Dinner From The Wild
Garlic Mustard Haiku
by C J Gregory
problematic weed
invasive garlic mustard
scrumptious consumption
Garlic Mustard Pesto Recipe
Makes about 2 cups
10 cups loosely packed garlic mustard leaves
1/2 cup pine nuts
2 cloves garlic
1/2 cup finely grated Parmesan cheese
1 cup extra-virgin olive oil
Pulse the pine nuts and garlic in a food processor ,. Add the garlic mustard greens and cheese and pulse until smooth; then, with the motor running, slowly pour the oil through the spout. Season with salt and pepper.
Toss the pesto with pasta and a 1/4 cup of pasta-cooking water, or spread, as is, on crusty bread.
G Brown
Loc: Sunny Bognor Regis West Sussex UK
There seems to be a world wide interest in 'wild eating'. Everything from sea weeds to hedgerow plants. Which is great - so long as people understand that in order to pick them they need a good identification guide. Most of the interest comes from 'city folk' who may think a discarded milk crate is a cows nest, sugar is mined and egg plants produce eggs.
be aware of what you eat - and who's picking it.
Profg wrote:
Dinner From The Wild
Garlic Mustard Haiku
by C J Gregory
problematic weed
invasive garlic mustard
scrumptious consumption
Garlic Mustard Pesto Recipe
Makes about 2 cups
10 cups loosely packed garlic mustard leaves
1/2 cup pine nuts
2 cloves garlic
1/2 cup finely grated Parmesan cheese
1 cup extra-virgin olive oil
Pulse the pine nuts and garlic in a food processor ,. Add the garlic mustard greens and cheese and pulse until smooth; then, with the motor running, slowly pour the oil through the spout. Season with salt and pepper.
Toss the pesto with pasta and a 1/4 cup of pasta-cooking water, or spread, as is, on crusty bread.
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I had never heard of garlic mustard greens. Do you forage or grow them, or do you have some kind of market that sells them?
JohnSwanda wrote:
I had never heard of garlic mustard greens. Do you forage or grow them, or do you have some kind of market that sells them?
It grows wild in my backyard....
Here is a link about it....
http://www.ediblewildfood.com/garlic-mustard.aspx
Garlic Mustard was brought over from Europe for gardens as it is one of the first greens to grow in the spring. Tastes like it sounds. It is considered an invasive plant (it displaces native plants)., At the Nature Preserve that I manage we filled about 5 large garbage bags of the stuff a couple weeks ago.
I'd be willing to try the stuff, but I have a feeling it doesn't grow this far south.
I would want to be sure I picked the right thing though.
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