Re: Dandelion Recipes
In the future, consider cooking the greens. Once they are in flower, it's too late to harvest them, as they will be very, very bitter to eat (in that case, wait until fall after the first frost to pick them-- the bitterness will have decreased). Dandelion greens (leaves) are very nutritious -- and good chopped fresh in salads, but I particularly like them paired with lentils cooked in lentil soup....
As for the flowers, I do like dandelion jelly, and try to make it every year. It's a little bit labor intensive preparing the blossoms (you have to remove all of the green 'caps')-- but they make a gorgeous, sunny yellow jelly (or syrup). Looks like liquid gold. Just google 'dandelion jelly' -- all sorts of recipes will come up....
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