This weekend I slipped on some gardening gloves, grabbed a pair of scissors and went foraging for nettles. Not sure about the legality of taking a bag of nettles out of a Seattle park, but they sure tasted good and the price was right. ;)

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Comments

dhammy

March 11 at 2010 at 1:20 PM

That’s cool! I had no idea you could eat those things or that you would want to. Your reference page says they are high in a lot of great vitamins.

How do they taste?

MAS

March 11 at 2010 at 4:25 PM

Like a cross between spinach and seaweed. Add salt.

MAS

March 11 at 2010 at 4:27 PM

Nettles do have stingers, so it is pretty labor intensive to pick, clean and blanch. It won’t be a diet staple, but something to have a few times a year.

dhammy

March 11 at 2010 at 6:35 PM

Oh, I’ve been stung by the damn things many times. So, eating them could be construed as some sort of revenge?

MAS

March 11 at 2010 at 7:21 PM

Absolutely. When nature rubs you the wrong way, grab your fork. ;)

Mlis

March 11 at 2010 at 8:46 PM

Has someone been listening to Splendid Table? That was a topic discussed last weekend.

MAS

March 11 at 2010 at 8:49 PM

Actually I never heard of the show. I may be the only person in Seattle that doesn’t listen to public radio, but now that I canceled my XM that may change.

Mike

March 22 at 2010 at 3:53 AM

As to the nettles…make sure you eat the roots too. That’s where the beneficial plant sterols that help with BPH live. “Phytomedicine 2007 Aug; 14 (7-8) 568-79”