Here is a link to Susun Weed's website: www.susunweed.com.

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lc since 12/18/01

ohh that tree was wonderfull i used to ride horses all day in the summer and would get a little hunger woul ride to that tree ohh i wish there was some way to figure out what kind they were. i always found it strange how the fruit was only tastfull every other year...


quick question. I have some strawberries that are going bad im wondering... since their seeds are on the fruit... if by tossing them in to my flower bed anyone think i would end up w/ strawberries???? i know its a giant wish but hey gota ask!!

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Why not try it? If the alternative is throwing them out, you might as well do the experiment.

Alice

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I don't know, maybe we have a different variety of wild strawberries in the yard. They are definitey icky. The birds won't even eat them. As for throwing your rotting strawberries in the dirt Gilley, it's worth a try. What have you got to lose? If anything they will compost nicely. But I doubt they will do anything since most commercial berries are hybrids. Alice, mixing in coconut oil is a brilliant idea!!! (knocking me upside the head-I wish I'da thunk that one up!!!) I'm gonna steal your idea!!!! Plantain salve, here we come!!!!

Maggie, the morel pix you posted in the fauxtato thread a fantabulous, you should post them here too!!!

With all this foraging knowledge we are accruing, we could do our own US Survivor version. And BTW, if I were to do Survivor, I would research wild foods in the tropics, for sure!!! I'll bet there's WAY more food growing in the ground that those guys could forage if they'd only done their research.

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OK, the morel pic is attached here.

Re: wild strawberries - my only experience with them was cosmic. My DH#3 and I were wandering around a farm (with permission) sometime around his b'day (in July). Coming from a wooded area into an open space, we found a veritable carpet of wild strawberries. They were the most delicious fruit I ever tasted! We wound up making our way across the opening pretty much on the crawl, eating our way from one side to the other.

Wild fruits have been my favorites - at least in the "olden" (pre-lc) days. We have wonderful wild grapes here in upstate NY and one of my favorite jellies to make was elderberry-sumac. I'd make the sumac juice with a cheesecloth technique (but not so much as to require a washing machine, as Gibbons did! LOL!) then boil and strain the elderberries. The jelly that I made from the combined juices was a claret color and the perfect balance of sweet and tart.

I wonder if I can make a lc version? Could happen.


(awe, shoot. I guess there's a limit on bandwidth for attachments, too! Geeeze, I must have exceeded it with one lousey attachment. Here's a link to the post with the morels in it. http://www.lowcarbeating.com/bb/show...7&postcount=33

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Loved the morel pic, Maggie.

Alice

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lc since 12/18/01

Heh, if my wild s-berries were that tasty, you'd see me on my hands and knees in my yard, ALL the time!!!! LOL. We have two grape vines (which I have sorely neglected in the last 2 years) one concord and one some kind of green. They have HUGE seeds and are very sweet/tart. I made regular white jelly from the green ones one year. It was the BEST jelly I've ever tasted. I don't know if the lack of refined sugar would affect the action of pectin???? Hmmm. Will have to try it this late summer and see what happens. what the heck, it won't cost me much. I already have canning jars, just need to buy some pectin. (Sure Gel or something like that.) I wonder if a combo of Xanthan Gum and gelatin would work. Oh and I have LOADS of wild blackberries growing all over the place too. I should try making jelly with those too. I made a really good Ice Cream sauce one year, trying to make jelly, but it didn't gel up. So IC sauce it was.

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Barb - I think regular pectin requires sugar to work. There is an alternative pectin that (if I remember correctly) uses a calcium salt instead of sugar to gel.

In Fran McCullough's "Low-carb Cookbook," page 35, there's a recipe for strawberry jam that calls for "no-sugar pectin such as Kerr Fruit Pectin Lite."

In Karen Rysavy's "Cooking TLC," there's a fruit jelly recipe that uses gelatin.

Right now I'm slurping down a nourishing herbal infusion, nettle to be exact, per the recommendation of Susun Weed's menopause book. It tastes pretty bad - I've added ACV and Stevia Plus, but I can still taste the nettle.

Nettles are a rich source of many vitamins and minerals, and Susun lists a page and a half of benefits. What do you think of nettles, herbally speaking?

Alice

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I agree, nettles are very herbally beneficial. I don't have my resource handy right now, but as I recall they are chock full of vitamins C. So is chickweed, which is supposed to make a good tea. I have THAT all over the place too!!! My yard is a paleo's heaven. I don't think I've ever seen real Dead Nettle or True Nettles in my yard. I have Lamium ornamentally speaking, but I doubt that has any benefits, being a horticulturally altered plant. I do, however, have an abundant crop of Echinacea taking over and plan to harvest some of them. I suppose I should do it before they flower. The roots are where most of the good stuff is. I wonder what kind of tea that would make, straight out of the garden. I have bought Echinacea Tea and always keep that on hand for when a cold seems imminent. I suppose I could chop the roots up and then let them dry and store them in a ziplock. The experimenting shall begin soon.

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Kateryna posted some great paleo links in another thread, and through them I found this morel mushroom site: http://www.bright.net/~wildwood/index.html

Thanks, Kateryna!

Alice

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lc since 12/18/01

Here's another one - lots of hunting and gathering here: http://www.naturalhub.com/gather_hunt_food.htm

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lc since 12/18/01

Awesome sites Alice!!!!

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those are awsome sites... esp about mushrooms.. i want to educate my self alot about wild mushrooms but then agin im still afraid even after educateing my self if i would want to harvest anything that pops up... ESP after hearing for years and years as a kid.. "dont eat those they will kill ya.." to me look like regular button mushrooms.. shrug.. lots of reading to do.. guess i need to find someone around here whom harvests.. our local "small" airport the yards around it seem to spring up TONS of mush rooms.. i have seen people out picking them befor... i love mushroom!

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I made a yummy wild food salad today. Here's the recipe:

53 violet blossoms
tender inner portions of 19 day lily shoots, snipped into 1/2" sections
7 fiddleheads
petals of 5 dandelion flowers
3 sprigs of garden basil

Place plant material in bowl, drizzle with extra virgin olive oil, squeeze on juice of lemon wedge. Toss and serve outdoors. Share with kids and enjoy sunshine.

This recipe would be great served with some grilled meat, but I didn't think of that until too late.

Maggie - have you eaten fiddleheads? Euell doesn't discuss them in his books, though I know they are edible. They were good raw.

Anybody else eaten any wild food lately?

Alice, the gatherer

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Yes I HAVE eaten fiddleheads, but if I didn't get that notion from his books, I wonder where ....? Hmmm... Maybe the Foxfire books. Did you ever see these? ... checking .... checking.... ahah! I guess they're still available at Amazon

There's a whole series of these books which cover a multitude of subjects, including wild food gathering. I'll bet the library has them. I enjoyed having them very much.

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