Healthy Vegan - From Weed to Dinner Plate: Eating Dandelion Leaves
The weather was fantastic over the weekend and like many people with gardens or allotment plots, I was out working in mine. Between the two of us, we got loads done including a lot of weeding including dandelions . The potatoes have gone in. I have sowed many seeds. The seeds I sowed two weeks ago have germinated, tomatoes, courgettes, chard, broad beans and some have not. I will up-date my Sowing The Seeds page to let you know what I am attempting to grow this year, bu t today, I am sharing my dinner plate of v egan meatballs on a bed of wilted dandelion leaves. I was inspired by a recipe for Fried Dandelion Greens with Lemon and Garlic Potatoes I saw in Street Vegan by Adam Sobel . My food presentation is not good, a little corny I think but the finished dish was delicious. The meatballs were zinging and the spicy herby coating infuse the crispy brown exterior of the veggie meatballs. The sauteed dandelion greens were not at all bi...