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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!

A Dandelion Lover's Perfect Gift 

Dandelion: Celebrating the Magical Blossom

Amazon Price: $12.00 (as of 07/26/2008)

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.

Largest Collection of Dandelion Recipes 

The Great Dandelion Cookbook, Recipes From the National Dandelion Cookoffs & Then Some, 1997 Edition, 162 pages

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This is a 5.5 X 8.5 Spiral Bound Cookbook! Probably the largest collection of recipes using Dandelion and Dandy Blend, on the market. 163 pages.

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.

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 

NOW Foods, Organic Dandelion Tea - 30 Bags

Amazon Price: $2.87 (as of 07/26/2008)

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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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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Irenemaria

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

Posted June 12, 2008

mulberry

Good lens. I need to figure out what to do with these things...sure don't need tips on planting them!

Posted May 17, 2008

A dandelion filled field in Rogers Pass 

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One World A View of 50 Countries

Amazon Price: $37.96 (as of 07/26/2008)

This wonderful photography book is much, much more than a compilation of unique pictures of people, animals and places around the globe. It reflects much, much more than Dr. Lewis' ability to capture on film breath-taking scenery, wild animals and birds, interesting faces, and meaningful snapshots of different cultures around the world.

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