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Main Discussion Area => Cooking Forum => Topic started by: Stickhead on June 19, 2018, 07:25:34 pm

Title: Milkweed pod season!
Post by: Stickhead on June 19, 2018, 07:25:34 pm: This is my favorite wild veggie, and it’s peaking now in VA. Snip ‘em, rinse and boil ‘em. A little salt and butter, and you can’t beat ‘em. (Just leave some buds for the Monarch butterflies.)
Title: Re: Milkweed pod season!
Post by: Stoker on June 20, 2018, 04:21:47 pm: Interesting.. Ours are just blooming.. Taste like chicken???
Thanks Leroy
Title: Re: Milkweed pod season!
Post by: KHalverson on June 24, 2018, 06:31:12 am: I harvested and tried these yesterday.
I boiled twice.
tasted like a cross between wax beans and asparagus.
added butter and a touch of minced garlic.
delicious!!
Title: Re: Milkweed pod season!
Post by: tattoo dave on July 02, 2018, 12:46:00 pm: So I have to ask, why boil them twice?

Tattoo Dave
Title: Re: Milkweed pod season!
Post by: KHalverson on July 02, 2018, 05:11:14 pm: Quote from: tattoo dave on July 02, 2018, 12:46:00 pm
So I have to ask, why boil them twice?

Tattoo Dave

Dave.
i know that the sap is bitter.
i done it to make sure it was all gone from the pods.
unfortunatlly i think the pods are too far along to do this now.
next year i will definatelly try this again and try only boiling once.
Title: Re: Milkweed pod season!
Post by: tattoo dave on July 05, 2018, 07:22:04 am: I have more milkweed in my yard then I could possibly eat, and more coming up everyday. I'm pretty sure I'll have plenty to eat for a while. I'll be trying this soon. Maybe tonight.

Tattoo Dave
Title: Re: Milkweed pod season!
Post by: tattoo dave on July 06, 2018, 07:26:46 am: So, I had some last night. Only boiled once, but did soak them in cold water for about 5 minutes. No bitter taste. They were yummy. I have 2 daughters, one is suspicious of darn near everything I put on the table, the other is more than happy to eat experimental foods with me. She loved them, said they were yummy and will eat them again.

Tattoo Dave
Title: Re: Milkweed pod season!
Post by: bjrogg on July 24, 2018, 06:05:50 am: I tried it, I liked it.
Bjrogg
Title: Re: Milkweed pod season!
Post by: bjrogg on June 28, 2019, 04:43:09 pm: Just starting to bud today. I picked a baggie full. Rinsed them in cold water a couple times then boiled, drained and added some butter. Not to bad.
Bjrogg
Title: Re: Milkweed pod season!
Post by: JEB on August 21, 2019, 04:43:54 pm: You guys got something against a can of veggies, lol
Title: Re: Milkweed pod season!
Post by: Danzn Bar on August 21, 2019, 05:27:26 pm: I'm with JEB.
DBar...
Title: Re: Milkweed pod season!
Post by: Hawkdancer on August 21, 2019, 10:15:17 pm: Not sure about the milkweed out here, but I got a bunch of zucchini and yellow squash coming in! If I verload real bad, I have a friend who feeds her dogs raw food, and they like zucchini!. Won't be foraging much with the bum knee, but there is a bunch of choke cherries just down the road!
Hawkdancer
Title: Re: Milkweed pod season!
Post by: bjrogg on August 25, 2019, 05:45:10 pm: Yah I don't care for most caned vegetables. I do like caned peas. Otherwise I'll gladly take fresh and often time raw. I love asparagus and if it taste anything like asparagus I had to try it. I don't think it's exactly like asparagus, but it is pretty tasty. Even my daughter thought it was good.
Bjrogg
Title: Re: Milkweed pod season!
Post by: Russ on August 25, 2019, 08:02:21 pm: fresh corn on the cobs my favorite. then it has to be my dads bok choi, chinese brocoli, and baby bok choi in soy sauce and brown sugar.