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Eat | Drink | Cheap Episode 25 – Backyard Buffet Spring Edition

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Bring your boots! Along rivers and hiking trails are growing a bounty of bright green, powerfully flavoured wild edibles that you can harvest at no cost. Shawn and Simon point out some of their favourites. 

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Music by John Palmer

Show notes and Shout Outs:

Miners Lettuce: https://www.eatdrinkbreathe.com/spring-beauty/ 

Purple Deadnettle: https://www.growforagecookferment.com/foraging-purple-dead-nettle/

Salmonberry Shoots: http://wildfoodsandmedicines.com/salmonberry-and-thimbleberry-sprouts/

Yarrow: https://www.almanac.com/plant/yarrow

Angel Wing Mushrooms: https://www.mushroom-appreciation.com/angel-wings-identification.html

Blackberry Leaves: https://www.eatdrinkbreathe.com/space-invaders-a-word-on-himalayan-blackberries/

Dandylions: https://www.eatdrinkbreathe.com/pulling-lions-teeth-2/

Plants of Coastal British Comlumbia by Jim Pojar: https://www.amazon.ca/Plants-Coastal-British-Columbia-Washington/dp/1772130095

All That The Rains Promise And More by David Arora: https://www.amazon.ca/All-That-Rain-Promises-More/dp/0898153883

Some Useful Wild Plants by Dan Jason: https://www.amazon.ca/Some-Useful-Wild-Plants-Foraging/dp/1550177915

Deerholme Foraging Book by Bill Jones: https://www.amazon.ca/Deerholme-Foraging-Book-Recipes-Northwest/dp/1771510455

Plantnet App: https://plantnet.org/en/

Point of No Return by Malcom Stratchon: https://malcolmstrachan.bandcamp.com/album/point-of-no-return

Eat | Drink | Cheap Episode 20 – Winter Greens

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Shawn and Simon dig out from December’s snowpocalypse and bring with them a bounty of beautiful, bitter, brassicas. 

Questions, comments or corrections? Hit us up at email@eatdrinkcheap.ca

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Music by John Palmer

Show notes and Shout Outs:

Alexis Sawyer’s Shilling Cookery For The People: https://www.amazon.ca/Shilling-Cookery-People-Embracing-Entirely/dp/1436749719

Caldo Verde: https://www.eatdrinkbreathe.com/portuguese-style-kale-soup/

Fermented Chard Stems: https://raiasrecipes.com/2018/04/lacto-fermented-rainbow-chard.html

Track and Food Podcast: https://www.midrangevancouver.com/track-food

The Great Courses on Kanopy: https://www.kanopy.com/en/category/915

Spring Beauty

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Spring Beauty 1It’s May and the green belt behind our house is just that. Green! A chlorophyll wonderland of shimmering leaves, budding tree branches and ferns studded with tiny little purple flowers that I can’t identify but look so freakin cute! Viewed from my kitchen window the scene overwhelms the senses. So much is growing and moving. So much is green! My eyes focus and unfocus wildly, trying hopelessly to impose some order on all this chaos, this emerald leviathan, this explosion of life.

And the edibles! Dandelions, fiddleheads, salmonberry shoots, nettles and everything else I’ve been gushing about for the last three or four posts. It’s a forager’s paradise! And now, I can add Miner’s Lettuce (aka: Indian Lettuce, Winter Purslane and Spring Beauty) to my growing list of spring pickings. Read More

Dandelion Omelette with Spring Herbs and Smoked Asiago

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Dandelion Omelette 1For some reason, every time I make an omelette I think of Neil Gaimen’s Sandman comic. There is this scene where Morpheus (the titular character) is asked what he wants to eat. He responds: “An omelette, a light salad and a glass of white wine…”

This, to me is the essence of brunch: A couple eggs, something green and restorative and a bit of the ‘ol hair of the dog. The perfect thing for that weird, still-dazed, what the hell am I doing with my day? feeling that comes from waking late and piecing together the night before. Food’s got to be nourishing, light and easy… With bite. Read More