Thread: just wanted to share tonight's dinner with you guys..

Originally Posted by gugi

yep, same thing, but I don't trust the soil around my house here so I buy it in dried form:


Fresh is better though, so you should try it I like it in salad as well - you have to salt it and then roll it a bit so that it doesn't sting when you eat it - then I use just oil+lemon juice or may be simply mix it with yogurt and that's it

The soup I make the simplest way you can imagine - put a pot of water on the stove, cut half an onion and a carrot in it, threw a bunch of the nettle and some rice and quinoa and 15-20 minutes later it's done and I stirred in an egg mixed in a cup or so of yogurt. Salt to taste can go in at any point

I own an acre or two of this stuff. You are welcome to come and help yourself!

LOL, don't mind if I do if I pass by your neighborhood

The local store used to stock some really nice imported cheeses with nettle, gouda and something else from either the Netherlands or Denmark, but haven't seen those in few years.
I think nettle is in the old-timey foods in every culture since it grows everywhere, is edible and very nutritious, with relatively mild herbaceous taste.
Even my american friends who are suspicious and skeptical about anything that isn't chicken/beef and potatoes from a supermarket found the taste pretty ok when I've had them try it

Over 40 years ago I remember pulling nettles out by the roots and pretending they were German grenades.....

A lot of the food that i find mentioned here is from the "olden" times. We are trying to survive and I don't care what it tastes like.
Who in the heck would even try to eat nettles unless they had to????

Well, nettles are easy, my big question has always been who though first that eating spoiled milk may be a good idea. And many generations later I cannot imagine life without cheeses

Originally Posted by gugi

Well, nettles are easy, my big question has always been who though first that eating spoiled milk may be a good idea. And many generations later I cannot imagine life without cheeses

They had to eat spoiled milk or they died. Thank goodness it worked out!

Yeah, we'll never know what other things they tried that didn't end up that well.

Oh, and knowing how the wines I am partial to are grown and made, I don't think I'd be much into whatever Jesus was drinking - way too hot in his part of the world to produce the good stuff, the occasional miracle excepted of course

I have heard feed it to your pig. Pigs are close to humans in their digestive area. If they can eat it we can.

Originally Posted by 32t

A lot of the food that i find mentioned here is from the "olden" times. We are trying to survive and I don't care what it tastes like.
Who in the heck would even try to eat nettles unless they had to????

I would, grows like wildfire here. Spent the last 25 years weed eatin it, and keeping the children, and now the grandchildren away from it. It is funny you say that, the cheap cuts of meat when I was young, like lamb shanks, tongue, sweet breads, liver and kidney are now expensive and sought after. I remember my mother deep frying sheep brains in thick batter quite often, absolutely delicious, impossible to get.

Originally Posted by 32t

A lot of the food that i find mentioned here is from the "olden" times. We are trying to survive and I don't care what it tastes like.
Who in the heck would even try to eat nettles unless they had to????

Nettles are very old and traditional food here. Popular as a tea.
But not so unusual in our cuisine. And very healthy they are with lot of vitamin C.
And not only as food. many wild plants have some use as medical purposes too.

Use it as spinach: You can make soup, stew, sauce or pancakes. Very tasty with various fish and meat.
And what is best: it grows almost everywhere and is free.

You need only to treat the nettles in boiling salty water for about 1 minute to stop them from biting.