Guest guest Posted April 6, 2004 Report Share Posted April 6, 2004 In a message dated 4/6/04 2:51:19 AM Pacific Daylight Time, writes: Wow I am impressed! This is a very gourmet and special salad. Where do you find all the very special ingredients? I have a Wild Oats nearby and farmer's markets...but I've never seen "wood violet blossoms", sour grass, burnet leaves and the like. Have a great Spring! Kristina Wild Spring Flower Salad Ingredients: 1/3 cup wood violet blossoms 2 cup wood violet leaves 1 cup young dandelion greens 1/3. cup sour grass (clover like wood sorrel) 1/4 cup salad burnet leaves 4 cup other lettuce 1/2 cup toasted walnuts 1/2 cup drained mandarin oranges (from can) 1/2 cup fresh or partially thawed frozen raspberries raspberry or tangerine vineagretteDirections: Toast walnuts and cool. Toss all ingredients and serve on a lovely bright spring dayServes 4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 6, 2004 Report Share Posted April 6, 2004 sour grass grows wild all over the place here..its wood sorrel, oxalis grass... the recipe is from someone in texas, and she can find all that stuff down the street from her house if you can't find stuff like that yerself, improvise!!! go to yer local farmers market and look around... add flowers fer color...marigold petals, nasturtiums....at most of our local farmers markets they sell bags of greens with edible flowers already mixed in... there are no wild oats around here anymore(there was one, but it changed owners 3 times in the last as many years it seems...and is some weird half empty naural type store now),but the ones i've been to in SoCal and Colorado seem to have a good selection of greens...look around.try something new..heck, as the person workin in that department, they might have some good ideas... cheers fraggle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 6, 2004 Report Share Posted April 6, 2004 I shopped at the Wild Oats in Fair Oaks, CA when I was in college. I love that store! Love, Anna >EBbrewpunx > > >Re: Re:What to serve on Easter >Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:28:55 EDT > >sour grass grows wild all over the place here..its wood sorrel, oxalis >grass... >the recipe is from someone in texas, and she can find all that stuff down >the >street from her house >if you can't find stuff like that yerself, improvise!!! > >go to yer local farmers market and look around... >add flowers fer color...marigold petals, nasturtiums....at most of our >local >farmers markets they sell bags of greens with edible flowers already mixed >in... >there are no wild oats around here anymore(there was one, but it changed >owners 3 times in the last as many years it seems...and is some weird half >empty >naural type store now),but the ones i've been to in SoCal and Colorado seem >to >have a good selection of greens...look around.try something new..heck, as >the >person workin in that department, they might have some good ideas... >cheers >fraggle _______________ Free up your inbox with MSN Hotmail Extra Storage! Multiple plans available. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us & page=hotmail/es2 & ST=1/go/onm00200362ave/dire\ ct/01/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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