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Recipes

Dandelion Greens with A Kick

I spent a few months in my twenties (in my formative cooking years)living in the woods in the Catskill Mountains. Much like Sam, in the book “My Side of the Mountain”, I ate many things from the forest. My bosses wife also often fed me from her lawn. One thing that I remember fondly was her dandelion green salads. She topped the raw dandelion greens with a buttermilk dressing. They had a whang to them! For those of you who might appreciate a little less whang, this is a recipe for a simple saute of dandelion greens. It’s from allrecipes.com. Click here to view the recipe at the source.

1 teaspoon salt
1 pound dandelion greens, torn into 4
-inch pieces
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon butter
1/2 onion, thinly sliced
1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
2 cloves garlic, minced
salt and ground black pepper to taste
1 tablespoon grated Parmesan cheese
(optional)

DIRECTIONS:
1.Soak dandelion greens in a large bowl of cold water with 1 teaspoon salt for 10 minutes. Drain.

2.Bring a large pot of water to a boil with 1 teaspoon salt. Cook greens until tender, 3 to 4 minutes. Drain and rinse with cold water until chilled.

3.Heat olive oil and butter in a large skillet over medium heat; cook and stir onion and red pepper flakes until onion is tender, about 5 minutes. Stir in garlic until garlic is fragrant, about 30 seconds more. Increase heat to medium-high and add dandelion greens. Continue to cook and stir until liquid is evaporated, 3 to 4 minutes. Season with salt and black pepper.

4.Sprinkle greens with Parmesan cheese to serve.

Market News


It’s finally warm and dry enough (well it was until last night) to think about planting. If you are looking for plants, you are in luck, more and more are added to the market each week.

For those of you waiting for spring fruits, I’m happy to report that our strawberry plants on the mountain have tiny green berries on them. There will be strawberries before long.


Chickweed has fresh nettle tops for sale this week!

In Town Organics has a small amount of super baby seasonal salad mix this week – look for an abundance in weeks to come.

Happy Spring!

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