The best of Now - a Northeastern spring - on a plate.
These are just-blanched wood nettles, on the left. When I pick them I lop off just the top two pairs of leaves, where the stalk is still very tender. Yes, they are very prickly. After 2-3 minutes in boiling water the stings dissolve and the stem is tender enough to eat. Then I refresh in cold water, to keep the colour.
On the right, very beautiful New Jersey asparagus.
They are destined to be soup, a sipped snack for a walk in the woods on Saturday
There is one more spring walk on my list for the city, midweek in Prospect Park, on the 27th, with wild botanical cocktails. Yes, I am still figuring out how exactly to equip my backback. Two cocktails' mixings, glasses, ice...
Head-scratch.
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Gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI wish the botanical walks you do were a thing in my area (central MD).