Wednesday, May 28, 2014

May Sallet of Wild Greens

A May Sallet of Wild Greens
by Lady Esther
Used for May 2012 Cooks Guild Meeting

This month I asked the ladies in Cooks Guild to come over and do the very period task of foraging for
salad greens. We went into my back yard (more like back jungle of weeds) and I was surprised to find
out that most of what was growing wild was edible. To the purchased salad mix I had gotten we added some dandelion leaves, wild mustard plant, leaves of common mallow which I grew up only knowing as morning glory and a lot of lambs quarters, plus the seeds of a type of grass. Lady Ellie added some of the herbs she had brought and I had some peas. Although not seasonal we also added some carrot and celery slices. I have been eating this “salad of weeds” for almost a week now in several variations and it is perhaps the best salad I've ever eaten. We dressed it with extra-virgin olive oil, white wine vinegar and kosher salt.

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