Wild Weed Pie

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Wild Weed Pie

By Janni Kyritsis and Roberta Muir

Published 2006

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Spring. Time to go on picnics in the fields. The oregano has come into flower and it has to be picked before it goes to seed and becomes bitter. ‘Don’t pick those little pink flowers,’ Mother would say. ‘They’re wild oregano and are too strong’ (she was actually talking about thyme).

I must have been about 6 or 7 when, on one of those family picnics, Mother showed me how to pick the most tender dandelion leaves. That night, as I watched the leaves being prepared, I was so pleased to have contributed to the family dinner - Wild Weed Pie.