 AM
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