All of you who have been on a walk with me to have : wild flower pesto, eat weeds, tapenade sauvage, munch a bunch of wild flowers, etc... knows I could have a separate post for each foto that could go on longer than any of us have time for! So here are just some pretty photos of a recent walk in La Tzouma where we prepared a wild omelette and made some wild teas!
The bountiful hunt!
Wild yarrow, rose, geranium, daisy, veronica & thyme in this cup of happiness!
Wild spinach, sooo yummie!
Yarrow, good to stop bleeding, and good in salads & teas & pestos!
Phyteuma betonicifolium - Betony-leaved rampion
Thymus - wild thyme
Trifolium pratense - red clover
Wild geraniums
Pretty as decorations, am not sure they really have any taste...?
Alchemilla vulgaris, common lady's mantle
Heracleum sphondylium - common hogweed (what an unfortunate name!!)
Larche tree & norwegian spruce new growths
(they add a lemony taste to things, like an extra natural ziiiing!)
Dandilions
Wild roses
Silene dioica - Red campion
Veronica - spedwell
Forget me not!
Acinos alpinus / Calamintha alpina - Calamint or spring savory
(I am not 100% sure of the name in English, or in Latin, but in French it is called Serpolet)
This is definitely one you want to pick and smell and eat in everything you make! I try to dry it, but it tends to be eaten up so quickly that it is pointless!
The final omlette!
Oh yeah, forgot to mention we caught a wild alpine chicken and she gave us a dozen eggs! ;)