{"id":27183,"date":"2021-01-19T13:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=27183"},"modified":"2021-01-19T13:06:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T12:06:33","slug":"dandelion-shoots-in-the-living-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=27183","title":{"rendered":"Dandelion shoots in the living room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This bucket was planted in the autumn and stored until now in the cellar. Within a few days of bringing it up into my living room there are usable shoots. Garlic bulbil shoots are seen behind.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27186 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/P2020055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/P2020055.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/P2020055-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/P2020055-768x577.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/P2020055-640x481.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>Nowadays, I LOVE the taste of dandelion although in my youth I found it so bitter that I couldn&#8217;t understand why anyone would want to eat it. I think the reason is a combination of giving up eating sugar and getting accustomed to eating bitter plants. In addition, nobody ate a dandelion salad alone. The following box from my book describes various methods og de-bitterizing dandelions if you want to benefit from one of the most nutritious and valuable plants on the planet but find the taste too bitter:<br \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27184 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Dandelion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Dandelion.jpg 315w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Dandelion-133x300.jpg 133w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This bucket was planted in the autumn and stored until now in the cellar. Within a few days of bringing it up into my living room there are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[94,4087,214,992,805,907],"class_list":["post-27183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dandelions","tag-around-the-world-in-80-plants","tag-bitterness","tag-garlic","tag-garlic-bulbils","tag-john-kallas","tag-winter-vegetables"],"views":3647,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27188,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27183\/revisions\/27188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}