Welcome to this bilingual (Swedish-English) group blog by family members living on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, "the pond". Our interests range from the scientific to the eclectic, including gourmet food, horses, art and literature, computers, species in nature, history and iron, and photography. Three generations are posting here.
Monday, May 12, 2008
What do to with 'kirskål'?
While surfing today I came across a recipe for muffins with ground-elder. What is that? Turns out it is the same as the horrible kirskål weed in EH's garden (and at Barking Dog plaza too). It spreads with underground rhizomes like a green plague. So here EH, time to take out the muffin pans and send out the boys to cut down some weedy leaves. I remember mom cooking this for us as kids and trying to make us believe it was spinach, but we weren't fooled. In muffins it probably tastes better.
Trust me, it's indeed lovely in muffins :) Just remember to use only the smallest leaves, the ones which are still light green and not fully opened!
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ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting! EH, you will have to pull of all the big nasty leaves and wait for young ones to come up!
Haha, I just made a delicious kirskål-stew for the dreaded "mullsorkar" (rodents), with the lawnmower no less! ;)
ReplyDeleteGood planning O.K., now the little shoots will start sprouting and you can pick them for muffins. And then you feed the muffins to the rodents, spiked with something....
ReplyDeleteI still have vivid memories of the "spinach" from my childhood. Who needs kirskål when you can have blueberry-muffins?
ReplyDeleteJust mix the kirskal with muffin and strychnine and feed the mullsorkar...
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