FeralKevin Presents: Urban Foraging with Camellia japonica and Prunus laurocerasus

[ChristinaWolfle]

I thought Camelia's were a flower in Japan.. didnt know they grew in california.. I also didnt know they're edible

[blackmagicmarkr]

Whats with you Californians eating shit you find outside? Is the economy really that bad out there?

[BayviewFinch]

@blackmagicmarkr - I'm not from California. I've had some delicious tea from various plants that grow naturally outside. It's cool. And you're not limited by what the grocery store has.

[yirmyahfox]

wow this is just like the vids from north korea



[PresidentZod]

@yirmyahfox "wow this is just like the vids from north korea"

Not quite. They haven't opened their mail-bag for a recipe-of-the-month for a spontaneously self-aborted foetus.

Apparently, the goal is to NOT have them taste like chicken.

[Coolie38]

I like the weeds with pointy shredded edges. They are great in brownies!!!!

[gerfall]

I'd rather go buy some spinach at the grocery store and have a fresh salad...

[leaf431]

I only clicked it because it said Urban foraging with Camel

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[Lenilya]

Clean your stove.

[feralkevin]

@Lenilya Oh, I'll have my maid right on it!

[Ulfification]

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[Gregd8888]

who the hell does this shit? If I saw a non-homeless person doing this, I would make fun of them.

[superbong69]

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[LyleVertigo]

I was hoping to see him pick stuff off the ground and eat it :/

[feralkevin]

I've eaten both ways you describe, with little difference. Cooking them usually makes the color turn brown anyway. Although I do not recommend eating them before the flowers are "loose" on the plant.

[firepouya]

Do they have to be brown or can they be fresh off the tree and fried??

[firepouya]

Do they have to be brown or can they be fresh off the tree while they are loose??

[Tossdart]

Butter ahemmmm! Not so very Feral, milk animal required. A rare commodity unless touring Mongolia, shopping walimart so forth. Kevin you must get more Feral you are getting to sissyish frying pan , electric stove. Yanking your chain of course ;) :)

[feralkevin]

I should also add that I've never eaten the camellia flowers in quantity.

[EatTheWeeds]

How did you discover them? (And judging by your comments a book you should read is Good Calorie Bad Calorie by Gary Taubs. )

[EatTheWeeds]

Hmmmm... makes me wonder if my local camelias are edible...about the prunus seeds with cyanide and glucose. In other species native people have crushed the entire fruit -- seed and all-- made into cakes and let set for two or three days then baked. The enzyme action by setting and the baking apparently droves of the cyanide making them edible. This was a common practice with the chickasaw plum.

[feralkevin]

Thanks, Deane. I'd like to know more. I'd like to know all I can about removing the toxins from the nuts of all Prunus. Another one we have here is Prunus illicifolia, or Islay (holly-leaf cherry). They are native, and amazing plants. Can grow in very dry conditions, evergreen, the fruit is very strongly flavored. The natives here used to eat the nuts, sometimes because they "cultivated" varieties with little poison, and in other places they leached them.

I know of now current info.

[feralkevin]

Have you done this yourself with the chickasaw plum?

[EatTheWeeds]

Yes and no. Hillman and Mears do it on their series and it is in literature on the American Indians. I do what my grandmother did, and that is I shell and dry all the prunus seeds... let them set for a coupe of weeks, then eat them, sparingly.

[theproducegarden]

great entrance!