Immature Pokeweed
For Crystal!
This is when Poke is safe to eat. Wash and par boil and drain the water. We use Poke until the berries start to come. Older leaves may need two changes of water to get the bitterness out.
You'll find poke just about anywhere the soil has been disturbed. It grows along our road and places where we've cleared and graded the land. It grows in vacant lots, and the other day I saw it beside the fiberglass columns at a local store.
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4 comments:
that is so cool, i never knew any of that!
My 12-year is a vegetarian, but I'm not sure I can convince her.
Thank you! I'm going to search for some tomorrow!
I have eaten poke. The couple who were our janitors at school back in the seventies would cook a pot of "poke salad" occasionally and shared it with me a time or two. They were so afraid of the poison that they cooked it to death. But with lots of bacon grease, who cares. Bacon makes any thing taste good. (Don't tell my vegetarian daughter!)
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