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We have lots of death camas on our place Not the stuff you want to eat!
2 are commonly mashed into a paste or dried and eaten whole(my favorite). 1 is about the size of a nickel to a qauarter if it's a good winter and the other about a golf ball. the 3rd resembles spaghetti but shorter, about 3 to 6 inches and it can be dried and served or mixed with salmon in a soup these show up low and then follow the melting of the snow up till end of may. then another root isn't ready til end of summer and its similar to a carrot. then theres wild onions and wild potatoes.
Quote from: PlateauNDN on April 20, 2012, 02:15:43 PM2 are commonly mashed into a paste or dried and eaten whole(my favorite). 1 is about the size of a nickel to a qauarter if it's a good winter and the other about a golf ball. the 3rd resembles spaghetti but shorter, about 3 to 6 inches and it can be dried and served or mixed with salmon in a soup these show up low and then follow the melting of the snow up till end of may. then another root isn't ready til end of summer and its similar to a carrot. then theres wild onions and wild potatoes. Is there a market for these different edible roots, be neat to try something different I've never had. Also to the OP, good topic of interest.
@ pleateaundn and@yak-ndnhow come you dont share about the one that works better then the lil blue pill?
Quote from: Arteman on April 22, 2012, 11:48:22 PMQuote from: PlateauNDN on April 20, 2012, 02:15:43 PM2 are commonly mashed into a paste or dried and eaten whole(my favorite). 1 is about the size of a nickel to a qauarter if it's a good winter and the other about a golf ball. the 3rd resembles spaghetti but shorter, about 3 to 6 inches and it can be dried and served or mixed with salmon in a soup these show up low and then follow the melting of the snow up till end of may. then another root isn't ready til end of summer and its similar to a carrot. then theres wild onions and wild potatoes. Is there a market for these different edible roots, be neat to try something different I've never had. Also to the OP, good topic of interest.You might be able to find a market for the camas roots, they taste a little like a very strong turnip and add a nice flavor to stews. I don't think you would find much of a market for Bitterroots. They are aptly named. Cool pics Plat. If you tried some of my grandmothers methods of preparing them you'd think twice about which one was marketable. I can't tell you how many non-tribal members have been hooked once they've tried the more popular way of preparing the bitterroot or in our language pyaxi (p-yuck-ee) it doesn't sound like "yuck" but relatively close.Roosies are native BTW. Read Lewis and Clark's journals. That's all they ate the winter they lived at Fort Clatsop. They ate so much elk they actually got sick of it and began to go to lengths to find other foods...
Quote from: Pathfinder101 on April 25, 2012, 09:10:30 AMQuote from: Arteman on April 22, 2012, 11:48:22 PMQuote from: PlateauNDN on April 20, 2012, 02:15:43 PM2 are commonly mashed into a paste or dried and eaten whole(my favorite). 1 is about the size of a nickel to a qauarter if it's a good winter and the other about a golf ball. the 3rd resembles spaghetti but shorter, about 3 to 6 inches and it can be dried and served or mixed with salmon in a soup these show up low and then follow the melting of the snow up till end of may. then another root isn't ready til end of summer and its similar to a carrot. then theres wild onions and wild potatoes. Is there a market for these different edible roots, be neat to try something different I've never had. Also to the OP, good topic of interest.You might be able to find a market for the camas roots, they taste a little like a very strong turnip and add a nice flavor to stews. I don't think you would find much of a market for Bitterroots. They are aptly named. Cool pics Plat. If you tried some of my grandmothers methods of preparing them you'd think twice about which one was marketable. I can't tell you how many non-tribal members have been hooked once they've tried the more popular way of preparing the bitterroot or in our language pyaxi (p-yuck-ee) it doesn't sound like "yuck" but relatively close.Roosies are native BTW. Read Lewis and Clark's journals. That's all they ate the winter they lived at Fort Clatsop. They ate so much elk they actually got sick of it and began to go to lengths to find other foods...