really old style living?

NualaBuala

Well I caved in the other day and got fish and chips. Trying hard to be good but it's soooo hard! I might have to be good tonight, was hoping there would be no Halloween callers and I could eat all the Haribos myself but have had 4 "hobos" who were just wearing tracksuits and hoodies. They were quite young so I let them away with that but in future will they will need to make more effort to prise the sweeties away from me.

mardatha wrote: »

Has anybody tried cooking with dandelions or chickweed or things like that ?

I have put young dandelion leaves in a stirfry and used them in salads. They were quite like spinach if I remember rightly. I wonder would the older ones be a bit too tough and kaley for you? I saw the flowers being used in fritters on telly but looked a bit of a faff.

Ginny, great news about your DD's job!

ceridwen

Well - when I tried those dandelion heads in pancakes and decided not to bother in future - then, from memory, I think it was supposed to be dandelion fritters originally, but I gave way to the "too much faff" idea. Hence the pancakes.

Might be different if someone tried the fritters. BUT - either way - those dandelion heads need to have only JUST been picked (ie not picked and then carried round in a carrier bag for a couple of hours before I brought them home with me.....).

ceridwen

Hmmm...on a slightly different tack - I've just read:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1325283/Police-given-diversity-handbook-guide-arresting-witch.html

Well - that should settle that little question about "What on earth do I say to any police officer who finds me out in the countryside foraging with my knife in hand?" Answer "Its an athame officer - now have you been reading your diversity handbook?"

:rotfl::rotfl:

mardatha

:rotfl:I dono who's the daftest - the "witches" or the cops!

ceridwen

You won't be wanting any of the mushrooms I seem to be inadvertently growing then in the garden Mardatha? - to try out for any hallucinatory effects....:rotfl:I think they're magic mushrooms - well the last lot were (ie that came up elsewhere in my garden). Not sure about these - they're small, brown, floppy - but with flat tops and a sort of "milled" edging on top.

Don't think I'll risk eating them somehows - just in case....:cool:

(note to self - ceridwen maintain that "discretion is the better part of valour" stance and DONT ask the friend who identified them for you just how he knows.....)

mardatha

No. Life itself is weird enough for me without magic mushrooms ta

RAS

seasalt wrote: »

have just been out to the garden to scrape together some greenery and as my lambs lettuce, mizuna and winterpurslane is still under net (with the brassicas) which is a faff to lift and replace in a hurry, my main "mild" ingredient to go with rocket, landcress and parsley, is erm, chickweed!

I recommend hairy bittercress if you find that - it started growing in my lawn having come from nowhere and I have now persuaded it to grow on the plot instead although it has just gone to seed. It is really useful in February and March.

Also try salad burnet, although only the newest leaves as it gets stringy quickly.

RAS

mardatha wrote: »

No. Life itself is weird enough for me without magic mushrooms ta

Agree, although the big problem with them is that they give a lot of people stomach ache. Even when only taken in smal portions wedged in between a couple of doorstops.

ginnyknit

And when taken without knowing they make you skip down the road We have mushrooms growing outside the front door round a tree! Dont think I will try them tho, not upto skipping today :rotfl:

ChocClare

If anyone can think of anything (clean) to do with buttercups, please let me know, as I seem to be digging up millions of the little darlings...

Your Daily Mail article was enlightening, ceridwen - articles such as this remind me why we don't have this paper in the house :rotfl:

I love the way they name the "unlikely" religions - from er, atheism (have I spelt that right?? :rotfl:) to Zoroastrianism, druidism and shamenism...

Zoroastrianism is the oldest received religion in the world - it's what the Three Wise Men who visited the infant Jesus were - nice of them to lump it in with beliefs they clearly think laughable just because it conveniently begins with a Z...

That said, if you read the comments at the bottom about 8 pages on the "beliefs of atheists" and the fact that they "don't have places of worship", it makes better reading than the main article