Made some chickweed and wood sorrel pesto! Freshly picked right from our yard!!! Cant wait to make this our regular, i also pick some dandelions for salad and young broad leaf plantain leaves to dry for later use.
So excited to use it for supper with spaghetti and garlic bread this evening!

Recipe:
Cup of fresh chickweed
Two springs of wood sorrel
Table spoon of basil
Two table spoons of garlic
Pinch of salt
Equal parts olive oil to green ingredients

There Is much more variety of “weeds” plants and herbs to try growing in my yard. Wish me luck! And if you can try some foraging this summer!

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Increasingly becoming one of my favorite things to forage: curly dock seeds (Rumex crispus). Removing the chaff and prepping them for sprouting is a bit painstaking and tedious, but they’re incredibly delicious, and the effort is very rewarding.

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Crabapples four ways! Links to corresponding projects below. I still have more in the freezer from this past season. I think a bourbon-crabapple syrup sounds like a tasty experiment to try next. 😉

Paste: https://pixelfed.social/p/smwalker/529733616625710289

Jelly: https://pixelfed.social/p/smwalker/529387688225437630

Pickled: https://pixelfed.social/p/smwalker/469886761147390382

Butter: https://pixelfed.social/p/smwalker/468058312800927019

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Crabapple paste. A twist on membrillo/quince “cheese.” Cook down 1-to-1 by weight crabapple purée (make sure there’s still some juice present) and sugar to a thick paste. You could add a little lemon juice too. Transfer to a pan with parchment paper to let dry/set. Then cut into pieces. I rolled mine in sugar afterwards as well. Great as a tart, sugary treat. Also delicious with cheese and crackers.

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I’m obsessed with the color of the strained crabapple juice! The final jelly is beautiful too. And the taste matches correlating expectations. 😋

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Second attempt came out much better! See process and first experiment with curly dock sprouts here: https://pixelfed.social/p/smwalker/507204397420153986

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The young leaves of Rumex crispus (curly dock) are great in a salad, but I wanted to experiment a bit this season with the seeds. Most people who forage this part of the plant grind the seeds into a flour to use for crackers or alongside other flours for various baked goods. But those same people also remark on its bitterness in those applications. I’ve been sprouting seeds and beans at home all year and have been thinking about how I can make that a more sustainable practice (such as foraging my own seeds to sprout), so I figured it would be a worthwhile experiment to see how well curly dock seeds sprout (and how good they taste!). Especially since curly dock grows all over the place out here, often ignored and/or disdained. And it was a success! These photos are in reverse order: days 7, 5, 3, 1, and an initial shot of the seeds/chaff. They took a few days longer than the commercial blends I usually sprout, so I might try a longer soak at first to help with that next time. The flavor is great. Sweeter and not as bitter compared to commercial blends, which took me by surprise. They’re delicate. And a little stringy, but I usually find that to be the case with smaller seeds anyway. And these seeds are quite small. Winnowing didn’t do a whole lot to separate the chaff entirely (maybe too much static between the buckets I was using?), but I found that stirring them in water after rubbing them between my hands helped: most of the seeds sank and the chaff floated to the top. A combination of various sieves might work next time as well. Anything to help catch the papery chaff and let the tiny seeds fall through without too much additional debris.

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Sumac gummies. Topped with sumac sugar. I added some cane sugar to my prepared sumac water, boiled with agar-agar, and let it set before cutting into pieces. It’s tasty! But I think next time I’ll add more cane sugar to the water and roll the pieces in the sumac sugar instead of sprinkling it on top. Next on the agenda: sumac syrup. 😋 https://pixelfed.social/p/smwalker/482975930293926306

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