I gathered some more nettles this afternoon. I wanted to cook more for dinner and also to juice the stems and save some of the tender tops for a nettle smoothie.
I juiced them with an apple and lemon.
I call it Nettle Lemonade.
I had this around 4 pm. Around 2 pm had a small collard wrap with some cooked nettles and vegan sausage and a slice of my zucchini bread with earth balance. It was a very satisfying snack.
I'm really glad that the boy eats my sneaky zucchini bread. I will have to write up the recipe.
My juicer isn't the right kind for juicing leaves and stems but I got about a 1/4 cup out of the stems in the bowl shown in the photo below. I'd say it was about a cup of stems. I wore rubber gloves and cut them up with scissors in about 1" pieces so the fibers wouldn't get stuck. Long fibers like with celery and beet stalks, etc do not get along with my juicer, either. boo.
I put the rest of the large leaves in a pot with some water and leeks to cook up for dinner.
There are the little spikes that cause all the trouble.
I brushed my forearm with some but it was after I had rinsed them in hot water and I don't think they were active anymore so no rash, no burning. I'll keep trying.
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