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Hops & Daylily

Hops shares a family with Cannabis, and like its sister, has separate male and female vines. Herbalists use the unfertilized female flowers, which are loaded with resin. No matter what your hops vine is though, the shoots are edible, and taste a lot like asparagus. I can usually harvest enough new shoots for a tasty treat every two weeks throughout May and June.



Here is a nice bundle of hops shoots. I have harvested them by breaking them off the stalk. Like asparagus, the tough stalk is too fibrous for my taste. I just like to eat the tender growing tip, about 3-5 inches.



Poisonous plants can grow in among the edible ones, so keep your eyes open. Here are several shoots of bind weed (wild morning glory) mixed in with the hops.  It wouldn't kill me to eat bind weed but it wouldn't be pleasant.


I saute the hops shoots in half butter and half olive oil for about ten minutes or until tender, adding a splash of tamari as I serve them.


All Daylilies are edible, but not all lilies are safe to eat. Although I use the abundant and common (throughout the northeast) orange-flowered ones in this recipe, any color day-lily will do, wild or  cultivated.


Daylilies make so much of themselves that they often crowd themselves out. Harvesting some of the stalks at the beginning of the growing season will improve the health of the plants and may increase the size of the flowers.


Here are a bunch of daylily shoots ready to prepare. They certainly look a lot like leeks, a close relation, but their taste is much sweeter and only a wee bit spicy.


Cut the daylily shoots as if they were leeks. The thin slices can be added to salads for textural crunch and sweetness, or lightly sautéed (like the cattail shoots) and served as a side dish.


Many recipes call for using the daylily roots rather than the shoots. While they do taste good, I rarely eat the roots. They are hard to dig up; while it is simplicity itself to break off shoots.  And, I find the roots far too laxative for my system. Sensitive folks may even feel some loosening in their stool from eating the shoots.




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