Buckboard bacon

[Blacktail135]

 Buckboard bacon is on the smoker this evening! Eggs Florentine in the morning with fresh picked (and boiled) stinging nettles instead of spinach. Exactly a year ago I had the same breakfast.

[DeerThug]

Ok so I have gotten interested more and more in foraging.  Tell more about stinging nettles.  Harvest, handling cooking, recipes. The how to...

[Blacktail135]

 Just a once a year thing for me. An eggs Florentine meal for breakfast and a side of nettle greens at dinner (usually with a ribeye steak). For the breakfast meal I’ll pick a bunch, boil and drain, sauté in butter then stack onto the muffin. For the dinner, pick a bunch, sauté in butter, then serve on the side with slivered sweet onion and diced buckboard bacon. Salt and pepper. Here’s a pic of last years breakfast and dinner.

[Blacklab]

🤑🤑🤑😉🥃🇺🇸

[Blacktail135]

 No eggs Florentine this morning. Too much buckboard bacon too late at night last night. Plus I had 2 hot mama sausages that I sliced and frien in bear lard.......at 11pm!! ☠️

[Blacktail135]

 I did have some bacon diced and fried in bear lard with nettle greens tonight. Big meal....too big! Early to bed tonight!

[Blacktail135]

 Well krap....happened again (sideways/upside down pics). Tried to preview beforehand. Didn’t workout. Gotta figure this photo posting out as I’m about tired of upside down and sideways pics!! Anyway, grub was good.

[Blacklab]

That looks great😉🥃🇺🇸

[Blacktail135]

 Thank you! Early to bed tonight!

[jackelope]

We do the nettles every spring too. Nettle tea and nettle pesto are big hits here.

[Angry Perch]

So how long do the nettles need to cook/ blanch before they are dis-armed?

[jackelope]

So how long do the nettles need to cook/ blanch before they are dis-armed?

Not very long at all. Pretty much a blanching. 30 seconds.