Hosta for Dinner
If slugs are eating your hosta, why not try beating them to it?
I recently spoke at the Taylor Conservatory’s Growing Great Gardens and was fortunate to hear fellow speaker Ellen Zachos, the Backyard Forager.
She revealed all kinds of wonderful forage from the garden, including hosta. Hosta leaves are edible and, according to Ellen, taste somewhere between lettuce and young spinach.
The best time to pick them is when they are barely unfurling; in my garden that is often mid-late April. Harvest leaves from the outside of the clump so that inside leaves will hide cuts as they unfurl.
Zachos likes to roast her leaves in a 450 degree oven for about ten minutes; she then wraps the leaves in prosciutto.
The dish is made even better by serving it on a bed of garlic mustard pesto. Finally something to do with that weed!
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