Snippet

[wayfaringwordhack]

I wanted to post a snippet last night, but we had an electrical storm, which kept me offline.

I was going to post earlier today and then learned about our car being stolen. That kind of knocked the wind out of my posting sails.

I'm going to do it now, though, late though it may be, because I want to look at something pretty before I go to bed.

I haven't taken many pictures in Egypt, but being back in France makes me want to capture all the nature I can, a digital hoard to take back with me to the desert.  So this week, I took some whimsical photos of flora:

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[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

LOL

It's a member of the rumex family, either dock or sorrel, and is edible, I believe.

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Yup, just looked up the English name of the ones I have here, and it's broad leaved dock. According to my Danish plant site, it's "barely edible" and most certainly a pain in the butt. :p

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

*nods* What we consider edible--or rather, "worth eating"--is not always on par with other people's thoughts. Not talking about your dock but about wild sorrel that I gather in my MIL's pasture. It is amazingly sharp and lemony. I appreciate it muchly, the MIL not so much. :D

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Yeah...it's all a matter of taste. I've eaten dandelions leaves and made dandelion "coffee" and "ice tea", but it turned out I liked the idea better than the taste, and you know how I feel about the mint. :p

The problem with the dock is apparently that it's only edible right after it sprouts and at that point easy to confuse with non-edible plants. Basically they were saying "not tasty enough to be worth the effort and risk".