Edible wild flowers add fun colors to raw salads, but they can also be added to pancake or fritter batter and fried. My friend Margot and I tried this with an assortment of mallow, dandelion, day lily and everlasting pea flowers recently. The fritters came out pretty well! But first we were sure to have [...]
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Flower Fritters
Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged dandelion, day lily, everlasting pea, Mallow on July 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Day One: Medicinal food and supernatural berries
Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged Chestnuts, figs, hawthorn berries, Mallow, pine needles, rose hips, Wild Food Week on November 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Rinsing hawthorn berries I started the day with a nourishing tea made of pine needles, rose hips, mint and mallow greens, all gathered within a half block of my apartment in the city. It was more like a broth than a tea, because mallow has a gooey quality that thickened the mixture and gave it [...]
Mallow: Cheesewheels that taste like cheese!
Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged Eat Weeds, Mallow on September 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Emily and I found these mallow flowers near a bike trail in the Sellwood neighborhood of Portland. The fruits of the mallow plant look like little cheesewheels and, in a fun burst of irony, really do taste like cheese! This isn’t the season to harvest roots, but if you did, you’d notice that Mallow root [...]
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