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Sea buckthorns taste like ... sea buckthorns. Pure buckthorns are almost impossible to eat as they are very strong and sour. Some love them, most hate them. They are very healthy; in a single berry smaller than a half of a nail of your little finger there's more vitamin C than in big apple.
Howvers, they are such a PIA to pick as the bushes are full of thorns. Takes few days until your hands are used enough to pick berries. I've heard there's some techical innovations to help picking these but i've never tried any.
In general buckthorns grow only on a narrow coastline here, mostly on hard, rocky and windy shores. They do not success inlands. We have 'few' bushes on our property and they keep spreading more than necessary.
From one bush you get about 1/2 litres of pure juice, so we get about 20-30 litres annually. We freeze them into cubes and my wife also makes some jam, or dries some and mills into dry herbs. Howevers, i mix one ice cube of pure juice (must be 1-2 teaspoons) into 1 liter of water. Even that is pretty strong and sour but i like it.

And now as we are talking aboiut pancakes. After seeing your pics i guess i have to make some soon. As a dessert, with cream and berries.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

What are maple links, are they the sausages?
Looks tasty by the way.

Yes...maple flavored sausage links...not too shabby.....

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Did you warm the pancake plate? :-)

Stop or I will call your Mom and tell on you !

Originally Posted by Sailor

Sea buckthorns taste like ... sea buckthorns. Pure buckthorns are almost impossible to eat as they are very strong and sour. Some love them, most hate them. They are very healthy; in a single berry smaller than a half of a nail of your little finger there's more vitamin C than in big apple.
Howvers, they are such a PIA to pick as the bushes are full of thorns. Takes few days until your hands are used enough to pick berries. I've heard there's some techical innovations to help picking these but i've never tried any.
In general buckthorns grow only on a narrow coastline here, mostly on hard, rocky and windy shores. They do not success inlands. We have 'few' bushes on our property and they keep spreading more than necessary.
From one bush you get about 1/2 litres of pure juice, so we get about 20-30 litres annually. We freeze them into cubes and my wife also makes some jam, or dries some and mills into dry herbs. Howevers, i mix one ice cube of pure juice (must be 1-2 teaspoons) into 1 liter of water. Even that is pretty strong and sour but i like it.

And now as we are talking aboiut pancakes. After seeing your pics i guess i have to make some soon. As a dessert, with cream and berries.

That'll work....don't forgetthe Pics sir !. I'm off to work guys.....have an awesome day !

i have in the cupboard a litre of sea buckthorn gin i made last year. never tried it for breakfast yet though.

sailor i will prune the branches full of berries off, put them in a strong bag because of the spikes and stick the whole thing in the freezer overnight. the next morning the berries just shake right off.

Inspired by all of Ed's Chef cooked mining magnate meals, I said as a joke to my wife, in the most pompous voice I could manage "I see you've got bacon out for breakfast. I think I would like Eggs benedict with that thank-you!" Lo and behold...She actually had a go at it. Not perfect, but it was something new to both of us. We could feel the arteries clogging up with each bite, but it was really nice. . Oh yes, and that thing that looks like the sole of a kids shoe is what we call Hash Browns (shop bought). They taste very much like I imagine the sole of a shoe would taste and I've never liked them, but I always seem to end up with one or more on my plate when SWMBO cooks them.





Mick

Originally Posted by Sailor

Sea buckthorns taste like ... sea buckthorns. Pure buckthorns are almost impossible to eat as they are very strong and sour. Some love them, most hate them. They are very healthy; in a single berry smaller than a half of a nail of your little finger there's more vitamin C than in big apple.
Howvers, they are such a PIA to pick as the bushes are full of thorns. Takes few days until your hands are used enough to pick berries. I've heard there's some techical innovations to help picking these but i've never tried any.
In general buckthorns grow only on a narrow coastline here, mostly on hard, rocky and windy shores. They do not success inlands. We have 'few' bushes on our property and they keep spreading more than necessary.
From one bush you get about 1/2 litres of pure juice, so we get about 20-30 litres annually. We freeze them into cubes and my wife also makes some jam, or dries some and mills into dry herbs. Howevers, i mix one ice cube of pure juice (must be 1-2 teaspoons) into 1 liter of water. Even that is pretty strong and sour but i like it.

And now as we are talking aboiut pancakes. After seeing your pics i guess i have to make some soon. As a dessert, with cream and berries.

Buckthorn here in Minnesota is a BAD word. It is an invasive species that makes people cringe. But I am speaking about European and Glossy buckthorn.

A guy I work with was wondering around where the deer are in his woods there was much purple urine marks in the snow this spring. Whats wrong with the deer? The conclusion that we came up with is that they are eating buckthorn.

Originally Posted by 32t

I love the taste a little bitter to them but not very strong. They leave a lingering aftertaste. Mine are the common[at least around here] orange colored ones and I read that the different varieties taste different. I eat them just before the flower is to open. I usually grab them as I walk past the flower bed for a snack. They are about done for the year.

I went to visit Randydance yesterday and he had some yellow ones in his garden. He thought i was weird when I asked to sample the buds!!! I tried one and he did sample it. They were mild compared to the orange ones in my garden. I then pinched a couple of orange ones but then they had a curly type of flower. Those were also good but had a milder and different taste.

Originally Posted by MickR

Inspired by all of Ed's Chef cooked mining magnate meals, I said as a joke to my wife, in the most pompous voice I could manage "I see you've got bacon out for breakfast. I think I would like Eggs benedict with that thank-you!" Lo and behold...She actually had a go at it. Not perfect, but it was something new to both of us. We could feel the arteries clogging up with each bite, but it was really nice. . Oh yes, and that thing that looks like the sole of a kids shoe is what we call Hash Browns (shop bought). They taste very much like I imagine the sole of a shoe would taste and I've never liked them, but I always seem to end up with one or more on my plate when SWMBO cooks them.





Mick

I do not eat mining magnates. Sounds like jelousy to me, I think I have said it before meals are a bit of a highlight of the day, though today it will be my shave for sure as it is musical acompanyment day. That's where they get us a band of our choice (resurected if required) to enteratain us, will either get leonard Cohen or the Flaming lips. Only kidding I have to use my mp3 player.
Glad you enjoyed it, though I don't know what you have against.hash browns, you could always drown it in some sort of Condiment. That bacon looks good, I like bacon that looks as done as that.

Well I most certainly did drown the hash browns in a respectable tomato sauce, Heinz I believe. As for mining magnates, you eat as many of them as you can, but I think they might taste like snot bags too, so don't give yourself a tummy ache!

Bring on the Leonard Cohen...Hard to believe I thought the man a total psychopath when I first heard his music...Well that hasn't changed, but I like his music much better now. I must have gotten used to it. Don't cut the wires to the ear buds on the ATG pass mate. Terrible when that happens!

That bacon, thanks to my lovely wife, was cooked to total perfection. She knows I like to hear some feeble oink's, bleat's or moo's coming from my animal products .


Mick

Originally Posted by MickR

Well I most certainly did drown the hash browns in a respectable tomato sauce, Heinz I believe. As for mining magnates, you eat as many of them as you can, but I think they might taste like snot bags too, so don't give yourself a tummy ache!

Bring on the Leonard Cohen...Hard to believe I thought the man a total psychopath when I first heard his music...Well that hasn't changed, but I like his music much better now. I must have gotten used to it. Don't cut the wires to the ear buds on the ATG pass mate. Terrible when that happens!

That bacon, thanks to my lovely wife, was cooked to total perfection. She knows I like to hear some feeble oink's, bleat's or moo's coming from my animal products .


Mick

Best for me to withdraw from the mining magnate conversation, they have ears everywhere you know.
Heinz was a good choice, nicer than rosella from what I remeber, I think we have both in the condiment fridge, I might get a bit of both and compare.
I find lennie someone I can listen to over and over, there is a lot of beauty there, and I find that it creates some really nice aural imagery.
Got a steak the other night that was much rarer than I would normally order, pretty much only cooked through the first couple of mm, (Carl that is between 1/16 and 1/8 of an inch :-), it was fairly good, as long as I didn't look at it too closely, normally prefer it when its pink in the middle rather than red, but it wasn't bloody, that I would have struggled with.