Apr 15 2009
Pick Your Own
It’s amazing how many more people I see out in the countryside picking setas - wild mushrooms, asparagus and the other local delicacies like cojellas, caldo and alcelga the spinach beet equivalent.
And after the downpour of today there’ll be carrier bags full of writhing snails being collected too!
I don’t mind the greens but draw the line at picking my own and cooking my own snails.
Ugh! A neighbour of mine once invited me in to witness the live snails being cooked then offered me some on a plate straight from the foaming frothy pan.
I declined - none to politely while my stomach was doing unmentionable revolutions.
So pick your own fresh greens - me I eat the asparagus from my garden raw, it’s crunchy and delicious like freshly picked peas. And they’re free.
Call me weird - my hubby does.
Check back later and I’ll post some photo’s of the wild plants that you can pick and eat.
