If you are a gardener, I’m sure you’ve come across bindweed. It’s quite an invasive weed which grows up other plants and chokes them. At the festival someone (can’t remember who) asked me “Can you eat bindweed?” I replied that I didn’t think so. Imagine my surprise when I decided to research this and found that it is indeed edible! According to Plants for a Future (PFAF), it’s “Edibility Rating” is only 2 out of 5 and it advises caution as it is a purgative, but I tried it and was pleasantly surprised, it has a fairly mild flavour and it’s tender.
By the way, the Plants for a Future website www.pfaf.org is an excellent resource for researching plants.
August 19th, 2006
Wow, the festival was amazing. So many wonderful people all in the same place. It was hard work for me at times but from the response I think it was worth it! Hopefully some people will send me some photos soon…p/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=89
We’ve just started Sea Spaghetti at Funky Raw which I am so pleased about. It’s my favourite type of sea weed and I used to eat it all the time when I lived in Spain but I’ve never found it over here so I imported my own. So this is what I made for dinner last night:
- 2 tomatoes
- 1 carrot
- a few pieces of broccoli
- about 10g of Sea Spaghetti soaked for 30 mins
- a load of wild greens
- 1 spring onion
- a couple of mushrooms
- a small piece of ginger
- a small piece of fresh chili
- water
I chopped the veg then put everything (including the soak water from the seaweed) into my blender and blended. As usual, I stired in a tablespoon of flax oil before I ate. Delicious, and amazingly enough for me, a meal without an avocado!
August 19th, 2006
