I’ve had a taste for spring greens and finally got some last week.
We enjoy dandelion greens cooked, sautéed, and wilted. The simplest way to cook them is with scrambled eggs.
Dandelions grow most everywhere. Our mountain holler is chock full of them.
One quick walk around the house and I had enough to make Matt and me a dandy dinner.
The recipe couldn’t be simper.
Wash the greens and pat dry. Chop them up into bite size pieces and then toss them in your beaten eggs before scrambling them.
I only add salt and pepper but you can add any spices you’d like.
A piece of fried cornbread alongside the dandelion eggs makes for a feast! I pulled a few of our green onions to add to the meal. Even though we’ve been eating our multiplying onions all year the fresh green ones are just so special and add a real brightness to any meal.
Here’s a two other ways to use dandelions:
Last night’s video: Matt’s A Hermit || We Got What We Needed.
Tipper
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Tipper, last night’s video made me a tad envious!! The beautiful trees and green grass. We have all but a little bit of snow gone….thankfully yesterday’s 4 inches did not happen. Just a smattering of light flurries. Spring will come and I am looking forward to dandelions! I love their yellow heads and now I will have to try eating the leaves. My grandmother made dandelion wine…..Or so she said! Everybody have a blessed Monday❤️
Not had this, though I have had dandelion jelly. My mom would cook poke with eggs. Man, it was good! I don’t trust myself to safely make the poke, so I haven’t had it since my sweet ol Mother Goose passed away 11yrs ago. Spinach is good, but poke was better, I need to try it with dandelions!
Boy, does this sound good for any meal. A wonderful Spring recipe…so simple, so tasty!
Reminds me of the tales of my mother and her mother digging up the dandelion greens. She made them sauteing them with garlic and oil. I suppose that if that’s not spicy enough for you, you can always add red pepper flakes.
Tipper,
You bring back mighty fine memories for me. Being Italian, my momma always picked small, young dandelion greens in the spring. In fields around our home. She would make a delicious salad with them, using them like lettuce or she would saute them in garlic and olive oil and then serve with polenta. I also loved them when she made minestra, which is the dandelion greens, maybe some swiss chard and cabbage, kale, any greens of your choice, with cannellini beans a ham hock and some chicken stock and water. It was always delicious.
This makes me curious because my Mama fixed poke sallet in a similar fashion except after boiling and chopping the greens, she mixed the cornmeal, oil and eggs all together and scrambled them. I wonder where she came up with that method. I’ll have to try fixing the corn bread on the side next time.
Matt, love your tee shirt!
Mmmmm looks delicious—I think one of the first videos I watched of yours you were harvesting some hostas to cook and eat. My memory is not very good these days but I think that was the first one I saw–that has been several years ago.
Morning everyone. I hope you got rain, we got lots. I can’t really say we needed it though. When we lived in California, we ate dandelions all the time. We didn’t pick them because cars can’t drive too close to food, the carbon monoxide gets into them. In the town in the mountains they sold dandelions in their vegetable department. This was a more expensive grocery store that catered to skiers and campers, olympic snowboarders practiced up there. Down the mountain were a lot of the farms that sold to stores, so we could get fruit others couldn’t. When my dad died, we moved back down to my mom by the beach. There was a marina next to her. Very expensive apartments and condos. They had a Ralph’s grocery. It wasn’t more expensive than others. Since it is a large grocery chain they have to charge the same prices. They sold dandelions regularly. Surprising? You have to remember that California has a lot of hunters, farming, outdoors people, mountain people. Not to mention “hippies”. They are now the business owners. Fancy houses on the beach or in wealthy areas have vegetable gardens. The marina by my mom had a yearly fishing derby. I had fresh halibut yearly. I always miss the mountains, and the food. California has a lot of good, but too much bad. I’m seeing dandelions everywhere, hmm. Anna from Arkansas.
good morning friends, I don’t know about dandelion greens, I guess they might be good, if everything goes well I’m going to the doctor over Gainesville on Wednesday, say what can be done about some of my problems, why my blood work numbers have been messed up, hopefully we can locate the problem, please prpleaor me thank you and God bless you each and everyone in Jesus name
Norman I pray they can help!
Will continue to pray, Norman. May the physicians have wisdom and discernment. We speak and pray healing over Mr. Norman in Jesus mighty Name.❤️
Last night I opened a can of Tipper bean. I had cornbread with them and sprouted onions for supper.
Against all advice, I keep my onions in the refrigerator and sometimes they start to sprout after a few weeks. That’s what I ate last night, sprouted Vidalia onions, homegrown Tipper beans and cornbread.
I had planned to eat some dandelion greens this spring but it hasn’t been a good year for them here. They are little and flat against the ground. And they don’t have an appetizing color. The ones that came up when straight to seed. Maybe some rain in the future will bring them back out and I can have a mess.
Oh, and shame on me, I keep my potatoes in the refrigerator too!
That is buttercups that tell whether you like butter. Dandelions are for wishing – also known as fairy clocks when they are in the fuzzy stage. Violets are up waiting to be included in salads, candied and transformed into beautiful jelly. Fiddlehead ferns are quickly unfurling. Enjoying ramps in salads, soups – everything. Mushrooms are playing find me if you can. Waiting for poke to get knee-high. Transplanted many wonderful wild edibles from our Maryland farm to my retirement home in Connecticut. Covered my plants last night because of threatening frost, freeze and snow flurries!
Good morning Tipper and Acorns. I brought in my little lavender plant last night and covered my grape vine with a 5-gallon bucket. That breakfast for dinner sure looks good. All this rain has revived my dead yard. Wildflowers are everywhere. I love it. The grass has even gone to seed. Most of the clover is up from seed but it isn’t blooming yet. It is 34 right now but that breeze is freezing. It is a glorious morning. I gotta get going and wash bed clothes. I keep everyone here and up Wilson Holler in my prayers. I love y’all.
Never had them….but I love other greens. I will have to take a walk in my yard today! It is so dry here, not sure if I can get them out of the ground!
Very few wild flowers are growing around my area this year because of the drought. I thought we might get a little bit of rain yesterday, but we never got a drop of rain hopefully a better chance of rain this coming weekend and next week.
This is for Matt, I like your shirt even though we have two of the upper series of JD lawn mowers and my son bought a new JD 5065E (65hp) tractor about ten years ago. My friend has his own saying about JD-nothing runs like a deere or smells like a john. Kubota is a mighty good tractor.