I love cattail roots. Boiled with some meat in a stew they make potatoes seem weak and anemic.
I also like lambs quarters or "poor man's spinach" just sauteed with a little garlic and olive oil or butter.
Also wild wood sorrel is delicious, kind of lemony, as a fresh salad. Just don't eat too much as the oxalic acid can cause some nutritional issues.
From what I've read, only one type of fern bract (fiddle heads) is edible and all ferns send up fiddle head type shoots, so I avoid them. The edible one is from the ostrich fern. |