Grettings Hivers!
It's been a great week with lots of work and ideas of keeping myself busy, getting back in shape and get healthier. After I was finished with work, April's weather continued to go against me, several times today, but that didn't stop me.
Since end of February Dandelions have been on my menu at least 4x times a week, in a big bowl, mostly with cooked potatoes, egg and garlic ofcourse. I love it, actually in our family we were all crazy about it and ate huge quantities of it.
Lucky it's really healthy for us, has a ton of vitamins and a lot of medicine uses. I prefer it in salad, even better in a mixed salad!
This year I decided I want to teach myself how to hunt for Ramsons or Bear's garlic as I like to call it.
Yes I only tasted it a few times on rare occasions, I am aware that you can mistaken for other very simular plants that almost look alike. But as an experienced mushroom hunter I know that same applies to all mushrooms aswell.
If it doesn't smell good, it's definitely not good for you!
Bear's garlic / Wild garlic / Ramsons : is native from Europe to Asia, it's a wild relative of garlic and onion, it has a strong smell totaly like garlic and also tastes like one!
First few times I smelled each and every leaf and tasted every second one. I've hunted them several times now on my own, for myself and only on the same spot. Because I don't want to poison myself or anybody else until I'm 110% sure in what I'm gathering.
- I gather them always at same location, only pick them up max 1 meter away from a tiny water stream
- I observe and only look for Bear's garlic, use my smell and always taste at least one, before I start to gather
- only take as much as I will eat in next 3-4 days, because fresh is best!
- they grow from March to July
Always do your research before collecting plants / herbs like these, nature is beautiful, but also tricky and can be very poisonous!
And I'm definitely not an expert Herbalist!
Do you also gather any plants/herbs nature has to offer in Spring, maybe even for some tea ?
All photos were taken today, by me and my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge.
Thank you for your time, have a great weekend.
Happy, strong and healthy Easter everyone!
