Garlic mustard

To me, Garlic Mustard Weed isn't a weed, its a salad green, right alongside Mesclun. Maybe because it is so ubiquitous in my area people call it a weed. I call it free food. Garlic mustard weed identification is pretty easy, not many plants look like this. These photos are of a the mustard in...Read More

Did you know invasive garlic mustard is extremely tasty? Here's what to know about foraging and using garlic mustard, plus recipes! #foraging #invasiveplants #garlicmustard | edible wild plants | foraging guides | foraging tips | garlic mustard recipes |

Eat your invasive weeds! Garlic mustard is delicious and easy to forage. Make a tasty vegan pesto in one afternoon and enjoy this savory delight all year round - plus help the biodiversity of your foraging area! Pull it up, chop it up, eat it up!

Words cannot say how much I love Garlic Mustard. Not just because of its velvety emerald coloured leaves, not because it is one the most versatile nutritious greens you can possibly eat, not becaus…

Anyone who's anyone eats hummus. The first time I had hummus, I was also introduced to brie. I was probably 14 or 15 years old at the ...

Garlic mustard, a tasty edible weed, does double duty acting both as the garlic and green in pesto. Garlic mustard is invasive, so harvest to your heart's content.

Learn how to use the garlic mustard plant, one of the oldest spices cultivated in Europe, to make these delicious jumping jack wraps. Horticulturist David Hamilton shares his recipe.

This garlic mustard pesto is mellowed with baby spinach. Who would have thought a common weed could make such a delightful pasta sauce? It does. Put an invasive plant to good use with this tasty ve…

Garlic Mustard, Jack-by-the-Hedge, Hedge Mustard, all names for this plant that seems to grow almost anywhere. Garlic mustard has a flavor that, in the young leaves, taste like a green gentle garlic. As the leaves get older they also take on a bitter edge that can be good in some dishes but that bitterness fades when put with most oils or even butter. This is probably why it is so popular in olive oil heavy pesto. It starts off as a rosette of sorts with several leaves coming off each root…

Garlic mustard ( Alliaria petiolata ) is a biennial herb native to Europe. (Biennial means the plant sends up leaves in its first year and typically flowers in its second.) Brought to the United States in the 1800s as an edible, it has since spread across the northeastern US, the midwest, as far sou

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Store bought horseradish will be a thing of the past when you taste homemade garlic mustard horseradish. Garlic mustard roots taste the same as horseradish and they are easy to harvest!

With a few ingredients from the pantry, and some easy foraging you can make these green, garlicky, vegan garlic mustard ramen noodles in just 10 minutes!

The Edible INVASIVE Weed - Garlic mustard is an edible weed that is determined to spread EVERYWHERE. Learn how to identify this fragrant plant and turn it into something delicious. Includes recipes for garlic mustard pesto and garlic mustard horseradish.

Garlic mustard is a biennial member of the mustard family and is considered an invasive weed, but a tasty one. As its name indicates, it has a garlicky flavor. It has low growing, kidney-shaped leaves that appear in early spring. By mid-spring, a taller flower stalk shoots up and bears white flowers.This history of this plant is interesting as it is native to Europe and Africa. It was brought to the New World in 1868 and was planted in New York. Since that time it has spread across America…

Canned Roasted Garlic Mustard!

A bitter, garlicky pesto made from garlic mustard leaves. Use it as a spread or toss with pasta in any recipe that calls for pesto. Makes a little under 2 cups.

Garlic mustard stalks In the spring, the second year growth of the garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) really takes off. First a few clusters of basal rosettes appear, meaning a bunch of leaves growing on stems from the ground. Then very soon afterwards, a flower stalk will shoot up. It is topped by a cluster of unopened flowers that look like a small broccoli flowerette, and there are a few triangular leaves growing on the stalk. Before the stalk gets too tall, about 5-8 inches high, we…