Posted on 09/24/2022 5:21:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Is Biden Admin pushing people to eat insects and garden weeds? Any nutrition in a garden weed?
“In fact, she has an entire list of edible weeds.”
if kudzu is on her list, she’ll never go hungry ...
More like the “weed smokers.”
I don’t know about going around looking for it but amaranth is good, the wild and the planted.
There are some really pretty ones, Love-Lies-Bleeding, the summer poinsettias are real pretty and the taller giant burgundy.
They sell amaranth flour at the grocery.
Heck, even pokeweed is good.
Kudzu tastes about like cornstarch, and is a popular thickener in asian dishes.
Silly me, leaves are also used. As they say, be sure it hasn’t been sprayed. Maybe grow some in a pot. https://www.ajc.com/blog/atlanta-restaurants/curious-about-cooking-with-kudzu-try-these-recipes/b3EQUiFcZ1c4uCwXHDdXQO/
Skip to 4:00:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8ylG5o3AWc
Regards,
I’ve prepared kudzu. It’s more fibrous than spinach and needs to be deveined and steamed, but it’s nutritious.
Cool!
Not going to verify
What Asian dishes?
Have never seen it listed as an ingredient in any of the ones I’ve cooked
Anything that could use a thickened sauce. But serve it at home, as the root powder de-thickens, in my experience, with too much vibration as in what would occur in a car ride.
Hopefully fertilizer or week killers haven't been applied already
I have often wondered, if kudzu is a “noxious” weed in the South, why don’t some Southerners dig it out, do some simple root refining process, and compete with Japanese sources to bring the price down? Or is the root only a superfood to those who live on rice?
Think health nut sources, not necessarily asian.
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