I wish that I had remembered about this over the years. ;]

Last year a friend told me about eating milkweed. Then later in the year I was talking with a relative and mentioned it, she says— WELL, don’t you remember when the Indians taught us how to cook them. Mom used to take the real young pods and make them like creamed peas.

Last year it was too late to do anything about it so I had to WAIT a year.

Now that I have tried milkweed pods, I have to tell you that they ARE GREAT! Raw tastes like a salad green. ‘K’ and I liked it best fried with bacon – of course EVERYTHING tastes better with bacon. Younger pods are more tender than the older ones.

My research indicates that the pods can be boiled like broccoli, so I would think that a cheese sauce would go good with the pods. The young sprouts are supposed to be like asparagus and the young leaves can be cooked like any greens. Back in WWII the ‘fluff’ was collected to make life jackets for aircrew members.   

What are your thoughts and or experiences?

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