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[Rik vonTrense]

The sticky weed will not let me get to my greenhouse even keeping to the path it completely envelopes me before halfway there and it is a battle with the stinging nettles at six to seven feet high to get back..............


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[Oddley]

It seems to me, some nettle soup might be in order. I absolutely love nettle soup, just can't get the nettles.

[Rik vonTrense]

Please share with the recipe then............

Maybe I can sell some on a stall outside the burned out garage as I am still getting rubberneckers arriving by the coachload.............


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[Oddley]

It's been years since I have made nettle soup. I always take the freehand approach to soup making. I usually make a good stock vegetable in this case using the likes of carrot, onion, leeks, and a bouquet garnie of celery, bay, parsley etc. Then load's of nettles the young ones are best.

The reason I like nettle soup is, the nettle has a very delicate taste, but be careful if I remember correctly no matter what I used to protect myself, I was always stung.

Perhaps your burning garage is a good business opportunity. Start conducting guided tours with the harrowing story of your escape and a light lunch thrown in (nettle soup) for �2.50 a head...

Sorry to hear about that btw and glad you and your's are OK.

[aris]

The moor behind my house is overrun with nettles - you are welcome to come and help yourself

[Wohoki]

Nettles are nice if you treat the top-shoots like spinach. Particularly good steamed, squeezed dry and chopped, then mashed with spuds, salt and pepper and lots of butter heated in some milk.

For nettle soup just substitute the spinach in a spinach soup, but the flavour is a little less rubust, so use a light veg or chicken stock.

[Oddley]

Thanks for the offer aris. But if there ain't concrete beneath my boots I'm not happy.

[Wohoki]

Maybe Aris could start an small business shipping weed to London, I hear there's good money in it

[Oddley]

I've been stung like that before!...

[Wohoki]

Haven't we all (actually probably not, but I prefer to see my vegetable matter before I cough-up these days, particularly when it's, ahem, nettles )

[saucisson]

I lost the battle...
Got halfway across the jungle and the drive shaft on the strimmer snapped. All the local garden centres seem to concentrate on scented candles and crystal rose vases these days, not a decent strimmer to be had anywhere.

Dave

[Rik vonTrense]

Sometime ago I read that nettles only grow where humans had done something or the other and I can't remember what it was now......

anyone know what it is ???

[Spuddy]

Forgotten to do the weeding?:)

I know that the makers of Cornish Yarg cheese (which has nettles on the rind) tried to cultivate the nettles they use and gave up as they just wouldn't grow where they wanted them to grow so they just have to rely on the wild ones growing around them. So maybe the answer is "not tried to grow them"

Do you know?

[Ken D]

Sidebar: in lieu of a dedicated patty maker, you can always give this a try: using about a Kilo (more or less, depending on how many patties you want, of prepared mince, make all the balls, but leave them in the same bowl you did the prep in !!
Next, take a sheet of ordinary waxed apaper, about 1/2 a meter long, more or less.
Place a ball of mince at the halfway point of the paper, fold over, and whack it with the bowl of balls. The flat, round part of the mixing bowlmakes a nice patty.
Depending on how big the patty balls are, how hard you come down, determines the thickess, and diameter of the patty.
This method keeps the dish count low, and the counter top clean, as you toss the paper, and wash the bowl.
Works for me, your mileage may vary.
Rock on....Kennie Dee

[georgebaker]

Hi
Rik said

Sometime ago I read that nettles only grow where humans had done something or the other and I can't remember what it was now......

anyone know what it is ???

Yes, I do but I am not sure you really want the answer. Request a PM if you are serious

George