Comments on: Wild & Raw Sea Beet & Sorrel Houmous http://www.eatweeds.co.uk/wild-raw-sea-beet-sorrel-houmous Wild food guide to the edible plants of Britain Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:48:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: MA Arts and the Environment – ‘do tank’ with Greg Humphries « caravanserai http://www.eatweeds.co.uk/wild-raw-sea-beet-sorrel-houmous/comment-page-1#comment-684 MA Arts and the Environment – ‘do tank’ with Greg Humphries « caravanserai Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:11:27 +0000 http://www.eatweeds.co.uk/?p=558#comment-684 [...] Pic from Robin (forager in residence 2010) - Wild & Raw Sea Beet & Sorrel Houmous [...] [...] Pic from Robin (forager in residence 2010) - Wild & Raw Sea Beet & Sorrel Houmous [...]

]]> By: Neil http://www.eatweeds.co.uk/wild-raw-sea-beet-sorrel-houmous/comment-page-1#comment-431 Neil Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:37:46 +0000 http://www.eatweeds.co.uk/?p=558#comment-431 We regularly eat Sea Beet that we grow in the garden and find it superior in flavour and texture to garden varieties of perennial beet that is for sale. Lightly steamed the leaves have a delicious melting texture to them that has been lost in Garden Beet leaves. It's a case in point that reselecting for new varieties to grow in the garden are in fact not as good as the wild plant itself. We regularly eat Sea Beet that we grow in the garden and find it superior in flavour and texture to garden varieties of perennial beet that is for sale.

Lightly steamed the leaves have a delicious melting texture to them that has been lost in Garden Beet leaves.

It’s a case in point that reselecting for new varieties to grow in the garden are in fact not as good as the wild plant itself.

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