apparently its nettle week!!!!!
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alan refail
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Great website.
I have long hoped the nettle would get the recognition it deserves. Seriously.
We have nettle soup every spring - as I have been posting in the Recipes and Harvesting threads. Nettles are full of iron and vitamin C and act as a tonic, probably physically and certainly psychologically.
Here's what we are eating at the moment
Nettle and Wild Garlic Soup
4 oz nettle shoots (a carrier bagful)
2 oz wild garlic leaves
1 oz butter
1 medium onion chopped fine
1 medium potato peeled and quartered
1 pint good chicken stock (not a cube)
grated nutmeg, salt and pepper and double cream to taste
1 Wash nettles and wild garlic (wear rubber gloves!). Put to drain in a colander.
2 Cook onion gently in butter till soft but not coloured
3 Add nettles, wild garlic and potatoes and stir until leaves wilted
4 Add stock and simmer for fifteen minutes
5 Liquidise, keeping potato pieces till the end so that soup may be to your desired thickness
6 Return to saucepan, add nutmeg, seasoning to taste and double cream to taste. Heat through and serve.
Serves 2
I have long hoped the nettle would get the recognition it deserves. Seriously.
We have nettle soup every spring - as I have been posting in the Recipes and Harvesting threads. Nettles are full of iron and vitamin C and act as a tonic, probably physically and certainly psychologically.
Here's what we are eating at the moment
Nettle and Wild Garlic Soup
4 oz nettle shoots (a carrier bagful)
2 oz wild garlic leaves
1 oz butter
1 medium onion chopped fine
1 medium potato peeled and quartered
1 pint good chicken stock (not a cube)
grated nutmeg, salt and pepper and double cream to taste
1 Wash nettles and wild garlic (wear rubber gloves!). Put to drain in a colander.
2 Cook onion gently in butter till soft but not coloured
3 Add nettles, wild garlic and potatoes and stir until leaves wilted
4 Add stock and simmer for fifteen minutes
5 Liquidise, keeping potato pieces till the end so that soup may be to your desired thickness
6 Return to saucepan, add nutmeg, seasoning to taste and double cream to taste. Heat through and serve.
Serves 2
Cred air o bob deg a glywi, a thi a gei rywfaint bach o wir (hen ddihareb Gymraeg)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
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madasafish
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Ive just made nettle tea.
I cannot believe how vile the smell is!
It's in a baisin in the greenhouse: been there for a week. Nice and hot: mould on the top.
Smells like a cow had a violent stomach disorder after eating curried grass and onions might do:-))
I cannot believe how vile the smell is!
It's in a baisin in the greenhouse: been there for a week. Nice and hot: mould on the top.
Smells like a cow had a violent stomach disorder after eating curried grass and onions might do:-))
Hi Alan,
I rather like Cream of Nettle soup which I first tasted in a restaurant in Belgium about 1958 and have enjoyed it every year since.
One thing is that if you hack Nettles to the ground the regeneration is just as good as the first picking and you can do this several times a year.
JB.
I rather like Cream of Nettle soup which I first tasted in a restaurant in Belgium about 1958 and have enjoyed it every year since.
One thing is that if you hack Nettles to the ground the regeneration is just as good as the first picking and you can do this several times a year.
JB.
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alan refail
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Johnboy
A fellow nettle eater!
If you can get hold of the ramsons next year, do give our recipe above a try - even better than nettle.
Alan
A fellow nettle eater!
If you can get hold of the ramsons next year, do give our recipe above a try - even better than nettle.
Alan