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Elm samaras are edible, gourmet

May 5, 2016 By Erica M. Davis 6 Comments

It took a funny long while for me to try elm samaras for the first time. They are the papery, light green, immature fruits that form on elm trees before they start leafing out. If you live in a region where large Siberian Elm (Ulmus pumila) trees proliferate, the samaras are the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, featured, spring Tagged With: Colorado, Eastern Slope, edible, elm, salad, samara, Ulmus, Western Slope

Wild spring salad

May 13, 2014 By Erica M. Davis 1 Comment

Just when I think I know everything there is to know about wild mustards, I find another one to eat. This time, I am excited about tumblemustard (Sisymbrium altissimum), which you might know better as tumbleweed, because at maturity when it dries out it detaches from its stem and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, May, spring, useful info Tagged With: Brassica, Denver, foraging, mustard, orache, recipes, salad, salsify, tumble mustard, wild lettuce

Ready-made Road Trip Salad

May 7, 2013 By Erica M. Davis 1 Comment

We embarked on a road trip through Colorado, Utah, and Nevada to California’s Eastern Sierra last week. I had a lot of delicious wild greens on hand that I’d collected in Denver immediately prior, and I wanted to eat fresh salad for the duration of our journey through the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, May Tagged With: Colorado, dandelion, Denver, foraging, musk mustard, prickly lettuce, recipes, salad, salad dressing, wild onion

Two Variations on Marinated Dandelion Salad

September 27, 2010 By Erica M. Davis 2 Comments

Marinated dandelion salad option 2 involves French dressing.

Not to go overboard on the fall dandelions or anything, but last night’s fresh marinated dandelion salads came out so good and were so fast and easy to make that I figured I’d write up a short post about them. The recipes start out the same and then it is simply a matter of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, high altitude, recipes Tagged With: Colorado, dandelion, Denver, east coast, foraging, greens, introduced, New Hampshire, New York, non-native, Pennsylvania, recipes, Rocky Mountains, salad, urban foraging

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Spring foraging

Elm samaras are edible, gourmet

Spring into wintercress

Fun with wild waterleaf

Don’t forget the tumblemustard

Wild spring salad

Orache is a wild favorite

Cattail heart & tomato salads

Whitetop mustard bud clusters

Spring plant tour: Frisco, Colorado

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Samuel Thayer’s ‘Incredible Wild Edibles’

Hank Shaw’s ‘Buck, Buck, Moose’

Katrina Blair’s ‘Wild Wisdom of Weeds’

Thomas Elpel’s ‘Foraging the Mountain West’

Dina Falconi’s ‘Foraging & Feasting’

Ellen Zachos’ ‘Backyard Foraging’

Rebecca Lerner’s ‘Dandelion Hunter’

John Kallas’ ‘Edible Wild Plants’

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