3 WAYS TO USE SPRING DANDELIONS ~ FORAGING

[Music] what's up homestead home easy software with Doug and Stacey and it's my favorite time of year with my favorite planner herb it's Dee aniline season and springtime is the best time to collect those dandelions because they are power packed with so much nutrition and vitamins and just it's like a health elixir it's wonderful and I love it and so what I wanted to do is bring you guys along I'm gonna go ahead and get a bunch of these dandelion flowers and give you three recipes today that you can do simple easy at home the first thing we need to do is clean off the data lines because the one thing with the inter lines no matter where you get them from they always have a little ants on them so I'm gonna do kind of a vinegar and water solution and just kind of let them soak into it so that they'll rinse off and another thing make sure that your dandelions are not anywhere any pesticides or any you know bad things are around them so dogs or whatever so just make sure that you're in a clean area don't get them someplace where they're going ahead and putting pesticides on them we're gonna let this go for about five minutes to get rid of the bugs and clean it out and I'm just gonna dump it through the strainer like so and then the green part is bitter I'm gonna leave mine on because I'm gonna do two different recipes where it's really not gonna make much of a difference but I know a lot of people you could get them and then get the scissors and then snip off the greens for the greens a little bit better and let me tell you a little bit something about dandelions the whole plant the flower the stem the roots the leaves everything is edible and in traditional Chinese medicine they touted for its digestive properties I mean it's just amazing what it can do to help it's it's a bitter food so it does help with digestion and it also helps to help break down the fats a little quicker when you're eating foods and another one is an Indian Ayurvedic medicine they love it because of its detoxification it's great for your liver it's something that is just very helpful for people's health so I'm gonna do two recipes real quick right here the first one is going to be a vinegar so I'm gonna get a quart size jar so I'm gonna put all my flowers in there with a little bit of this the green on it and I'm gonna just fill this up and then once it's filled up and you don't want to pack it hard I'm just gonna kind of fill it up loosely and then I'm gonna add some of my raw apple cider vinegar that I made so I'm gonna turn this over here and I'm just gonna cover it and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put a lid on it and since there is vinegar in here it will eat away at the metal in the lid on the mason jar so I'm gonna put the parchment you can put a piece of plastic whatever you want push that all in there and I'm gonna cover it just like this I'm gonna put it in a dark place for about a month for weeks or so and then after that time I'm gonna strain it and I will have this wonderful dandelion vinegar that I can utilize and put it in my salad dressings and then I'll get that extra added benefit of the vitamins of daling and you know what's really cool about dandelions is you know the alphabet ABCD and he has all those vitamins in it too ABCD it's got magnesium it has all these minerals it's just fabulous recipe number two is I'm going to make an iced tea iced and aligned teeth and the cool thing about this is you have your base you have your dandelions so I'm gonna put this in I'm just using a half gallon you can do a gallon you know whatever you want to do that's the cool thing I always say about cooking you can fit it to what your needs are so if you have people over then you can make a bigger batch so I'm gonna kind of just fill this up about halfway if you want to just leave it like that and put your water in you can but I'm gonna add something to this everything's kind of starting to grow so I have some fresh mint I'm gonna put some peppermint in there and I have some lemon balm I'm gonna put some lemon balm in there also for a sweetener you can choose between maple syrup raw honey or your green stevia so it's very easy to grow stevia if you have not done it before so if you can find the seeds or get them somewhere grow them it grows very easy and then this is just powdered I just dried it out and then turn it into a powder so I'm gonna do some stevia in this one today I'm gonna put up a little bit in there so I boiled it and then let it set out for a little bit and now I'm gonna let it steep just like you'd make a tea that's what we're making huh and I'm just gonna let this set for about half an hour in 30 minutes I'm gonna go ahead and strain this first and what I'm gonna go ahead and use the leftover greens and the dandelion and put it in the compost push out all the good stuff I'm gonna put this back into my jar and then because it had the flowers in there and some of those screams from the herbs it's not gonna be quite the half gallon so you made a little bit of a concentrate I'm gonna go ahead and book but and fill it up to the top and all I do is put it on it and put it in the refrigerator and I'll have iced tea for a few days laughs just like you would have a tea you know after a while it may start tasting bad if you leave it in too long over like over a week but for a few days don't taste great you know two three four days getting ready for a recipe number three this one is gonna be a Green so I'm going to get the greens and I let them go freely in my garden I'm gonna keep the root in there now you use I'm not this recipes are the recipes I'm doing today don't have anything to do with the root because I'll do a recipe on the roots later but today's just have to do with the flowers and the leaves greens and you know it's interesting the name dandelion dint align it's because the dandelion leaf and it looks like a lion's tooth I thought that that's not a very good one but I washed the dandelion greens and then picked out all the bad stuff and now I'm just using my scissors and I'm gonna cut them up in littler pieces so I turned this into a chopped dandelion green salad so here's my chopped and aligned greens that have been washed and then whenever you're preparing greens kale especially those good mustard greens and things like that it's really good to put lemon juice in there and squeeze lemon juice in there because it helps break down the fibers in the arm in the greens it really helps with the taste so I put a whole lemon in there here comes my magic ingredients I love the red red onions I like a lot of onions you put as much as you want in there so I put your onions in there and then some walnuts some feta cheese I like feta too and then here's the yumminess the medjool dates so I went ahead and just cut them up took the pit out of him these are amazing if you guys don't know what a date is or if you ever tried one they're definitely worth it but it has to be the medjool because they're meaty and sweet and they're wonderful homemade salad dressing all this is is a little bit of honey raw honey two parts of extra virgin olive oil and one part of apple cider vinegar ROG cider vinegar and I just shake it up and I have my homemade dressing I'm gonna just pour a little bit over that and I'm gonna mix it up and it's going to be Doug a nice appetizer because dandelion greens are great to help with digestion to get the digestive process started and we're gonna do this before our main meal today so I'm getting ready putting them in the bowls from Ayers pottery love my bowls and for you guys this is dandelion greens are also a diuretic because it's a good detoxifier it helps cleanse through the liver so if you're probably on like water pills or anything take a diuretic you might want to check with your doctor just like anything else if you're allergic to anything in a sunflower family just check with your healthcare provider and find out if taking duck data lines or eating things with XANA lines okay and Doug will be right in he's not cutting the grass man and we're from coal to kind of warm to nice and hot and sunny so I'm out cutting the grass if you guys don't get that grass cut right off the bat in springtime that stuff will jump up from that sunshine so fast and you'll be like out there bogging down that mower and choking out the blades whoo what a Masshole I'm up there trying to get that done Stacy made a nice dandelion and so I'm putting those on top I just want to remind you guys there's only like three more days or something a couple more days till the end of the month so if you guys are gonna submit one of your videos for the camera giveaway make sure you're on top of that and also we're gonna be announcing the homestead homi of the month winners don't forget every month we'll be giving away a stainless steel bowl and a Ayres pottery pie plate let's see it yeah all the colors will vary they'll just be shipping them out 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Length: 11min 50sec (710 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 27 2018