Just A Reminder: You Can Eat Your Christmas Tree (Wait, What?)
A while back there was a book about how you can eat your Christmas tree. Supposedly, the idea is picking up steam?
This is one of those No Sweat News Stories that I always look at sideways; like someone’s publicist has earned their keep by getting something into a cycle…
But, apparently (for real), instead of just taking the decorations off your Christmas tree and dumping your tree somewhere like the beach (for beach dune maintenance) or a place in a forest (to create some kind of habitat for the little animals)… go ahead and eat it.
We all pointed and laughed when a book came out a few years ago called, “How To Eat Your Christmas Tree”, because, well, it’s a pretty weird idea, but these days people are actually taking it heart, or rather to the kitchen.
The needles on your Christmas tree can be used like the spice rosemary (actually, come to think of it, they have similar scent profiles). And on a side note, on a trip to the Pacific Northwest of Canada, I personally went to a few bars that claimed to use local pine needles to flavor their gin and it tasted pretty awesome.
Supposedly there’s a few good recipes that use the needles to flavor salmon. Here’s another idea that sounds like it might be ok: Pine Needles Infused Pickles.
Then again this could all be a bunch of nonsense brought on by hard economic times and the fact that food is so expensive. “Times are so tough that people are willing to eat their houseplants and Christmas trees.”
Hmmm…
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