"Farm1" > wrote in message
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> Over the last few days I've been reading the River Cottage book on
> Hedgerows and foraging, then last night when I was going through my
> recipes I came across a recipe for a Weed Pie given to me by a chap I used
> to know.
>
> As a child this man grew up in the middle east in quite poor circumstances
> but after migrating to Aus he did very well for himself and ended up being
> an Adviser to one of our Prime Ministers.
>
> He attended some classes with me and one day at lunch shared his weed pie.
> It really was made of weeds such as chickweed and dandelions and it was
> just superb - it reminded me faintly of those Greek Triangles made of
> spinach and cheese in Phyllo pastry.
>
> Has anyone else here eaten weeds or have a favourite weed recipe?

I have only foraged for dandelions and after my dad told me not to. They
were in the back yard. I can't remember the reason at the time. We didn't
have a dog. Perhaps he had put chemicals on them. Anyway, we dug those up,
cut the roots off (I got the directions from a book) and cooked the leaves
with garlic salt. We also harvested a bunch of veggies from the neighbor's
garden. We were forbidden to get those too because their septic tank had
backed up over the garden. But we did it anyway and made those into stew.
We used my friend's little Suzy Homemaker oven which unlike my stupid Easy
Bake not only baked but had burners that heated up. We had a good lunch!

We can get bagged salad and salad mixes here that my brother refers to as
"weeds" He won't eat that kind.

When we lived on Cape Cod, we had a lot of things that looked to be edible
but I was never really sure so never tried eating them. Then when we moved
here I came close to eating something from the strawberry patch that I
thought was parsley. Good thing I didn't! It was buttercups and the leaves
are poison.