Giving Wild Foods a Try

I listen to a lot of podcasts, I am interested in permaculture, Homesteading and becoming Self-Reliant. As my curiosity deepens in that sphere, I naturally want to learn how to foraging!

Foraging to eat healthy... What about preparing a meal?

Of course there is an enormous amount of information and recipes for wild foods, and as I was walking across one end of our property I cbewed on a couple plantain leaves. The right leaves taste like something between a radish and a lemon, yummy!

Why not make a tasty breakfast for the family with plaintain, I thought?

So I looked quickly for a recipe and collected a couple handfuls of plantain leaves. Most recipes called for boiling the leaves and than shocking them in cold water, this helps keep a bright green color.

We have limited water, so in order to wash the leaves I soakes them a while to get any dirt off of them. Instead of boiling, I went with sautéing them with oil and a little salt and pepper. Before they melted away to nothing I pulled them off the fire and served them on a plate with our eggs wich I had cooked with wild scallions.

It was a lot better raw!!!

It wasn't bad, but it was too rough and bacame very bitter, like collard greens!

I'll try again, but next time as a salad or boiled and I will look into recipes a bit deeper too.

I'm just learning the ropes, so please send your skills my way if you don't mind, I'm ready to try new things!!!