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Hauler

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Had a pretty good crop of Creeping Charlie that sprouted up before my first mow of the season. It's a weed in the mint family, high in vitamin C and it's supposed to be really good for you.




Cleaned it a bit and crammed it into a Mason jar:


Added boiling water and let it sit for about 10 minutes.


Filtered it into a glass, added some ice and BAM! Yard Weed Tea.


Not going to lie. It tasted like ass.
And now the wife is pissed at me because the kitchen smells like a hot spinach fart.

Do not recommend.
 
gangsterkathryn

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Hauler said:
I added lemon juice and honey. I was able to choke it down after that.

It still had a very "earthy" taste to it.
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I’m not into “earthy,” kava was “earthy” enough, and that at least does something.

Let me know if you start tripping balls anytime soon.
 
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Hmmm maybe next time use toilet water and see if It tastes better?
 
Hauler

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FYI. This is what Creeping Charlie looks like:


Not to be confused with Henbit:


Or Purple Dead Nettle:


All can be found in the midwest in the spring, often within close proximity to one another.
All are edible though, so no biggie if you mix them up.
 
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Hauler said:
FYI. This is what Creeping Charlie looks like:


Not to be confused with Henbit:


Or Purple Dead Nettle:


Although all are edible, so no biggie if you mix them up.
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Make sure it's not that stuff of into the wild.

I've never eaten anything wild apart from berries and a native chick I met in the bar ince
 
Hauler

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Make sure it's not that stuff of into the wild.
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I'm a fairly cautious forager.
Usually when I eat plants in the wild it's just to freak people out and I'm 100% sure they are safe.

I have a buddy who is really good at identifying plants, and he particularly likes hunting for mushrooms. But some of those things have very small differences between poisonous and edible, so I don't eat them even when he picks them.
 
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I'm a fairly cautious forager.
Usually when I eat plants in the wild it's just to freak people out and I'm 100% sure they are safe.

I have a buddy who is really good at identifying plants, and he particularly likes hunting for mushrooms. But some of those things have very small differences between poisonous and edible, so I don't eat them even when he picks them.
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I'm not much of an outdoorsman, but a few years out of college I got dragged along by my then girlfriend to her family's hunting cabin in the middle of nowhere & the moonshine was flowing all weekend. Her cousin was there for a day, he's a pretty big redneck & I was walking thru the woods with him & he said he was tracking deer & he bent down & grabbed a couple brown pellets off the ground that appeared to be deer shit, sniffed them & ate them & said "Yep, we got a doe wandering around here." Didn't find out til later they were raisinettes. His buddy, who showed up in bib overalls with no tshirt underneath got there later & told me his name was "Craven Morehead" This was after a lot of moonshine so it took me til the next day to realize I'd been had. Not my most sharpest weekend, I blame the moonshine
 
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Hauler

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One of the more popular shrooms to hunt for around here is the Morel.

They look like this:

Morels are edible and quite good when cooked.

This is what is known as a False Morel - very poisonous:


Best way to tell them apart is to slit them in half. Morels are hollow, False Morels are not.

 
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Good thread.
I too was expecting dandelion.
Was the creeping charlie flowering Hauler @Hauler ?
 
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Hauler said:
FYI. This is what Creeping Charlie looks like:


Not to be confused with Henbit:


Or Purple Dead Nettle:


All can be found in the midwest in the spring, often within close proximity to one another.
All are edible though, so no biggie if you mix them up.
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I eat nettle every year when hiking or rafting...roll a soft new growth tip in a ball to crush the little stingers and eat it...very tasty

I also eat new blackberry growth...it is one of the first new growth to shoot in spring

learned about these from a Latino dude that used to hike 5 miles to work thru woods each day...he brought no lunch and ate stuff off the land...Salvador
 
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This is some proper redneck ingenuity I can get behind. Even though a cat probably had a wee on it.
 
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Hauler said:
Had a pretty good crop of Creeping Charlie that sprouted up before my first mow of the season. It's a weed in the mint family, high in vitamin C and it's supposed to be really good for you.




Cleaned it a bit and crammed it into a Mason jar:


Added boiling water and let it sit for about 10 minutes.


Filtered it into a glass, added some ice and BAM! Yard Weed Tea.


Not going to lie. It tasted like ass.
And now the wife is pissed at me because the kitchen smells like a hot spinach fart.

Do not recommend.
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I knew a man called Creeping Charlie ones.
 
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