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Cook It:Dandelion Salad
If you can't beat them, eat them
Instead of killing dandelions with toxic herbicides, fight back by eating these pesky weeds. Why, you may ask, should you use dandelion leaves in salads? They're free, they're everywhere, and even the worst gardener can keep them alive.
The much-maligned dandelion is actually one of the most nutrient-rich herbs. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, dandelion leaves are higher in beta-carotene than carrots, and higher in iron and calcium than spinach.
There are many different ways you can
Dressing
$ \frac{1}{4} $ cup olive or walnut oil
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
2 teaspoons maple syrup
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
$ \frac{1}{4} $ teaspoon dry mustard
A pinch of sea salt
Josh Patterson
Note: If you're going to collect dandelions for a salad, make sure you know the area that you are harvesting from. Make sure it hasn't been sprayed with pesticides or fertilizers.
keep yourself fed while ridding your lawn of dandelions. The whole plant is edible: The flowers can be used as a garnish or fermented to make wine, the leaves can be boiled like spinach or added to salads, and the roots can even be used as substitute to coffee.
Combine the ingredients in a bowl and stir.
Dandelion salad
3 cups spring greens
1 cup young dandelion leaves (Tip: Use only light colored leaves. As they grow and darken, they become bitter.)
$ \frac{1}{2} $ cup grated carrots
2 tablespoons toasted sunflower seeds
Dandelion petals, as a garnish
Toss the spring greens and, with the dandelion leaves in a bowl, add the grated carrots and drizzle on dressing. Toss the salad and sprinkle with dandelion petals.
The crew is dropped off in the camera-rigged jungle, and they mistake the drugrunning inhabitants with real machine guns for paid actors. The blood, guts, and laughs continue as the actors slowly start to realize the danger they've found themselves in.
At the suggestion of a crazy military advisor—played with maniacal enthusiasm by Nick Nolte—the shoot moves into the Vietnamese jungle.
MOVIE: Tropic Thunder
Ben Stiller, who also directed the movie, plays down-and-out action star Tug Speedman, who is trying to revive his career. Jack Black, comedian Jeff Portnoy, and newcomer Brandon T. Jackson round out the cast.
The opening scene rolls into a movie shoot full of missed explosions and actors butting heads. Sharing the title of Tropic Thunder, the Vietnam-era movie within the movie is in the hands of rookie director Damien Cockburn, played with prima donna angst by Steve Coogan.
The gem of the movie is Robert Downey Jr. and his character Kirk Lazarus, a white Australian Oscar-winner who plays a black soldier. His performances as both Kirk and
With looks like Platoon, laughs like Anchorman, and a strong cast led by Robert Downey Jr. Tropic Thunder delivers like no other comedy out this year.
Kirk playing the black character Link produce one of the funniest characters in recent movie history.
Tropic Thunder is not nice or in any way appropriate. It is a bloody comedy that will surprise you every step of the way. Make sure and get there for the opening "previews," and to keep an open mind throughout this movie that loves making fun of itself.
Mark Arehart
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