{"id":2711,"date":"2015-07-31T10:05:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T10:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/?p=2711"},"modified":"2015-07-31T10:30:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T10:30:59","slug":"epazote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/epazote\/","title":{"rendered":"Epazote"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK – so why grow something that tastes like Kerosene? Epazote \u00a0–\u00a0Dysphania ambrosioides (syn Chenopodium ambrosioides) – is a fast growing very hardy plant (weed?) that produces seed like a blizzard and is a short lived perennial with a fairly longish life in your garden due to the seed production if you let it drop any.\u00a0It grows as a weed in many places beside roads etc and really needs to be managed carefully if you grow it. You only need a small plant generally to supply all your needs.<\/p>\n

The whole of the plant smells and tastes truly odd with a very high level of oil.<\/p>\n

The oil levels seem to change a lot based on where you are growing it and the flavour can vary quite a bit from country to country.<\/p>\n

It’s most famous uses are in the ‘Mexican Tea’ and in specific types of Mexican Salsa and Mole and for use when cooking Black Beans.<\/p>\n

The tea is truly an ‘experience’… I would advise you to brace yourself…<\/p>\n

BUT the Black Bean thing\u00a0is\u00a0great…<\/p>\n

You can use it for any of the slow cooked beans like Kidney but the Back Turtle Beans are best.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_turtle_bean<\/a><\/p>\n

see my article here: Black Turtle Bean<\/a><\/p>\n

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You only need a sprig or two for a large pot of Black beans but\u00a0it really does add a certain unique flavour profile that is hard to explain or describe and it is not able to be replaced or imitated by any other herb.<\/p>\n

It does\u00a0have a history of being used in tea form for various stomach issues and also as a worm killer or making them leave your digestive tract.<\/p>\n

This allows you to make the nice\u00a0soup from the left over Black Bean water<\/strong> that tastes correct and again unique. The Black Beans stain the water Black as they cook.<\/p>\n

You do not want to have too much of this stuff as it has a lot of weird chemicals in it that are somewhat unpredictable and dangerous in large amounts.<\/p>\n

But like many herbs that have been used by humans for many millenia – if you are careful and use just a little bit as it always has been – it’s likely OK.<\/p>\n

\"Epazote\"<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dysphania_ambrosioides<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK – so why grow something that tastes like Kerosene? Epazote \u00a0–\u00a0Dysphania ambrosioides (syn Chenopodium ambrosioides) – is a fast growing very hardy plant (weed?) that produces seed like a blizzard and is a short […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/Epazote.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2ccXI-epazote","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2715,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions\/2715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}