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Garlic mustard for salad, soups, herbal butter, pesto...
Alliaria petiolata, or garlic mustard One more plant for my salad, soups, herbal butter, pesto. The name indicates the taste - garlic mustard. And the taste indicates it’s medicinal benefits. As I eat raw plants to retain health and strengthen my immune system, this is a proper one for me. So far I have not tasted the…
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Lady’s bedstraw Galium verum
Lady’s bedstraw (Galium verum), goosegrass, cleavers (Galium aparine) The young shoots of these herbs are also added to my salad, herbal butter and curd. Some of them are a real pest to gardeners during summer time, when one has to weed them out of vegetable beds. The more one eats out in spring, the less one has to weed…
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Hairy Bittercress (Cardamine hirsuta) a new herb for my salads, herbal butter and soups
Hairy Bittercress (Cardamine hirsuta) a new herb for my salads, herbal butter and soups This one I have always weeded out until one day I tasted it. Rather sharp, but pleasantly sharp. Well, it belongs to the same family like rocket or radish, so no wonder. It is a tiny plant. Sometimes not bigger than a hand. In spring…
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Wild spring herb soup recipe
Many know green nettle soup. This is another option to obtain the power of spring herbs with the meal. “Green soup” recipe It is a traditional soup in Tirol and is prepared and eaten on fasting days and especially on a Thursday before Easter - Maundy Thursday. It is believed that herbs give strength. Spring has power of…
