Ugly little greens
Subtitle: gourmet dishes crafted from foraged ingredients
By: Mia Wasilevich
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781624143878
Subjects: Cooking (Wild foods); Cooking (Vegetables); Edible Wild plants; Wild foods; Weeds
Description: "Ugly Little Greens is the must-have foraging guide and cookbook for anyone looking to up their game in the kitchen. Mia Wasilevich shares the notes and dishes she's cultivated over the years while working as a professional chef and educational forager. Her detailed profiles and up close pictures (plus possible look-alikes) allow you to safely find special ingredients to bring new and exciting flavors and textures to everyday dishes. And more importantly, the ingredients are unexpectedly some of the most common and forgotten weeds growing right under your nose and waiting to be harvested from your own backyard and surrounding environment."--provided by Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter one. The weeds in my backyard and beyond; title: Chapter two. Delightfully delicate and tender : shoots, leaves and herbs; title: Chapter three. Unexpected flavor doppelgangers : plantain, mallow and cattail; title: Chapter four. Earthy and spicy brassica : mustard and radish; title: Chapter five. The verdant and herbaceous nettle : it doesn't taste like spinach; title: Chapter six. Dandelions and curly dock : two flavors in one; title: Chapter seven. Lambsquarters : it does taste like spinach; title: Chapter eight. Elderberry and elderflowers : a study in contrasts; title: Chapter nine. Acorns and pines : nutty, meaty goodness and fragrant evergreen essence.