Pietrusza Wola 21-22 July 2007

It was hot (35 C)...

We gathered ants using a ladle. We cooked them with some water and salt, in a South African way.

We soaked the seeds of wild vetch (Vicia cracca) over night, then boiled them twice each time for an hour, with a change of water.

Shoots (left) and roots (right) of tormentil (Potentilla erecta), Wojtek Szymański invented a drink made of the roots. How? It is our secret.

Leaf shoots of wild angelica (Angelica sylvestris), boiled with sugar as a dessert.

Leaves of goose foot (Chenopodium album), was basic famine food of Polish peasants. They taste better than spinach. They have to be scalded with boiling water first and then fried for 5 minutes.

Putting Chenopodium in the pot...

...plus eggs!

Young leaves of Cirsium rivulare were a common famine dish in the Carpathians. Here we also added some Origanum vulgare for flavour.

The soup is ready. Other ingredients we included were oil, Thymus pulegioides leaves and Allium ursinum bulbs.

Other things we ate, from left: nettles (Urtica dioica), blackberries (Rubus nessensis) and the above mentioned Cirsium rivulare.

Blackberries and American chamomile (Matricaria discoidea) gave a fantastic herbal tea together.

Oh, hot!

Nettle leaves are a tasty addition to crepes.

Before collecting cattails

Group photo... Phot. Jan Szeliga.

Chaerophyllum bulbosum in a roadside ditch.

It produces wholesome bulbs (from June to September).

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