We have great crop of dandelions this year and I wanted to do two things with them: dandelion salve and dandelion pesto. This past week, we got the salve. Maybe pesto next week.
The interweb attributes all manner of miracles to dandelion salve; I was mostly interested in using up the various supplies Jess bought several years ago to make her own cosmetics and then lost interest in.
A quick google suggested pick a jar of blooms, air dry to reduce water content, and then soak for a week in a mix of coconut and olive oil. Then strain, heat and melt in bees wax and shea butter, and pour into tins or jars.
The recipe worked pretty much as advertised. In retrospect, a bit of scent (vanilla or some lemon essential oil) might have been a good addition. The finished product turns solid as it cools. It has done a good job of pasting the dry skin on my legs back down. So I suspect, using only $40 in supplies, we saved ourselves a good $10 at London Drugs... .
The rain has kept us inside much of the weekend. I did go out and harvest some rhubarb. I moved out red plants around the front this year so have on green rhubarb to cut from. This plants will get wiped out when the garage demo occurs.
We frozen about 8 or 10 cups for use in strawberry-rhubarb pie filling later this summer.
We also baked pies to use up some of last year's pie fillings. A mix of strawberry-rhubarb and strawberry-saskatoon.
The garden is otherwise coming along We had our first harvest of spinach this week (went into a frittata). I'm a bit worried about half of the seed potatoes did not sprout (no sign of potatoes) so I'm going to go out and dig about. If they are a bust, then we're going to replant with beans, beets, lettuce and carrots.
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