After seeing my recent video on foraging for smilax and making an omelet, reader Damian and his wife decided to start making their own smilax omelets… or, as he prefers to call them, “greenbriar omelets” since, as he writes, “I can’t call it smilax, sounds too close to an OTC laxative to encourage people to forage on it!”
Damian recently sent me some pictures – looks delicious:
Smilax is one of my favorite wild edibles. Great flavor, easy to harvest and abundant.
Here’s my original video on making smilax – ahem, “greenbriar” – omelets:
4 responses to “Greenbriar Omelet!”
Can’t speak to the similax. But I put up some pickled jalapeno slices last fall, using your recipe. I forgot about them until this week. I opened a jar and tasted one slice. Holy crap those things are hot, hot!
Four slices, diced fine and stirred into a pint of salsa, raises that salsa one level of hotness, say from mild to medium. Two slices minced into hash for two adds a special flavor. Now I have to figure out what to do with the brine….
Funny! We were out at the property the day you posted your video and I took Kim out and showed her the new sprigs coming up. We picked a batch and made up omelets as well :)
I think this might be a new staple item. Cooked up it tastes great! Also, eating them when young would save me from getting hung up in them this fall…
I like greenbriar and nasturtium omelet, add little zing in the morning.
I tried it too but the family wasn’t in a hurry to ask for more!:)
But the 3 & 4 yer old have no problem eating them in the field just like that.