Eat those Magical Dandelions

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Eat these Magical Blossoms

Dandelions are your friend so don't treat them like an enemy. Eat them. Don't poison them! Learn about the dandelion.




Common Dandelions in Great Smokey Mountains National Park, Tennessee, USA

Common Dandelions in Great Smokey Mountains National Park, Tennessee, USA Photographic Print

Jones, Adam

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A Dandelion Lover's Perfect Gift 

Dandelion: Celebrating the Magical Blossom

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This unique homage to the dandelion includes elixirs, potions and cures; recipes; methods for making dandelion tea and wine; and little known lore and history, folk poems, sayings, and superstitions. Illustrated throughout with original oil paintings by the well-known artist Yumi Heo.

This maligned weed is in truth one of the safest and most effective medicinal herbs 

Dandelion Medicine: Remedies and Recipes to Detoxify, Nourish, Stimulate (Storey Medicinal Herb Guide)

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Brigitte will charm and amaze you with lore and many healthful uses of this common wayside weed.

The entire Dandelion plant is edible 

Great coffee flavor Mineral rich Rich & Smooth High antioxidant 

Totally soluble extracts of roasted barley, rye, chicory root, dandelion root and beetroot.

Goosefoot Acres Dandy Blend, Instant Dandelion Beverage, Delicious Coffee Substitute, CAFFEINE-FREE!!! 14.1 oz.

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Blend instant dandelion beverage is the only instant herbal coffee substitute in the United States that features both the health benefits of dandelion and the rich, full-bodied flavor, smoothness and texture of real coffee.

Our Organic Dandelion Tea is certified organic 

Dandelion RootTea Organic - 30 - Bags

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Dandelion is a sun-loving meadow herb that many of us remember from childhood romps through country fields. It is a free-growing perennial that blooms wherever itcan find a sunny bit of earth, and is found in fields and lawns throughout the world. As a tea, Dandelion is warm and soothing, and may bring back a little bit of the child in you!

Dandelion recipes 

French cooking -lesson 1: spring in your plate

three easy recipes using fresh spring ingredients : dandelions and violets .Omelette aux pissenlits (dandelion omelette ) dandelion salad and crystallized violets you can use in yugurts , ice-creams or cakes . Then a tip to make a traditional French salad dressing .

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The Dandelion - a gift from God for little girls who love to pick flowers. 

Don't forget the popular Dandelion Wine! 

Dandelion Wine
Dandelion Wine
Makes about 4 gallons
Pick 2 to 3 gallons of fresh, yellow dandelion flower tops. Remove all green.
1. Slice up three oranges and two lemons and one pound of raisins.
2. Put all this into a primary fermentor and pour four gallons of boiling water over the flowers, raisins and fruit. Let the mixture cool overnight.
3. Add enough sugar to bring the SG to 1.090 to 1.100 and add one pack of wine yeast.
4. After 10 days strain out the flowers and fruits and siphon into a carboy and attach an airlock ferment 30 days.
5. Rack and put back into carboy for further fermenting.
6. After 90 days rack again and bottle when clear.
It is ready to drink in 6 months. This recipe is said to be good for rose petal wine in a similar manner.

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Dandelion, Flowers and Seed Heads, Spring

Dandelion, Flowers and Seed Heads, Spring Photographic Print

Boag, David

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NAIZA wrote...

Dandelion is awesome flower! But it's rarely found in here in the tropics. :)

ReplyPosted January 19, 2009

clouda9 wrote...

I was all set to try some recipes I found on the Internet this past Spring...that is until we got goats. They seem so much more unappetizing when you have to flick goat poo's off of em' before you pick. :) All kidding aside I love this lens and message.

ReplyPosted October 30, 2008

tbrown98366 wrote...

There are so many reasons to eat and incorporate Dandelions into our culunary consciousness. I'm so glad to have seen your site today. I wrote about Dandelions here: http://friendless1966.home.services.spaces.live.com

ReplyPosted October 12, 2008

arsen3 wrote...

I love your blog. Dandelion is realy mafical, could be used for many medical and cooking purposes. I have a blog about Dandelion, you are welcom to visit. Tea Dandelion.

ReplyPosted August 09, 2008

Irenemaria wrote...

I did make Dandelion Wine once. Just that feeling of drinking yellow flowers was worth it!

ReplyPosted June 12, 2008

 
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A dandelion filled field in Rogers Pass 

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