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Purslane chilaquiles

June 28, 2012 Erica M. Davis 2 Comments

Chilaquiles are a favorite way to use leftover tortilla chips in my house, and the wild vegetable purslane (Portulaca oleracea), or "verdolagas" in Spanish, have long been used in Mexican cuisine to accent them. If you don’t know purslane already, you should. This garden weed … [Read more...]

edible, food, June, summer Colorado, foraging, purslane, recipes, Rocky Mountains

Mint madness

June 15, 2012 Erica M. Davis 5 Comments

There’s nothing like accompanying your boyfriend to a work meeting expecting to sit idly by and instead being invited to forage the back yard. “I’ll weed your garden while I wait,” I offered to his new web client, glancing hungrily at the carpet of young goosefoot (Chenopodium … [Read more...]

edible, June, summer Colorado, foraging, mint, New York, Rhus, squawbush, wildcrafting

Stir Fry on the Wild Side

June 29, 2011 Erica M. Davis Leave a Comment

A delicious and attractive wild stir fry.

Yesterday I experienced the somewhat unique problem of having too many bags of wild edible plants in my refrigerator and not enough “normal” food with which to make lunch. So I improvised—and it worked out surprisingly well. When In Doubt, Stir Fry  My most successful stir … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude, June bluebell, Colorado, fireweed, foraging, mertensia, recipes, Rocky Mountains, yucca

Crazy for cow parsnip

June 19, 2011 Erica M. Davis 4 Comments

I gathered some cow parsnip a few days ago on June 15th. It’s still young in the high country (at 10,500 feet), so I just took a little—a few snips here and there of furled, unfurling, and newly unfurled woolly green leaves and petioles (leaf stalks), from a community of plants, … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude, June, summer Colorado, cow parsnip, foraging, Rocky Mountains

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