Jim’s Its Dandelion Day April 5, 2021 Café

[Lara_C]

I'll just have to try it!😸

If you find a way to make it more palatable, please let me know! As it is, it tastes like fermented hay.

 

[Lane]

Good morning and thank you for opening Cafe and tagging me @extraterrestrialone . Ha, you got me excited over the dandelion flower.

There's some beautiful artwork out there and other aliens that cherish this "strange" weed. I may even paint a few one day now.

I noticed a bunch on my walk yesterday, looking cheery in people's lawns.

 

[Lane]

I want to be like a dandelion, bright and happy, resilient and useful.

 

[Lane]

Thank you for making me smile on a Monday friend @extraterrestrialone . Here's some facts about the dandelion. I can't wait to have grandkids and have them make wishes, singing mama had a baby and her had popped off and then pooping the dandy head off. 😳

 

[Lane]

 

[Lane]

I can't be the only kid who used to blow on the dandelion puff balls, right?

Hi!

 

[Lara_C]

From Wikipedia and my comments about your favorite flower:

• "Dandelion" is based on a French word "dent de lion", or "lion's tooth". Not sure why.

Just read its because the long, large, jagged -edged leaves look like "teeth". So now we know!

 

[Livelife]

you can steep another tea or two with the dandelion to create a more palatable taste and add to/maintain the healing qualities. It blends well with several other teas.....green teas, white teas, herbals.

 

[Livelife]

@Witty⭐️Sarcasm ⭐️ @Sunspots @Livelife @Road to Nowhere @Dante @LonelyHiker @A_J_R

Just a few for now, my first try at tagging. LOL

thanks for the tag @KM76710

 

[SillyOldBear]

I know I get too many of them in my yard.

 

[Inya]

Hey ET, thanks for the invite.

I eat dandelion greens salad since I know myself, that's about half of the century , and I absolutely love it.
But. When it begins to flower it gets bitter as hell so never pick those. Also if it doesn't get enough water. 'Baby' leaves are the best but of course are very time consuming to pick.

Those dandelion greens on your picture, the salad and the sautéed one seem way too big if you ask me unless it's a coffee cup plate lol.

And I never make a dandelion salad without fried bacon, cooked egg and potato, which you mix in when still hot so that it softens the leaves. Sometimes I add feta cheese, cherry tomatoes, beans...oh and never forget garlic.

I've never tried the tea, but I know people who make it from dandelion roots (picked in autumn) not leaves.

 

[DawnS]

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OK everyone brush up on your dandelion knowledge and then let me know what you know about dandelions!

I can't be the only kid who used to blow on the dandelion puff balls, right?

Nope, I still do it. Don't know how old you are, but the Rolling Stones had a song about dandelions. My late brother really liked that song.

 

[MisterBGone]

@JMG @MisterBGone @Lara_C @Dark111 @pooky @1964dodge @Autumn1973 @ClassicsFan @Innocent Forever

hoping someone handy with tagging can tag a few. my brain and fingers are not in sync today

I think this is the, "MVP~." (section `My_Self!!.. / (realize, I)* might> be = biased_. j/k!

 

[MisterBGone]

Thank ya thank ya for the tags 🤗
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Botanist, on the side. . ;D

 

[Kiwi2016]

I can't be the only kid who used to blow on the dandelion puff balls, right?

Yes much to the dismay of my mother who had a special dislike of them so would spend hours digging them up in our lawn

 

[MisterBGone]

@shania @the.end.ish @PrincessPure @pooky @SillyOldBear @Holding my breath @Sunspots @A_J_R @ItsJustLark @Gert

 

[Kiwi2016]

Thanks for opening & the tag @extraterrestrialone ...

saw this of FB awhile ago...so thought would share given the theme...



wishing all a great Monday!

 

[RCee]

Yes much to the dismay of my mother who had a special dislike of them so would spend hours digging them up in our lawn

A lot of people seem not to like them in their yards. I learned about the dandelion back as a kid when my mother said it was a weed. Wee didn’t have google lol so I did my own research which turned out. A weed is any unwanted plant or a plant out of place . Dandelion can grow almost anywhere in nutrient deficient soil, therefore people think its a weed. so if you like them they are a flower and if you don’t like them....it’s still gonna be a flower just an unwanted one!

 

[full]

Here is interesting tidy bit about dandelion. During scarcity years of wartime, where foodstuff was not readily available, we dug out dandelion roots, bake it in the oven just like coffee beans and then made delicious coffee drink out of it.

In the less successful attempts, dried dandelion leaves were not at all good substitute for tobacco

 

[JMG]

Nope, I still do it.

Thank you for saying/admitting this, I was starting to worry a bit lol. Was def. gonna say of course I did that all the time "as a kid" wasn't sure whether to add "and still do" so thank you for making it a heck of a lot easier! Lol :p

Thanks for opening & the tag @extraterrestrialone ...

saw this of FB awhile ago...so thought would share given the theme...

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wishing all a great Monday!

Lmao that is such a hilarious "dandelion snowman" ha love it, so creative! :p Hope you have a great Monday too
Tysm for the tag @extraterrestrialone and for opening the cafe today too

Looks like lots of people already posted lots of interesting factoids on dandelions so not sure what else I can add. Before I read those facts all I really knew about them was that they are either yellow or those clear white puffy things depending on their stage of life, that lots of people don't like them cos of considering them to be "weeds" and that I always felt very sad for them for that reason cos I think they are adorable lil flowers & I've always loved them a lot. Used to have a lot of fun picking them as a kid and making lil "dandelion bouquets" with them. Was easy to do since there were always so many of them around. I'm glad you love them so much cos they deserve to be loved and celebrated a lot more. ❤ ❤ ❤

I put the first of these 4 collages together of some pix I found, hope someone out there likes it but if not then sorry I tried. The other ones are some yellow flower collages I found, and the last is some cool alien stickers I like & think are cool