Wild Greens: Turn Weeds into a Great Salad in Winter or Spring
Here are wild greens and common yard weeds that can be turned into great salads, anytime the weather is cool and wet. Even in the winter, if the ground isn't frozen. They are common weeds of the spring, too, in many lawns, gardens, and untended areas in neighborhoods and parks.
I pick 16 weeds from my yard. I give you tips for making a great wild salad. I top my salad with plants from the wild and from my garden -- even homegrown ripe tomatoes on December 31! And I have a New Year's Eve cocktail made from my Black Locust Flower Gin. Have a great year of foraging and eating!
I made this salad as part of my annual personal challenge to make a wild salad on the last day of every year.
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Wild Plant List (in order of appearance)
Cats-ear - Hypochaeris radicata
Yellow Archangel or Yellow Dead-nettle - Lamiastrum galeobdolon
Cleavers - Galium aparine
Nipplewort - Lapsana communis
Narrowleaf plantain - Plantago lanceolate
Purple deadnettle - Lamium purpureum
Borage - Borago officinalis
Common sowthistle - Sonchus oleraceus
Lemon balm - Melissa officinalis
Hedge mustard - Sisymbrium officinale
Chickweed - Stellaria media
Curly dock - Rumex crispus
Common mallow - Malva neglecta
Wild field mustard – Brassica rapa
Wild chives – Allium vinale
Dandelion - Taraxacum officinale
Yucca – Yucca gloriosa
Black locust - Robinia pseudoacacia
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Videos on specific plants mentioned in this video:
Hedge Mustard -
Wild Field Mustard -
Wild Chives -
Black Locust Flower Cocktails -
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Like Wild Salads? Here's a whole playlist of wild salads:
Wild Salads -
If you like your cooked wild greens, here's a playlist about preparing your harvest:
Cooking Wild Greens -
If you want to improve your foraging skills, here's my playlist - Foraging: Real Food for Regular People -
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Here are my playlists about specific wild plants:
Dandelions -
Wild Mustard Plants -
Elderberry -
Spruce Trees -
Pine Trees -
Redbud Trees -
Detailed ID of Wild Mushrooms -
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Music
One Fine Day by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (
Artist:
Plain Loafer Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License,
Auld Lang Syne (Instrumental) by Jingle Punks, Touching Moment by Wayne Jones, You Are My Rainbow by Unicorn Heads, all from YouTube Audio Library
B-WELLthy - Orange Dressing with Fruit & Greens
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ORANGE DRESSING WITH FRUIT AND GREENS – Serves 4
INGREDIENTS:
¼ Cup Orange Juice
3 Tbsp. Vinegar
1 Tbsp. Mustard (Dijon or other)
1 ½ Tbsp. Olive Oil
Pinch of Salt
Pinch of Pepper
8 Cups Greens (romaine, lettuce, and/or spinach)
2 Cups Chopped Vegetables (broccoli, cabbage, radishes, carrots, cauliflower, celery, peppers, onions, and/or tomatos)
2 Cups Chopped Fruit (apples, berries, grapes, and/or oranges)
DIRECTIONS:
1. Combine dressing ingredients in a container with screw top or whisk with a fork.
2. Close tightly and shake until combined.
3. Store in the refrigerator until ready to use (up to 1 week).
4. For each salad, top 2 cups of greens with ½ cup vegetables and ½ cup fruit.
5. Take dressing from the refrigerator and shake hard to combine ingredients again.
6. Drizzle 2 tablespoons of dressing onto each salad.
QUICK TIPS
• Use any fruit juice you want.
• Leave out the sugar with sweeter juices such as pomegranate or clementine.
• This salad dressing will be thinner than store bought salad dressing.
• 1 tablespoon is equal to 1 ½ teaspoons.
NUTRITION FACTS
• 4 servings per recipe / Serving Size: 3 cups salad with 2 tablespoons dressing
• Calories – 160
• Fat – 7g
• Carb. – 21g
• Fiber – 5g
• Protein – 3g
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Dandelion Vinegar Salad Dressing
Dandelion Vinegar Salad Dressing
2 Cups fresh dandelion root, chopped
1 Cup fresh dandelion leaves, chopped
2 Cups apple cider vinegar
Wash the dandelion roots and leaves then chop them up.
In a saucepan, heat the vinegar to a simmer.
Place the roots and leaves in a one quart glass jar and pour the warm vinegar over them.
Cap the jar; label it and store it in a cool, dark cabinet for two weeks, placing the jar on a plate in case of leakage.
Strain the vinegar and return the liquid to a clean jar.
Label and store in a cabinet.
Rich in iron; is also the basis for Dandelion Salad Dressing.
Foraging Dandelion/ Dandelion Salad
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Dandelion Salad with Mustard Orange Dressing ~ Live Entrée
MD Vegan combining dandelion, tomatoes, celery stalks, cucumber sticks and onion ringlets to toss with orange lemon juice blended with sesame seeds, black and red pepper, mustard seeds and orange and lemon zest.