Swamp of the Day 10/09/10
Cattail Flower Refrigerator Pickles Enough cattail flowerheads to tightly fill a quart jar, about 30 or 40 4 garlic cloves, peeled 1 tsp whole black peppercorns 4 to 6 bay leaves ¾ cup apple cider vinegar (use some of your herbal vinegar!) 1½ cups olive oil 3 Tbsp salt 1¼ cups water 1. Boil the [...]
Swamp of the Day 10/08/2010
Cattail Hotdish 3 cups cattail flowerbuds, scraped off the “cobs” (about 40 flowerheads) 1 egg ¼ tsp nutmeg ½ tsp salt ¼ tsp black pepper ½ cup milk 1 cup soft breadcrumbs 1 cup grated cheese 1. Cook cattail flowerheads in boiling water for 5-10 minutes. 2. Scrape the flowerbuds off the cob to make [...]
Swamp of the Day 10/07/10
Cattail Stir-fry Gather your cattail leaves/shoots and pull off the tough/fibrous outer leaves until you reach the tender white inner core of the cattail heart. Wash them thoroughly and cut into roughly 4” pieces. Put a healthy amount of high-heat cooking oil in the bottom of your skillet. Put in your burdock root slices into [...]
Swamp of the Day 10/06/10
Cattail Wild-Rice Soup 1 cup dry wild rice (4 cups cooked) 2 Tbsp sesame oil ½ cup chopped green onion 2 cups cattail shoots, sliced (about 30 cattails) 2 tsp salt Cook the wild rice until tender. In a heavy-bottomed soup pot sauté onion and cattail shoots in sesame oil until tender and translucent. Add [...]
Swamp of the Day
Cat-on-the-Cob with Garlic Butter 30-40 cattail flowerheads, peeled Garlic butter: ½ cup unsalted butter ½ cup olive oil ½ teaspoon salt 12 garlic cloves, crushed 1 cup freshly chopped wild greens (or parsley or other fresh garden herbs) Make garlic butter in a food processor by whipping the butter, oil, salt, fresh garlic and parsley [...]
