Nettle soup
The garden is full of stinging nettles at the moment, vicious little bastards. What better way to show them who’s boss than to make nettle soup. I collected a large pot full of the shoots and heads, which turned out to be about enough for two people:
This is the soup, with a sprig of mint leaves (also from the garden). Very delicious — we should eat nettle soup more often.
April 27th, 2008 at 4:02 am
Good morning.
(Your friend, M-kun is still in bed ‘aving jetlag)
It looks very nice!
I wonder what kid of taste the soup is??
I used to drink nettle harb drink - dilute the nettle syrup with water, but it was very sweet.
http://www.kenko.com/product/item/itm_7211350072.html
It says nettles is also used as an ingredient for cakes. Probably N-sama can make another great cakes with nettle?
April 27th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Good morning,
Nettle has quite a distinctive taste. It’s hard to describe - you’d have to try it! There’s no sugar in this of course.
Apparently nettles contain lots of good things like iron, histamine and antioxidants, and are good for “potency” (ask M-kun about it).
Rich.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:54 am
Does it not sting your mouth? I have had a very oishi sashimi salad with cornflakes, also banana and chocolate pocky (which Neko was hiding in the freezer, but i found it ;)
April 28th, 2008 at 4:55 am
Above comment was me.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:57 am
Do not use my name without getting a permission, M-kun.
> M-kun
I didn’t hide it. It’s to prevent pocky from melting!
> Richard
So how was the result after having “nettle”??
Did it make you any difference?
April 28th, 2008 at 7:33 am
above comment is me as well (just I like talking to myself)
April 28th, 2008 at 8:39 am
I knew someone would ask that about stinging the mouth — no, it doesn’t sting. Just bruising the leaves, or cooking them, destroys the stings.
I’m sure my tadpoles are swimming very hard now. Ganbare little tadpoles!
April 29th, 2008 at 12:10 am
おいしかった