new goal: learning to "eat my yard"

[MamaRoo]

Try cutting the dandelion plants off at the surface and see if you can get tender new leaves growing in.You can also eat the flowers: dandelions

 

[Amastacia]

Never heard of eating daylilies, learn something new every day.

The only thing I know about lilies is that they are toxic to cats.

daylilies only. asiatic or tiger lilies are toxic, but daylilies are almost entirely edible (worth eating or not is a different story).

 

[TeaChick]

I understand that daylilies are edible. Roses are too; in fact, plants like blackberry, raspberry, apples, citrus, and several others are all technically rose plants; petals in multiples of five and thorns and "toothed" leaves. Thorns can be hybridized out of them, but they're part of the package naturally.

 

[Czech's_chicks]

Don't know if you have this one or not, but I just found it: http://whatscookingamerica.net/EdibleFlowers/EdibleFlowersMain.htm

I have the same goal, so I started really looking around the yard at what needs to go. There are things I could keep, like the juniper, but that's a stretch just for the berries. Instead of getting rid of the trees I don't care for, I'm going to get vines to grow up them, like passiflora that have edible fruit. I really like the edible flowers because they serve 2 functions - edible and functional by drawing in beneficial bugs for pollination. Love anything that can multitask!

 

[Amastacia]

we determined that lambsquarter goes quite well in salads. it is similar to spinach in texture but not as strongly flavored. it is also incredibly nutritious. and i have so much of it in my garden that i'm still treating it like a weed in most areas. so now i need to learn how to cook it.

my daylilies started blooming yesterday, so i should probably harvest some buds while there are enough to make it worth while. i am going to try and stir fry them for dinner tonight.

 

[TeaChick]

Speaking of daylilly buds, I saw on a cooking show (I think it was Hell's Kitchen) someone stuffed them with something like lobster salad (might have been some other kind of seafood), but I thought that sounded good. You might be able to find something if you search for a recipe. I like ixquick for searching b/c it's private and Google saves your info and puts stuff on your computer.
Anyway, I thought that might help.

 

[Amastacia]

well, stir fried daylily buds are quite tasty. we even used bok choi out of our garden with it. now i need to try daylily tubers and apparently their flowers can be used as a thickener, which i want to try too.

 

[TeaChick]

well, stir fried daylily buds are quite tasty. we even used bok choi out of our garden with it. now i need to try daylily tubers and apparently their flowers can be used as a thickener, which i want to try too.

How do you use their flowers as a thickener? (I assume you mean in place of cornstarch or flour, etc, right?)
I don't think I could get my DH to eat the flowers. lol
Maybe?

 

[mlbowers]

I applaud you! Let us know if you find anything really yummy!

 

[Amastacia]

How do you use their flowers as a thickener? (I assume you mean in place of cornstarch or flour, etc, right?)
I don't think I could get my DH to eat the flowers. lol
Maybe?

i don't know how to use them as a thickener yet, i need to look into it some more, but yeah, in place of cornstarch or flour. apparently it is a traditional thickener in a lot of oriental cooking, from before corn and wheat were introduced to that part of the world.