EATING Pond Plants!

[Julles]

While researching water hawthorn, I came upon this:

The Art of Aquatic Cooking . . .



Water Hawthorn Stew
Contributed by Jacques Gerber, Pretoria, South Africa


The following is a recipe for cooking Apongeton distachys, known here in South Africa as waterblommetjies (little water flowers). You'll probably know it as Water Hawthorn. Recipe calls for a can of waterblommetjies, but you can use fresh easily, if you can find them. A 400g can of waterblommetjies is equivalent to about 300g of flowers. They have to be picked when at least half the inflorescence is green.

1 X 400g can waterblommetjies (drained)
500g lamb short ribs
15ml oil
1 onion, chopped
a few drops of lemon, vinegar or dry white wine
5ml brown sugar
2ml seasoning salt
salt and pepper to taste
250ml boiling water
2 potatoes, peeled and cubed

Brown meat in oil. Remove and reserve. Fry onion until transparent. Add meat, flavourings and water. Simmer gently until meat is tender. Add waterblommetjies and potatoes (you can add fresh waterblommetjies at this stage as well) and simmer until vegetables are cooked. Mash some of the potatoes to thicken the stew.

To serve: Sprinkle with lemon juice and olive oil. Serves 2.

This is a new section of the web site that we think will be a lot of fun! If you have a recipe for a dish that uses any aquatic plant, please send it to us! Write kit@victoria-adventure.org

http://www.victoria-adventure.org/aquatic_plants/recipes/water_hawthorn_stew.html




Note that last line... apparantly, a LOT of people eat water plants!

[Esther]

Hmm, well I suppose people over the years have tried to eat most anything that grows, so why not water plants? But I can't say that I have gnawed on much of anything out of my pond .

[bunny56lbc]

ewwww  , I know people who eat cattails . They say the white part (down by the root's ) taste's like carrot's , but ya get them before the plant get too big.
I wouldn't know as I've never tryed it yet .

bonnie

[Ky Kim]

Taro's are eatable.  I known this, but the other night on the show Dirties Jobs, he was over in HI, and he was in their ponds/muck and pulling them out.  They showed the eatable parts, then how to stick them right back in the ponds, after cutting the bulb (what ever you call it) off.
They made a dish called ummm, something that started with a P.


Kim

[Julles]

I think it's called - pao - or something.  ??

I think you can get it here, in specialty markets.  It's very starchy.

[Jerry]

My first thought was "No way!"  Then I realized we fertilize many crops with manure.  So what's a little fish poop?  Poi is made from Taro and of course rice too is a water plant.

I love the host of "Dirtiest Jobs"  Mike Lowe, I think.

[Philly Bill]

Check out this Australian site all about feeding yourself with a backyard fish and plant pond:

Practical Aquaponics


Philly Bill
Big Puddle Blogger

[Jerry]

hey Bill, I grew up at 52nd & Jefferson!

The site you posted won't load for me.

[barb]

Well, next time you guys have regional get-together, you'll know what to serve!

[LeeAnne151]

Mike Rowe

Poi is indeed made from Taro. Nasty stuff, tastes like wallpaper paste. It is a pretty purple color though.

[Jerry]

LeeAnne it's good with 7 treaspoons os sugar!.
Barb:  Poi or fish poop?

[PondmaninAL]

Well, if you do like I do and study the plants as you get them, you will find out that there is a lot of pond plants that are edible. Native Americans used the seed from the American lotus as food. The tuber, catkin, and male flower of cattails are edible. Water cress is a well known salad plant. The tubers of taro are used to make poi. The Japanese use the leaves of lotus in some of their dishes. I think half of my pond is edible and it was on purpose.

Happy ponding,
Scott

[Sean]

Kit Knotts makes a really rare delicacy with Victoria Waterlily seed.
She makes Victoria PopCorn. She claims it tastes really good too.

Cheers,
Sean

Photo property of Victoria Adventure.

[Ky Kim]

Bonnie I had forgotten, when I would go to a Baptist Camp (so many years a go) in my teens.  We all tried cattails, they tasted like cucumbers to us.  Geeez that brought back a memory. 
Kim

[Philly Bill]

hey Bill, I grew up at 52nd & Jefferson!

The site you posted won't load for me.

Small world!

I have fixed the link. Sorry about that!

[Julles]

A while back, here in Houston, there was a grocery store near the NASA Space Center that built a HUGE display of what they called Hydroponics, which is essentially the same thing - growing plants in water instead of soil, and using alternative fertilizer.

They had tiers of troughs full of water, stacked 2 or maybe 3 stories high, in the front of the store, inside tremendous glass rooms.  They had fruiting tomato plants and all other sorts of produce.  You could actually buy the stuff, too.  It was very impressive.

That system is no longer in place.  Not sure why they took it down, but it was quite the news story at the time, and I used to take out-of-town visitors there.  It sure got them a lot of traffic through the store!

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