Gourmet Weeds

<p>Welcome to our Ozarks! Whether you're a tourist just passing through a newbie to the area or someone who has lived in the Ozarks for a long time we want to share an aspect of the Ozarks that is near and dear to our hearts. In this folksy narrator-style cookbook we of Ozark Grannies' Secrets want to share some of our knowledge of forageable foods with you.</p><p><br></p><p>So what will we at Ozark Grannies' Secrets share with you today in the first book in our series? Grab a glass of sweet tea scooch up to the table and pay attention to our unique yarns. We want to entertain you with stories and share how you can make larruping good Ozark dishes with forageable greens fruits vegetables and nuts to stretch your food dollars using some of the natural foods available to us here in the Ozarks. These aren't just weeds they are gourmet weeds!</p><p><br></p><p>In this little volume we are sharing recipes information and delicious recipes about common Ozark plants.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Ozark Forageable Greens </strong>including<strong> </strong>Asparagus Chickweed Red Clover White Clover Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) Orange Daylily greens Green Brier Henbit Dead Nettle Lady's Thumb and Knotweed and their many varieties Smartweed Lamb's Quarters Live Forever Wild Mustard Stinging Nettle Perilla Mint Plantain Poke Sallet Common Purslane Redbud Reindeer Lichen Sassafras (sassafras albidum)  Dock curly Spiderwort Violet and Watercress</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Ozark Forageable Fruits                                                   </strong></p><p>Autumn Olive Blackberry Black Raspberry Crab Apple Common Elderberries Grapes Huckleberry Deerberry Red Mulberries Passionflower Pawpaw Persimmons Wild Plums Black Cherry and Other Stone Fruit.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Ozark Forageable Vegetables                                            </strong></p><p>Ostrich Fern Fiddleheads Garlic Morel Mushrooms False Morels Prickly Pear Common Thistle Burdock Cattail Waterlilies Jerusalem Artichoke and even Orange Daylily. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Ozark Forageable Nuts                                                </strong></p><p> Acorns from the White Oak family Hickory Nuts Hazelnuts and Black Walnuts. </p><p><br></p><p>It's more than a cookbook of natural foods either. There are stories told about the Ozarks by people from the Ozarks told in a way that only a person from the Ozarks could tell them.</p>