You are harvesting nettles, aren't you?

[Anonymous No.17425030]

Right?

Post some wild harvested foods. I'm making sauteed nettles now.

[Anonymous No.17425036]

>>17425030
Here's what I picked today. Some will be cooked, some will be strung up and dried for tea.

Make sure you wear gloves when harvesting or you'll learn why they're called stinging nettles.

[Anonymous No.17425043]

>>17425036
To remove the sting from nettles you need to either blanch them in boiling water for a minute or dry them out. Here they are being blanched.

[Anonymous No.17425047]

Why would one harvest nettles?

[Anonymous No.17425054]

>>17425043
Sweated some onions, added chili flakes for a minute, then tossed the nettles in to cook for a while.

>>17425047
They're very delicious and are super healthy as well.

[Anonymous No.17425056]

>>17425030
Haven't thought bout nettles since reading about them in a book as a kid. What are you going to make with them?

[Anonymous No.17425061]

>>17425030
My mom makes tasty nettle soup with scrambled eggs

[Anonymous No.17425070]

nice try, but if theres anything I learned from runescape it is not to pick the nettles

[Anonymous No.17425073]

>>17425054
Done cooking. I will add a splash of this beautiful 20 year aged apple cider vinegar a little pepper and done!

>>17425056
Tea and you can use them anywhere you use spinach.

[Anonymous No.17425075]

>>17425073
Pic.

[Anonymous No.17425093]

>>17425075
Looks good anon. I used to forage nettles all the time, but since living in the city I rarely do anymore. Foraging it in the inner city is dumb because who knows which dogs (or humans at this point) have pissed/shit on it and best case you get fine particles with your meal. Going out far just to forage nettles is an option but I am often too lazy for it sadly. Enjoy yours, I kind of miss it.

[Anonymous No.17425100]

>>17425075
And wa la. Sauteed nettles, leftover bread soup casserole and some leftover chicken titty.

[Anonymous No.17425126]

>>17425093
They are so delicious. Been years since I've had them. They just grow around my farm in obnoxious spots, so I figured I'd nourish myself and clear out a very annoying plant.

[Anonymous No.17425144]

>>17425075
patrish af

[Anonymous No.17425165]

>>17425144
Camut knows his shit. I'm overjoyed to pay 30 a bottle for the 20 year and 40 for this apple cider balsamic. Beautiful stuff.

Drizzled a bit of the balsamic on the nettles and it went from an 8 to 9.5/10.

[Anonymous No.17425169]

>>17425093
You think all kinds of rodents and birds and animals and bugs don’t shit and piss all over everything in the forest?

[Anonymous No.17425174]

>>17425165
Dammit.

[Anonymous No.17425181]

[Anonymous No.17425206]

>>17425169
Unironically less than the random nettles growing next to a street where all the dog owners let their degenerate dogs shit. Chances are for any plant in the city (outside of parks etc) 5 dogs on average have pissed on it and maybe 0.5 people. In the forest there's more plants to choose from, so the chance that a specific plant has been pissed on is lower.
And I don't mind washing it anyways, but I would rather eat stuff foraged in the forest than next to a street where all the cars pumped their particulates on it 5 days a week for who knows how long.
Also when I go foraging I tend to forage for multiple things, and while stuff like mushrooms and nettles are always in piss range, elder flower and berries are often not.

[Anonymous No.17425216]

>>17425047
to make videos with Queensnake

[Anonymous No.17425225]

No, I'm not a peasant so I don't need to harvest ditch weeds to get by.

[Anonymous No.17425242]

>>17425225
Drink the corn sirup.
Eat the highly processed factory foods.
Remove yourself as far as possible from nature.

[Anonymous No.17425246]

>>17425225
There's great joy to be had in growing and harvesting your own food, friend. You're missing out.

[Anonymous No.17425291]

>>17425242
Project harder, honey.

>>17425246
I have a garden. I still don't need to harvest weeds. Cope.

[Anonymous No.17425301]

>>17425291
Calling tasty and medicinal plants weeds is peak boomer.

I bet you don't have a girthier beet than I do either.

[Anonymous No.17425397]

>>17425301
most of my beets come out as chodes

[Anonymous No.17425408]

>>17425397
That bad boy has been growing for almost a year now. It's a red mammoth beet, so they're designed to grow giant.

I picked most of mine when they were golfball to tennis ball sized. Space them out a little more if you want bigger beets and make sure you have loose soil, so they don't struggle to grow big.

[Anonymous No.17425815]

>>17425100
Looks comfy as fuck, well done op

[Anonymous No.17425824]

>>17425301
Wew lad that's a biggun, I bet all the farm girls love your girthy beets

[Anonymous No.17425832]

>>17425408
>>17425301
But why would you grow a beet so large? I find larger beets really rather unpleasant to work with as well as to eat. I like smaller ones, roughly the size of, say, an average orange or so, but once they get too big, fuck'em.
How do you keep such an enormous mass of dye from staining everything as you prepare it for cooking?

[Anonymous No.17425833]

>>17425206
Unironically no there’s way more rodents and other animals in the forest that pots and shit on everything. If anything the dogs in the street keep all the diseased little animals away.

[Anonymous No.17425841]

>>17425206
You think rodents don’t climb up trees and bushes to mark their territory aka spray piss and shit everywhere?

[Anonymous No.17425847]

>>17425832
It's a novelty. They're also called "fodder beets" so you just use it as cheap livestock food. I had a maybe 3 pound one and it was quite bland and white on the inside.

I consider it one of my pets at this point. I will continue to grow it until it goes to seed.

[Anonymous No.17425892]

>>17425847
Ah. I see, I see. Once it seeds, you'll harvest what grows from /those/ at a more manageable size, I take it?

[Anonymous No.17425903]

>>17425892
I might save the seeds, but I'll probably end up weighing it and chopping it up to feed the goats.

I think the beets die after they go to seed. And letting beets drop tons of seeds in your garden is a recipe for massive amounts of weeding. Each seed pod sprouts like 5-8 beets.

[Anonymous No.17425930]

>>17425903
Criminy. While I've grown beets, I've never let them flower, never mind seed, so I had no idea.
Also, yay goats.

[Anonymous No.17425951]

>>17425301
Just imagine cramming that

[Anonymous No.17425961]

>>17425930
Yay goats indeed.

>>17425951
I really don't want to even imagine imagining that. 19 inches around is quite the cram.

[Anonymous No.17425962]

Where do you live that nettles are growing already?

We don't have those until maybe early April here.

[Anonymous No.17425965]

>>17425093
>but since living in the city I rarely do anymore

they sell them at the farmers market - in thin plastic bags which is stupid because it increases the risk of you getting stung so I guess ill bring sturdy bags to put them in this year

but they usually aren't sold here in the mid atlantic until April

you must be really far south to already have nettles

[Anonymous No.17426256]

>>17425951
Heavenly

[Anonymous No.17426282]

>>17425030
I only ate nettles in childhood: we made nettles soup, in late spring, when nettles are tender, while visiting dacha.
Also I foraged mushrooms like chanterelles, berries and wild hazelnut.

[Anonymous No.17426669]

>>17425815
It was the best lunch I've made myself in a very long time.

>>17426282
I need to make nettle soup. I think I will follow a delicious watercress soup recipe I have, but sub the cress for nettle.

Im looking forward to having dried nettle for tea as well.

[Anonymous No.17426748]

>ouch

[Anonymous No.17426758]

>>17426256
Gonna need my /sp/ troops to look at those chuds sniffing ass bc I can no longer look at it.

[Anonymous No.17426768]

>>17426748
I was wearing kinda shitty gloves and I got stabbed through them on my thumb. Ouch indeed. Some rubber gloves under my shitty gloves seemed to do the trick.

[Anonymous No.17427252]

>>17425100
Its freezing out but I think I'm gonna do that next foraging season. We have nettles everywhere.

Can you use nettle flowers or is that thistle Im thinking of for teas?

[Anonymous No.17427326]

>>17425030
M8. Its the dead of fucking winter. Where the hell are you at where you're able to harvest anything? Also no. Nettles are fucking gross.

[Anonymous No.17427465]

>>17425075
>ingredients
>100% pommes
>5% d'acite
>105% total

[Anonymous No.17427468]

Gonna try making some nettle pesto at some point.

[Anonymous No.17428324]

>>17427252
>>17427326
Lol. I'm in central california about an hour from the coast. 30-40 at night. It's been in the 70s the past week or two. I realized shortly after making this thread It's still snowing most places.

>>17427465
Vinegarlet, although It is magical vinegar, so maybe theyve made some sort of physics breaking discovery.

>>17427468
Looks great. Will be doing this for sure.

[Anonymous No.17428543]

>>17425047
Because they're fucking delicious city fag

[Anonymous No.17428571]

>>17426748
Underrated

[Anonymous No.17429677]

>>17425030
Nettle.

[Anonymous No.17429752]

>>17425030
how would one get into foraging wild plants to eat?

[Anonymous No.17429775]

>>17429752
You'll need to figure out the edible plants that grow in your area and then go into the forest and find them. Avoid plants next to the road.

[Anonymous No.17429791]

>>17429775
>Avoid plants next to the road.
why is that

[Anonymous No.17429812]

>>17429791
Cars release a lot of toxic shit that plants suck up from the soil.

Mainly heavy metals.

[Anonymous No.17429820]

>>17428324
>California
This explains the tone of this post.

[Anonymous No.17429839]

>>17429820
Rural cali. Only the cities are progressive shitholes.

[Anonymous No.17431262]

>>17427326
Not everyone on the planet lives where you live you stupid fucking ignorant cunt

[Anonymous No.17431746]

Atomic shrimp please stay

[Anonymous No.17431774]

>>17425030
n..no ... they sting and burn me..

[Anonymous No.17431873]

whens the best time to pick nettles?

[Anonymous No.17431880]

>>17431873
when they are ripe. you can test this by rubbing them on the inside of your elbow

[Anonymous No.17431894]

>>17425225
>No, I'm not a peasant
t. baron's bottom bedwench

[Anonymous No.17432064]

>>17425181
Based KCD enjoyer