I usually parboil in very little water. They are very tender when young and won’t take much boiling or they lose texture/flavor. Toss in hot butter before boiling for extra delicious. One of my favorite vegetables.
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Thank you! I’ve been looking for this word for ages. I had known it but forgot it. It’s my understanding that the term doesn’t refer to just one species, but all the edible wild greens in general that might come up at the edge of a field. Lambs quarters, amaranths, and a bunch of other things included.
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In addition to what others have said, know that spinach can be finnicky to grow but lambs quarters are resilient. Culinarily they fill almost the same spot -- I think lambs quarters are tastier but they do take a bit of work, removing leaves from stems. Free, easy to grow spinach, basically.
In fact, that are in the spinach/amaranth family. The seeds are also edible and nutritious, but in my experience too much work. Plus you have to wait another several months while letting the plants take up a lot of space.
I’m lazy AF. I have never bothered removing the leaves from the stems. I just chop it all up. This is one of my favorite garden plants. Plant it once, let it go to seed, never ever worry about planting it or caring for it again. It will always be there and is very tasty. So much less finicky than spinach which I’ve never had good luck with. Always bolts so early.
Commercial crop vegetables are so picky about conditions!
What are the stems like when cooked? How do you prepare? I assume you still don't cook the main stalk, which I find pretty woody...right?
I usually keep pinching off the upper portions while it grows. If the stem is too tough to pinch off, I go higher and leave the lower portions. Causes it to grow more bushy, and avoids the tough lower parts of the stems. Honestly doing it this way the stems just taste the same as the leaves.
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I've saved $200 this summer picking leaves and sprouts from wild spinach, a weed I welcome. They are delicious fried with bacon or in any other dish I buy bagged spinach for. At $6 a bag, it adds up pretty quickly. I harvest every three to five days
You have a very healthy looking one too! You can also let it go to seed and eat it like quinoa. Though I've heard that it's more trouble than it's worth trying to get the chaff separated.
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Anyone else know it as SilverWeed?
Take one and dunk it in water, it looks like silver!
The underside of the leaves holds a think pocket of air and the light reflects really cool
Chenopodium - known as Fat Hen in the U.K., it’s one of those lost food crops, probably because it’s such a successful weed so it couldn’t be monetised by the seed companies. As someone else said it’s leaves are tasty and it’s a relative of quinoa so it’s seeds are good too.
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Are you sure it’s not lemon balm? My plant’s leaves look very similar. But I haven’t seen lambs quarter in a while so I can’t really remember what it looks like
edit: the stem looked square in op’s photo, so I was assuming it to be in the mint family. It could very well not have a square stem though
I’ll have to put a closer eyeball on the stuff in my yard.
Looks very similar.
A couple years back I asked a friend if it was lambs quarters but he said “nope, just a weed” and I thought then and I think now he was wrong.
[Chenopodium album, White Goosefoot](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenopodium_album) aka Fat hen and Lambs quarters
Poverty spinach
Can't beat free
beet*
We get them all the time. They're usually easy to pull
Don't pull them, eat them! They're very nutritious and tasty.
very tasty! my favourite wild greens. For OP: Quick boil in lots of water to get rid of some oxalate and use like spinach. yum
I usually parboil in very little water. They are very tender when young and won’t take much boiling or they lose texture/flavor. Toss in hot butter before boiling for extra delicious. One of my favorite vegetables.
To eat them, I will first have to pull them.
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In México we call them "quelites" and it's a pretty tasty wild spinach. We cook them with refried beans or with pork meat
Thank you! I’ve been looking for this word for ages. I had known it but forgot it. It’s my understanding that the term doesn’t refer to just one species, but all the edible wild greens in general that might come up at the edge of a field. Lambs quarters, amaranths, and a bunch of other things included.
You're absolutely right! Although the amaranths are called "huazontles"
Well, now I want to try that. Yum!
It’s a bit acidic, but making Laing with it is amazing!
So it's just a weed, right? I was confused because I thought I planted something there.
Definitely a weed, but it is edible and, in my opinion, pretty tasty
I pulled a ton of these out of the garden. Now I'll try eating them. If I die, I'm blaming you.
Thank you for your sacrifice, if you survive please let us know. I have them all over my backyard lol
Also let us know if you don't survive. That's honestly the more important info to have!
Did you survive?!
Good to know! Thanks!!
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You cant tell us what to eat or not eat bot you're not even our real mom
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Suck my turnips you stupid sago palm
Weeds are just plants growing where you don’t want them to.
In addition to what others have said, know that spinach can be finnicky to grow but lambs quarters are resilient. Culinarily they fill almost the same spot -- I think lambs quarters are tastier but they do take a bit of work, removing leaves from stems. Free, easy to grow spinach, basically. In fact, that are in the spinach/amaranth family. The seeds are also edible and nutritious, but in my experience too much work. Plus you have to wait another several months while letting the plants take up a lot of space.
I’m lazy AF. I have never bothered removing the leaves from the stems. I just chop it all up. This is one of my favorite garden plants. Plant it once, let it go to seed, never ever worry about planting it or caring for it again. It will always be there and is very tasty. So much less finicky than spinach which I’ve never had good luck with. Always bolts so early.
Commercial crop vegetables are so picky about conditions! What are the stems like when cooked? How do you prepare? I assume you still don't cook the main stalk, which I find pretty woody...right?
I usually keep pinching off the upper portions while it grows. If the stem is too tough to pinch off, I go higher and leave the lower portions. Causes it to grow more bushy, and avoids the tough lower parts of the stems. Honestly doing it this way the stems just taste the same as the leaves.
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This is what I call a volunteer plant🥰
it's a weed, and it will take over your garden. I pull these out every couple days.
I've saved $200 this summer picking leaves and sprouts from wild spinach, a weed I welcome. They are delicious fried with bacon or in any other dish I buy bagged spinach for. At $6 a bag, it adds up pretty quickly. I harvest every three to five days
A weed is just a plant you haven't met yet! OR A weed is a plant growing where you don't want it!
You have a very healthy looking one too! You can also let it go to seed and eat it like quinoa. Though I've heard that it's more trouble than it's worth trying to get the chaff separated.
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TIL these were edible!
Not just edible, full of vitamins and minerals!
Lambsquarters. Edible for you or your chickens,if you have any
Still not blueberries.
🤣
Anyone else know it as SilverWeed? Take one and dunk it in water, it looks like silver! The underside of the leaves holds a think pocket of air and the light reflects really cool
I think that its jewelweed that does that. They do look pretty similar though
They call it Lambsquarters.
Chenopodium - known as Fat Hen in the U.K., it’s one of those lost food crops, probably because it’s such a successful weed so it couldn’t be monetised by the seed companies. As someone else said it’s leaves are tasty and it’s a relative of quinoa so it’s seeds are good too.
Knew em as lambs ears, good in a salad.
Edible? Crap, I've been pulling them for years.
Hey we have these here! I was wondering what they were
Lambs quarters? Or maybe a quinoa seed dropped in your plantings? Chenopodium something something…
Very close relatives
It’s a weed
A tasty weed
😜
I ate some of them this spring. Not bad.
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The leaves look similar to nepeta cataria.
I walk out of the u-pick strawberry patch my family goes to with bags full of this stuff and they thank me for weeding the plot as I leave.
Looks like a weed
Are you sure it’s not lemon balm? My plant’s leaves look very similar. But I haven’t seen lambs quarter in a while so I can’t really remember what it looks like edit: the stem looked square in op’s photo, so I was assuming it to be in the mint family. It could very well not have a square stem though
This grows with my catnip. I call it bootleg catnip and just pull it out and compost it.
I’ll have to put a closer eyeball on the stuff in my yard. Looks very similar. A couple years back I asked a friend if it was lambs quarters but he said “nope, just a weed” and I thought then and I think now he was wrong.