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Epazote
May 25, 2015 13:54:36 GMT -5
Post by ecsoehng on May 25, 2015 13:54:36 GMT -5
If you grow it once you have it forever! It is good in bean dishes but I wouldn't eat it straight. I has it's own flavor. It is quite pricey to buy dried, which makes me laugh since it is such a weed.
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Epazote
Jun 1, 2015 21:38:58 GMT -5
Post by Latitude33 on Jun 1, 2015 21:38:58 GMT -5
Used it in cooking but have not grown it successfully. Certainly not like ecsoehng's experience. As to any magical, mystical properties...I guess that would depend on one's individual exhaust compression ratio...if you know what I mean ;)
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Post by claude on Jun 2, 2015 7:44:53 GMT -5
Ecr...lmao
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Epazote
Jun 2, 2015 10:19:37 GMT -5
Post by OregonRed on Jun 2, 2015 10:19:37 GMT -5
there goes your safety man talk again. hahahah
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Post by Latitude33 on Jun 4, 2015 0:07:41 GMT -5
Not to correct you, butt that is actually my Enviro-Man side talking...air emissions dontcha know.
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Post by OregonRed on Jun 4, 2015 8:39:27 GMT -5
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Epazote
Nov 7, 2019 12:58:25 GMT -5
Post by tom 🕊 on Nov 7, 2019 12:58:25 GMT -5
A fish stew with epazote for lunch. Two dried leaves cut up with kitchen shears for a 3-quart pot. That is about right. I just could taste the epazote.
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Epazote
Nov 7, 2019 20:48:15 GMT -5
Post by pepperhead212 on Nov 7, 2019 20:48:15 GMT -5
I just pulled the large red epazote in the front, and weedwacked all the smaller plants in my mint bed, along with the last of the mint, of course. Now, it's all in the hydroponics, until next season. It's already getting overgrown!
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Epazote
Nov 15, 2019 21:06:39 GMT -5
Post by tom 🕊 on Nov 15, 2019 21:06:39 GMT -5
I have been removing epazote herb (leaves and seed pods) from its stems. The easiest way I've found to remove the seed pods is to scrape them off with needle nose pliers held lightly on the stem. According to Green Dean, seeds are edible too: www.eattheweeds.com/epazote-smelly-food-of-the-gods/I needed to know this because at my present rate of consumption I will run out before a new crop comes in.
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Epazote
Feb 4, 2020 14:48:16 GMT -5
Post by Wheelgarden on Feb 4, 2020 14:48:16 GMT -5
Failed in the past, but I'm going to give growing epazote another ol' college try. My Mexican friends highly recommend it... individual exhaust compression ratio...if you know what I mean ...they recommend it for the flavor, as well as its, um, anti-exhaust effect.
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Epazote
Jul 13, 2020 8:47:29 GMT -5
Post by tom 🕊 on Jul 13, 2020 8:47:29 GMT -5
But many of Rick Bayless' recipes have up to 1/4 c chopped epazote, usually added at the end, Thanks. I was wondering how it was typically used. I am partial to it but am using it dried. I dried a plant last year and have been using it since then on meat, eggs, and in soups. I tried the fresh this morning on an egg and in a tossed salad. Didn't like it. I think it's better dried. When I dried it, I stripped everything off the plant, so I got seeds too, which one source claims shouldn't be used because the seeds are high in the toxic essential oil. I have found two dead ticks on me. I speculate that my over consumption of epazote is killing the ticks. One tick was attached but dead, and there was no inflammation. There is a spot of inflammation under the dead tick I removed last night, so epazote may not prevent the transmission of tick diseases. If epazote is killing ticks (a conjecture), then maybe it kills the demodex mites that are implicated in rosacea, so maybe I am free of those mites, which most adults have. Proof that I am free would require microscopic examination by a doctor, and that wouldn't be proof that epazote can kill the mites because I may not have had them to begin with.
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Post by tom 🕊 on Aug 4, 2020 14:00:10 GMT -5
On the left is a mature leaf of regular epazote. On the right is a mature leaf of an epazote innovation that nature created this year. It's better than Mystery Seeds from China. This hurricane-resistant plant is ugly -- mostly straggly stems covered with small leaves but the fragrance is outstanding. Like mint to me. Like citrus to a better nose. It goes well in tossed salads.
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Epazote
Aug 5, 2020 23:17:33 GMT -5
Post by gardendmpls on Aug 5, 2020 23:17:33 GMT -5
Maybe save seeds. Might be the beginning of a new variety.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Oct 6, 2020 13:22:55 GMT -5
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Epazote
Oct 31, 2020 12:53:52 GMT -5
Post by pepperhead212 on Oct 31, 2020 12:53:52 GMT -5
That hydro epazote is over 8" now, with another branch started at the base of every leaf. Epazote in the hydro, 10-31 by pepperhead212, on Flickr And I was amazed that the 34° night last night didn't kill it, but it still looks great! Red Epazote, after 34° night. by pepperhead212, on Flickr And here's one of my Earthboxes that sat right behind the plants in the front row, showing how they re-seed itself. Yet, I have never had the seeds last through the winter, and pop up in the spring, like the green epazote used to. I always take some cuttings from the hydro plant, come spring, though the seeds do save well, and obviously, plant well! Red Epazote, growing as weeds in the okra earthbox. by pepperhead212, on Flickr
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