Why feel guilty about the weeds in your backyard when you can harvest them?? As an apartment dweller not long ago, I urban foraged the weeds along the sidewalk edges of people's lawns. Now I have plenty of weeds in my own backyard! Though, of course, I might like to have a little more intentional growth as well someday...
We recently had a whole lot of bushy dandelions that were thriving. I pulled them and harvested the roots for roasted dandelion coffee. It makes for a neat variation on your standard cup of coffee - sort of like chicory coffee in New Orleans.
I followed instructions from Prodigal Gardens.
Woah this looks good. This inspired me to try something I'd been wanting to try for a while... ground peanuts mixed with ground coffee (peanutbrew).
ReplyDeleteI was going to say that sounds gross (like eating coffee grounds mixed with peanut butter) but I guess people eat chocolate covered espresso beans.
ReplyDeleteThe dandelion root coffee definitely reflects the bitterness of coffee. I can imagine why dandelion root was once used as gruit to give bitterness to beer, before the use of hops became widespread.
Also a friend recently told me about making a dandy-coffee ice cream shake.
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