RE: Forager’s Hike: Walking Through Bay Laurel and Miner’s Lettuce
You can use a smaller quantity of California bay leaves to similar effect, though it has a much sharper taste and using too much will overpower your food. The nuts are edible also and can be roasted for a beverage like coffee.
Damn! So this is what bay leaf looks when it's fresh. We often see the dry ones here in Nigeria and now I think I know why . That's coz it doesn't grow here in Nigerian but in California and then imported here as dry leaves.
I so much love the taste in jollof rice and it gives it this unique taste we always get from rice cooked in parties which we call "Nigerian Party Jollof" ....I would really love to know what else bay leaves can be used to cook and will it have the same tastebwhen it is fresh and when it is dried?
Talking about the nuts. Never seen one before and how does that taste too after being roasted?
The best kind for cooking is the Mediterranean bay leaf (also known as culinary bay), so that's probably what you are getting there. The California one is more intensely flavored and more difficult to use in cooking.
Lettuce is common in the place where I live. It's very tasty mostly in winter and it has great health benefits.We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.
yeah I was shocked have actually never seen bay leaves so fresh I get to see only the dried ones in our awesome Nigerian jollof @donkeypong needs to taste it don't you think?