Here's my recipe...
- Go to a tutorial
- Drink a couple of ciders
- Decide on something, stupid?
- Put on your wife's gardening-gloves
- Garner your nettles [they grow round my house, you may need to go a distance.] by squatting in the rain
When picking the nettles, think about the size of your head, about double that will give four portions.
At this point we need to deal with the dealing with nettle-stuff. We're not in parsley [Kansas] territory anymore—no stalks are wanted here. So plunk it into a sink and prepare your scissors.
Have another couple of ciders, until the dirt sinks to its level. What's wanted now the young leaves, so snip these off into a collander, discarding the old, the blighted and the dodgy.
Drain the sink, remembering that those little bits of green that block bthe plug-hole will sting you!
Now it's time to make the soup.
As this was my first attempt at the nettle I decided to be basic. So ingredients:
- Two, small, red onions
- Two, smashed-cloves of garlic
- The bits of potatoes that were left over from a previous making of chips
- The stalks of the parsley that is trying to bolt
- Shop-bought stock
You can adjust these according to your circumstances.
Sweat stuff down, sweat the nettles, blitz, swirl in the cream, all the usual soup stuff.
Then have one bowl, do lots of carrying stuff, have more cider and worry.
stuff's good