Nutrition Data

Check out this website: http://www.nutritiondata.com. You can enter a food and see how good it is for you! Try dandelion greens, for instance.

Dandelion Greens

Yup. After taking the dandelion greens and letting them rot in my fridge the first week, and after putting them in the trade box the next week (while a fellow CSA member shook her head and said, "But they are so nutritious..."), I decided to try to cook them this time. Please note that Jon picked up the vegetables and did not know that we could dump them in the trade box. Of course, the only thing to trade them for would be other dandelion greens because everything else in the farm box this time of year is both recognizable and tasty.

I found this recipe and all 4 reviewers loved it. That's right there are 4 other people out there who have cooked dandelion greens.

Truth be told they sat in my fridge again for a week before I decided to cook them. And they looked exactly the same as a week ago. After 5 minutes in boiling water, they still were looking the same (and appeared to be hydrophobic).

In the end, they were fine, but quite bitter. I probably would have liked the recipe better with any other green. However, that is clearly not the point.

Perhaps I should mention that Jon said we should quit the CSA over this (the delivery of dandelion greens). He could not believe that they would pull their weeds and sell them to us as organic vegetables. I asked if he would feel better if we went to the farm and saw that they were planted in a nice row. Yes, slightly, he said. But now that I think about it, what are the chances that they actually have a row of them? I mean, they look exactly like the ones that grow in our yard.