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nettles
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:35 pm
by richard p
apparently its nettle week!!!!!
http://www.nettles.org.uk/
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:46 pm
by Bren
As a child we used to eat nettles 3 times during the month of May,it was cooked like cabbage or steamed, it was supposed to clean the blood of what i'm not sure
Bren
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:18 am
by alan refail
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
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:44 am
by jopsy
my friend grows nettles for variuos foody reasons, we eat/drink it when we visit
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:22 pm
by madasafish
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:-))
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:31 am
by Johnboy
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.
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 4:41 pm
by alan refail
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