Made it home in time for the seasonal opening of the market, come rain or shine, the Farmers market always reassures me that Spring is on the way.
Nettles were available from some farmers. Listed as a power food, stinging nettles are high on the list as a Spring tonic.
If you have ever touched a nettle you know how badly they hurt, so how did people get to the point of eating them. How did they discover dipping them in boiling water took the sting out?
Wear gloves and eat on!
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I just tried nettles for the first time last week and those were my thoughts exactly... who was the brave person who first ate stinging nettles!? My boss made fresh nettle tea for us and then wrote about it on our blog (I can't say that it was delicious, but I drank up because we'd also been taste testing a lot of cheese that day and I needed to off-set it with something healthy!) MarxFoods.com
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