A little while back, I showed you a picture of my emerging Nettle field. For the past few days, I have been harvesting nettles at least once a day.
I take a shallow bowl and my scissors. I push the bowl under the area I want to harvest and pull the nettles with my scissors over the bowl.
Snip.
Snap.
And the baby nettles fall right into the bowl without getting a chance to sting me. Then, I throw them into a bowl with water to wash them, lift them with tongues into a colander and we are ready to use them for a meal.
So far, I had chicken soup with nettles, curried garbanzo beans with spinach and nettles, an omlette, nettle tea and some in a salad.
I love to eat my weeds. Do you?
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The nettles are starting to grow again in my yard, I haven't harvested any so far this season but I need to. They start to grow too much and that can be difficult. I like making tea with them and eating the leaves after I drink the tea.
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I like the idea of eating the leaves after drinking the tea!!! I usually mix in lemongrass and whatever else is growing in the yard, like berry leaves, mint and such. But I think I make a nettle only tea today and eat the leaves!!
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Is it coriander leaf?
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No, stinging nettle
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The fresh ravioli with nettle I had a few years ago at Cotogna in San Francisco was amazing. Thank you for satisfying my curiosity of how its harvested.
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Sounds amazing.
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I want some!!
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My garden has been feeding me for a few days with nettles. Love it!
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yay!!
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Good photo! In my childhood, my mother cooked the nettle soup. I know that it is necessary to take exactly the young nettle ... Very delicious soup turned out!
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It is so good!! And so full of nutrition!!
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I've never heard of "Nettle" before. So fascinating. Do you know of any particular health benefits?
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yes, lots of them. They are considered a great medicine. Here is some info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urtica_dioica
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Awesome! Thank you! I've been doing more research into medical herbs. Are there others you use too?
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I did do this once but don't have any plants close by now. Need to catch them when they are young as you are doing.
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If you know where some are - you can always harvest the seeds and then throw them into your yard :)
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Wow
daun ini sangat baik untuk kesehatan
lebih anda menumisnya biar lebih enaak ketika di sajikan dengan nasi
Thanks you @mariannewest
i like you post
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It would be good with rice!
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Yes
it will be good
saute it well
will get the taste that makes you like in Indonesia😀
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what fat do you use in Indonesia to cook with? and what kind of spices would you add?
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Stinging nettle is good for something health-wise right? What is it? Weight loss? Digestion?
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Here is the wiki entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urtica_dioica
it is super high in calcium and often considered a good tea for women especially, high in all kinds of nutrients and considered a kidney cleanser and more...
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Interesting. It looks like it was probably very beneficial to our ancestor's diets, particularly in the spring. I had no idea it was so widely eaten and used in so many established recipes.
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I eat beat and carrot tops from my veegie garden! Either make smoothies or omelets (the beet tops). They are full of vitamins, I believe!
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