dandelion greens

Dandelion Pesto Pizza – Part 3 in Dandelion Greens Week!

This is part 3 in what has turned into “Dandelion Greens Week.”   Sorry  for not proclaiming the week as such in advance, I guess I’m not such a great planner…. Oh, and I’m sharing the recipe at Food Renegade’s Fight Back Friday. This pizza is pretty simple; it is a pizza with Dandelion Pesto as the base, topped […]

Spring Greenakopia – Another Way to Use Dandelion Greens!

Flipping through my mom’s copy of The New Moosewood Cookbook several years ago I was instantly drawn to the spanakopita recipe.  It was the copious amounts of feta cheese that drew me in.  I made the dish with some of my parents’ garden-fresh spinach and was amazed at how the dish just “ate” the spinach.  […]

Dandelion Salad with Parsnip “Bacon” and 4 Reasons to Eat Dandelion Greens

(Alternate Title: What to do with all the dandelions that you’ve been weeding!) Before this year I had never really accepted dandelions as an edible plant.  Okay, so I knew that they were edible but I hadn’t bothered trying them.  I believe that the main inspiration in finally trying them this year came from Chef Jeff […]