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Post by kedigato on Feb 20, 2011 18:55:01 GMT
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsons This is a very tasty herb that can be used in many dishes and also used as a mild substitute for garlic. So, a nice addition to the herb garden if you are a garlic fan. I was lucky to find some potted a couple of years ago and planted it in the garden. Unfortunately, I think it is a bit too shady where I planted it as it has not done well, so I don't like to use the few leaves that do appear every year. It is the first herb that comes into season and now is the time. I must either give mine a good talking to, or better still, transplant it in a better position. Please read the above Wikipedia link - do not just go out in the woods and pick what you think might be it!
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Post by nazimundo on Feb 20, 2011 19:40:31 GMT
Kedi, this is what we call wild garlic, the woods beside us are full of it at the right time of year. Oddly, we've never eaten it although I once tried the bulbs and thought I'd poisoned myself. ;D ;D If you walk over it the smell is amazing but it is very slippery one fall and you stink of garlic for ages .As the season is coming round we must try it in cooking but we'll make sure it's the proper stuff
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Post by kedigato on Feb 20, 2011 20:43:34 GMT
You are lucky to have it growing right next to you in the woods. However, growing wild, I did read something somewhere about being careful to wash/cook it properly before using, due to the Fuchsbandworm/Fox Band Worm - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinococcus_multilocularis . It is the same with wild blackberries, every year when they come into season, warnings are in the newspapers about it. To think that as kids, and even as twens, we used to go blackberrying and eat nearly as many right off the bush as we put into the pails.  Anyway, I don't want to put you off and found this link with all sorts of yummy recipes on it and I intend to try some out. OK, my wee plant is in the garden and safe from foxes, but, as said, there is not enough to use yet. I do have a packet of dried store-bought flakes and I'll use that. uktv.co.uk/food/ingredient/aid/585886 |
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Post by nazimundo on Feb 20, 2011 21:33:53 GMT
Don't worry Kedi both Ann and I are used to " foraging for wild food" as we grew up doing it. All sorts of fruits and nuts as well as mushrooms.  Blackberries (brambles to us) crab apples (scroggies) hazel nuts, wild raspberries, sloes, wild plums but best of all field mushrooms. The best ever breakfast......... homemade sausage,fried bacon, an egg (collected from the nest still warm) fried, crisp fried bread, and a mountain of pink and white mushrooms picked just before cooking in the grease from the bacon ... I'm drooling just thinking about it.  As for where a fax has been you don't need to worry about that as you can smell them ages after they've gone (and what they leave behind) ;D |
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Post by nazimundo on Mar 26, 2011 21:42:10 GMT
How much wild garlic would you like kedi a lorry load, a plane load or a ship load, ;D ;D the woods here are full of it at the moment.    Alfie |
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Post by kedigato on Mar 27, 2011 7:31:46 GMT
What a wonderful sight! That is too much even for us, but you could pick it and go and sell it on the market, once you get the tetties in and have nothing else to do.  I really must see about moving our measly bit, it only produced one leaf this year so it obviously doesn't like where I planted it. I'm glad that I found it in flakes and also in a shaker with salt and parsley a couple of weeks ago so we have a bit of it at least. Thanks for sharing your Wild Garlic Woods with me. xx |
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Post by nazimundo on Mar 27, 2011 21:59:38 GMT
With a wife like Ann, when am I likely to have nothing to do ;D ;D I'm trying to get as much done as I can just in case they decide to send me for my op soon and will be ordering to wood for next winter tomorrow and will try to get as much as possible cut before I go to hospital
The wild garlic seems to like a shady place to grow Kedi
Alfie
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