Wild Food Challenge: Itsy and Bitsy's wonderful soup

This morning I went foraging for burdock root, but unfortunately I didn't find any. But when I was looking I found some amazing rose hips. They were really big, sweet and pretty juicy. I made them into a apple-rosehip fruit leather.

The other big food product of the day was amaranth. I harvested wild amaranth a couple of weeks ago and left it to dry. Over the weekend I threshed all the stalks to get the seeds out. I was going to blow the husks off, but then found out that the blow dryer works pretty good. The seeds are very tiny and black, and the blowdryer started blowing them away as well. I put the seeds and the husks in the blender and that chopped up the husks and not the seeds. It made the husks lighter than the seeds and I was able to blow off the husks really easily. I have about three cups of tiny black amaranth seeds. I cooked 1/3 of a cup with 2 cups of water, and it made two cups of delicious cooked amaranth. I can't wait to try it with huckleberries!

Now about Itsy and Bitsy. I made a second pot of soup today. This time it was Itsy and Bitsy's turn for the pot. Little Itsy and Bitsy that never did the world any harm. They were always the last in line, eating whatever they could, picking leaves of the plants. Itsy was the smallest one, always doing his own thing. Bitsy sometimes left and joined Jakes group, the little traitor. At least they are keeping each other company now.

Here is a picture of the amaranth husks flying away.