Tag: <span>wild</span>

Wild-herbed Ricotta Cheese

What do you do with soured milk? Make cheese!!! I typically make my own cheese salsa dip (recipe near bottom of this post) these days, but for some time now, I’ve been wanting to make a batch of wild-herbed ricotta. I was making my son’s Caesar salad dressing this morning …

Senior Health, Nutrition, and Your Pocketbook

Read two articles today on orthomolecular medicine and the elderly. One article was an 18 page paper on using nutrition, specifically vitamin supplements in high doses, to treat and sometimes reverse senility. Vit B3 (Niacin) in its form as nicotinic acid allowed one doctor in the early ’70’s, to reverse …

Wild Adventures Part 2 – Taste-tests as the Research Continues

So far in our research and taste-testing, we pretty much have the makings of a spinach salad replacement figured out.  Everyone has taste-tested Dandelion leaves, Dandelion flowers, chickweed, plantain, and purslane.  Based on the research I’ve been putting into these plants and creating a spreadsheet to compare nutritional value, uses, …