The Ultimate Dandelion Cookbook: 148 recipes for dandelion leaves, flowers, buds, stems, & roots

This book was an eye-opener for a new forager at how many things you can do with dandelions. Like wow! I am so happy I bought myself this book. I plan on making many things from this book.

I loved this book!I finally had my first taste of dandelion salad a few years back when I went for my visit to my sister's family in Switzerland. We had decided to go and visit a salt mine and ate at a locally renowned bistro.It was fantastic!I could not believe what I had been missing all those years and ate it throughout my regular stay there. So when I came back, I started looking for dandelion greens...which is not that easy as it is not a regular item in stores. Neither is it easy to get in the 'wild' either as you have to make sure that the plants growing in the garden or lawns have not been sprayed with pesticides. But once you get a regular supplier, it is great.This book now expands on my love for eating dandelions and a more comprehensive knowledge of the whole plant beyond the greens I crave.Not only does it tell you how and when to pick them, it gives you a part by part breakdown of how to use it, i.e., the flower (buds and petals), the leaves, and the roots. It goes way beyond salads to quiches, stews, soups, pizzas, breads, pickles, root beer, wine and sweets. The range of stuff you can make with this is awesome. I am even now considering the possibility of prepping a garden patch for next year exclusively for a crop of dandelions. I want to try making dandelion wine and have even bought the wine yeast to do it with. I also want to experiment with pickling the roots and buds. So I want a guaranteed source of flowers to use that I can be sure are untainted by pesticides.If I get culinarily ambitious because of reading a book, I consider that book a very, very good buy and investment.

What a fantastic and original BOOK. Most kindle cookbooks are about 30-40 pages. This is a legitimate cookbook.Not only that it gives recipes for every part of the plant, the stem, flowers and roots. A vitamin goldmine and all free.This book is a keeper in my opinion. It also has mostly original recipes. Who ever heard of dandelion pancakes ordandelion pancake syrup? Now it also has pics which is a huge rant for me. Most Kindle cookbooks are dashedoff with little or no editing and no pics. Now it has a lot of pics but only about 1 for every ten recipes so not enoughto make me completely happy. It also has some nutritional info which I think in today's market should be a partof any cookbook.Now for my beefs with the book. They are basically technical. There are links that are not click-able and sinceAmazon has a no copy software in its Kindle books (yea for the writers) you can't copy and paste the links. Otherthan that, I strongly recommend this book. It is also a great primer for your kids and can introduce them to cookingand harvesting their own supper.The reviewer is the author the new Kindle book entitled: Sex Education for Adults Secrets To Amazing Sexand Happily Ever After Too

I am still looking over this book but so far I'm loving it. I bought it because I figured I could swap out pretty much any edible green, buds and flowers for the dandelions so it wasn't just useful for dandelions. I haven't tried the recipes yet as it is winter here now and there aren't dandelions to harvest. I probably won't have that problem next winter, though, because she tells you about freezing, canning, and dehydrating them. I know that people used dandelion greens pretty heavily during the Depression and appreciated that she included information on the nutritional aspects of dandelions, as well as of spinach, kale, and collards. There are so many recipes to try and I can hardly wait. I can tell that the majority of them will be awesome, and there are plenty of others that are flat-out intriguing like Chipotle Dandelion Soup, Dandelion Bread Pudding, Dandelion Smoothies, jellies, teas, pickled buds, fritters, sorbet and even ice cream! She also has a recipe for using dandelion leaves in homemade noodles and, even more intriguing, she has two recipes for using dandelion stems as noodles--even instead of spaghetti. Count me in! I'm excited to try these things. A free source of food is great and at that price you can definitely afford to experiment!

Wish I had this book 40 years ago.

I have only ready the first 20 pages, but I am so excited about this book. Tonight I made the Dandelion Pasta from the greens. It was really so good. I pulled the greens right from the front yard. This was my first homemade pasta, and I just fell in love with it. The book is fast and easy. There are some directions that are not perfectly clean unless you have say made pasta before, but I got through it. I got the book for free, but I would gladly pay up to about $10 for it. I am really excited to add Dandelions to my life. If you are not into green cooking, this book is not for you. Also, a lot of the recipes cook the greens, so if you are only RAW, so sorry.

Unfortunately I do not have a lawn to pick dandelions. But as a young child I lived where there were large lawns and many ethnic groups living in that area. I fondly remember picking brown grocery bags full of dandelion heads and being paid pennies for them by an Italian Grandmother who made her own wine. Of course, I never got to taste it. But as an adult I took an herb class and the teacher served a different herb tea at our meetings. One was made with roasted dandelion roots. She told us it was coffee. Since I don't drink coffee I didn't try it. The others in the class taught it was a bitter coffee. We did learn that there is a long history of using it for coffee and many other things. To us it was a weed and my Mom was always having me sitting in the lawn for what seemed like hours digging them out. She didn't think they were pretty even though I remember picking her many a bouquet of them.

So this is a cookbook about dandelions? Well yes, I suppose it is and yes, there are 148 ways to cook with them but seriously….!I was expecting something different than every other mainstream cookbook and not just the word ‘dandelion’ added to the recipe.Firstly, there’s some basic history on the dandelion and some nutritional information so not much difference than other books but, I can live with this; however, it’s the recipes that got me.Here’s an example. Dandelion Egg Salad. Really!!! An egg salad but made into a different dish by adding dandelions! Um…okay!Dandelion-Horseradish Egg Salad! Oh right; that’s original.Dandy Omelet! Dandelion Potato Hash! Dandelion and Minestrone Soup! Dandelion Mashed Potato Casserole! Dandelion and Sausage Risotto! Pasta with Tomatoes and yes you guessed it; Dandelion!Come on!!Dandelion and Chicken Casserole! Dandelion and Vegetable Lasagna and it goes on and on and on!Oh; let’s not forget Dandelion Bud Omelet or Dandelion Bud and Chicken Stir Fry!The cover offers so much but the contents deliver very little in the way of originality.Yes there are some nice touches to the book with a few recipes I probably wouldn’t have thought of. Even a meat rub but again, the only difference is by adding dehydrated dandelions.If this book was sent to a mainstream publisher I doubt very much it would have been given the time of day and this is the very reason people self publish, I assume this is.The quality of the cover is nice and the pages are of a decent quality and that’s where it ends.Second-rate recipes with a few black and white pictures and I can’t say much more than this.I don’t like giving bad reviews but, people spend their hard-earned money on books like this expecting something different and sadly, they get very little in the way of quality information and, absolutely nothing you couldn’t find for free on the internet.

Good value

A Christmas present well received

I'm going out this weekend to pick some flowers that infest my neighbours allotment. Sh won't mind I'm sure. Then I'm going to try getting some greens, and then lastly harvest some roots! Plans made :-)

This book is very informative and if you're into natural remedies, this is for you. I would definitely recommend it.