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 Eat | Drink | Cheap Episode 05 – Nettles

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Our heroes go on an adventure for spring’s first forgeable meal: Nettles! learn how to avoid getting stung and how to prepare this robust wild weed for dinner. Also, why is tofuky?

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Music by John Palmer

Show notes and Shout Outs:

Guide To Foraging Stinging Nettles: https://www.eatdrinkbreathe.com/stinging-nettles/

NW Primate on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzmTSIV94RNueSzZX20gmPQ

Nettle Pesto: https://www.eatdrinkbreathe.com/nettle-pesto/

Hank Shaw’s Nettle and Fish Soup:  https://honest-food.net/nettle-soup/

Pineapple in Lime Jello: http://www.americantable.org/2013/06/retro-recipe-dole-pineapple-jell-o-in-a-can-1955/ 

The Supersizers Eat on BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lbttj/episodes/guide 

Feathers by Egle Eyed Tiger: https://eagleeyedtiger.bandcamp.com/album/feathers-2 

Books On Foraging: https://www.eatdrinkbreathe.com/best-westcoast-foraging-guides/

Nettle Pesto

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Nettle Pesto

Mother Nature has finally pulled herself together and ended the treachley tyranny of wind and rain that we West coasters call winter. Now that the sun’s out the world becomes a psychedelic dreamscape of bright pink cherry blossoms, purple crocuses, and deep green salmonberry shoots. I roll back the rock and stumble blindly, yet eagerly out of my cave and into the backyard with a pair of gloves and a plastic bag to collect the first edible greenery of the year: The mighty Stinging Nettle! Read More

Stinging Nettle Soup

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Nettlesoup1I’ve got a big heap of Stinging Nettles in the sink waiting for me to make my move. They sit there glowering at me, covered in wicked piercing hairs filled with sting-juice. Not to fear! I’ve stolen my wife’s hot pink dish gloves (sexy!), a strainer to catch any bugs ‘n bits left curled in the stems and big pot for boiling all the fight out of these ornery weeds. Let’s make some soup!

This is a riff on a recipe I found in (of all places) a Tricycle Magazine article from way back. The author explained the beautiful simplicity and austerity of nettle soup in a way that really stuck with me. It’s a really honest, peasant-style soup that invigorates and soothes at the same time. The perfect thing to feed my foraging family during the early spring flu season… Seriously, is everyone in this house sick but me? Read More