"You cannot forget if you would those golden kisses all over the cheeks of the meadow, queerly called dandelions." - Henry Ward Beecher
Put that stubborn backyard weed to better use... on your dinner table! Dandelions can be a yummy addition to a fresh salad, or can even be used to make a coffee-like drink. They also can be used in soups and as their own side dish.
Recipe Collections
Each of these sites has multiple recipes for dandelions, both raw and cooked. I like to pick fresh dandelion greens from the backyard and add them to salad where the lettuces are softer and sweeter. The fresh dandelion gives the mix a bit of tang and bite.
- Dandelion Recipes
- ways to use dandelions in cooking, recipes for foods made from dandelions
- Dandelion Recipes at Food Down Under Recipe Database
- Dandelion Recipes at Food Down Under Recipe Database - 57 Recipes for dandelion - 200000+ Recipes for Lovers of Food
- Wild Foods, Dandelion Recipes and more!
- Dandelions are in incredibly nutritious and delicious food. Check out one of my favorite dandelion recipes...
- Dandelion Recipes
- Cream of Dandelion Soup, Pumpkin-Dandelion Soup, Dandelion Egg and Pasta Salads and much more1
- Sunrise Herb Farm - Recipes
- Sunrise Herb Farm - natural remedies and nourishing foods for health, vitality and better living
- astray recipes: dandelion recipes
- 94 recipes matching "dandelion"
- Mariquita Farm's Newsletter - Dandelion Recipes
- The first mention of the Dandelion as a medicine is in the works of the Arabian physicians of the tenth and eleventh centuries, who speak of it as a sort of wild Endive, under the name of Taraxcacon. In England, there is allusion to it in the Welsh medicines of the thirteenth century. Dandelion was much valued as a medicine in the times of Gerard and Parkinson, and is still extensively employed.
- Delicious Dandelions
- If you&'re tired of trying to get rid of the dandelions in your yard, you might want to try cooking with them instead! Try these delicious and healthy dandelion recipes.
Dandelion Cookbooks
The Dandelion Celebration: A Guide to Unexpected Cuisine
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Dandelions Are Free
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The Neighborhood Forager: A Guide for the Wild Food Gourmet
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The Edible Salad Garden (Edible Garden Series)
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When To Pick Dandelions
Although edible all season, picking dandelion leaves in the early spring or late fall (after the first frost) will get you greens that are less bitter
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Dandelion Drinks
- How to Make Roasted Dandelion Root Coffee
- Roasted Dandelion Root Coffee is a surprisingly delicious beverage! It closely resembles coffee in flavor and body when brewed properly. I serve it at all my workshops and presentations and am always amused by the response. People tend to hesitantly sample it with a look of serious doubt on their faces, and the next thing you know the whole pot disappears!
- Fun With Dandelions
- Using dandelions to make a coffee substitute, tincture, aperitif, vinegar or oil
- winemaking: dandelion wines
- Two recipes for making wine from the common dandelion flower.
- Recipe - Dandelion Wine
- Dandelion wine does not require any special equipment to make. Just dandelions, some sugar and yeast, oranges and lemons, and pots to boil water in. This recipe uses cloves, which I think give it a nice touch. If you have dandelions around, give it a try!
Dandelion Cooking Videos
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Dandelion Cooking Comments and Contributions
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- _Joan_ _Joan_ Aug 16, 2009 @ 10:26 pm
- Hi! You've been added to the "Squidoo lenses on edible wild plants" lens.
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- LindaJM LindaJM Jul 25, 2009 @ 2:17 pm
- Dandelion greens, first thing in the springtime, are delicious. Thanks for all the leads to dandelion cooking sites.
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- PeacefulWmn9 PeacefulWmn9 Jul 3, 2009 @ 12:19 am
- I can remember picking dandelion greens as a young child. Both of my parents knew how to cook and season them very well. They were yummy!
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- dannystaple dannystaple Apr 7, 2009 @ 3:28 am
- I remember dandelion greens are a little like rocket. Dandelion petals were really bitter though. I have not eaten them in years - but perhaps we can make use of them.
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- CherylK CherylK Jun 23, 2008 @ 8:22 pm
- I remember my grandmother serving dandelion greens. They were really GOOD! I certainly enjoyed this lens...brought back some good memories.
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