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Potato & Wild Herb Salad

This is really delicious. Feel free to try whatever herbs you find or like in this salad or to add or subtract ingredients as you see fit. Video Demo.

serves 4

  • 1 large onion
  • 1 inch dried sausage, diced small
  • 1 inch ginger, grated
  • 2-3 toes garlic, minced or pounded
  • 1/2 – 3/4 c extra virgin olive oil
  • 3 medium potatoes, diced
  • 1/2 t turmeric
  • 1/2 t chili powder
  • 1 t cumin, ground
  • 1 t coriander, ground
  • salt and pepper
  • honey vinegar
  • 2 medium tomatoes, diced
  • 2-3 hard boiled eggs

Suggested Assortment of Wild and Cultivated Greens and Flowers:

  • handful violet leaves
  • handful sorrel leaves
  • handful mint leaves
  • handful basil leaves
  • handful plantain leaves
  • handful purslane
  • marigold petals
  • St. John’s Wort flowers
Sesame — Seed of Immortality

Sesame — Seed of Immortality

Originally published in Healthy Options, July 2004, New Zealand Perhaps the oldest seed utilized by man, sesame has been used for thousands of years as medicine, food and to light lamps. Although the first written record of sesame is 3,000 BC, Assyrian mythology gives sesame a role in the or ...