Grilled Hop Shoots - Best Recipe Showdown

[@abc_cba]

Please give us a complete tour of your garden in segments like Fruits / Vegetables growing in your garden. Thanks for the unusually supercool channel.

[@HaphazardHomestead]

I'm glad you're enjoying my channel, xxx xxx! There are so many great plants and mushrooms out there, in the garden and beyond. My place is not a showcase, lol -- "Haphazard Homestead" is the right description. Most folks might think it's messy, but it's easy to find food to eat. But I'll think about showing some things sometime (no guarantee) in the summer and autumn. Thanks for commenting!

[@abc_cba]

@@HaphazardHomestead My name's Samuel. Well, thanks for responding. Your videos are one I have binge watched almost all of them in the lockdown here in India. It is so informative that I've learnt just a completely new world of veggies. I am very very excited to see what fruits are there in your garden/farm. I'm sure everyone is. Keep your good work. Plenty of good wishes. Amen. 🇮🇳

[@ProctorsGamble]

Now that’s the best of the internet right there. Joining people all over the world for a common interest!

[@ms.s1321]

I just love your expression when you finished eating your food! I bet you don't spend a dime on vegetable! I just wanted to thank you for your incredible videos of edible wild plants. I learned so much by watching you. When I go out for a jog I would look out for some edible plants. I'm very fascinated with these edible wild plants out there.

[@ms.s1321]

My favorite is all of your dishes. I wish I could taste it. You making me drool. I can't wait to go outside and eat some grass.

[@birdsberriesbrews6191]

I love you. Great job

[@HaphazardHomestead]

I love hops, Birds, Berries & Brews! I hope you enjoy your hops shoots, too!

[@chickenstead6586]

Great video, made me hungry,,,,and thirsty for one of your odd beers.

[@HaphazardHomestead]

Glad you enjoyed my grilled hops, Shannon Champion. I am a champion of the Hops plant and hope more people start growing them for an easy springtime harvest, as real food. Grilled hops go well with good beer!

[@chickenstead6586]

@@HaphazardHomestead I have heard you say many times to pick clean, so now I keep saying it in my head when I am foraging wild edibles. Thanks for being a great teacher.

[@clo-1588]

Watching your videos on hops, I just got really enthusiastic and went out to harvest hop bine tips in the backstreet with the dog! I loved that in your other video, you told us what it would taste like, because even though I knew hops grew on 3 specific fences in my backstreet, they don't have their little pine cones yet, so I wanted to be sure I had the right thing. They DO taste like green beans! I'm really proud, and so happy I found your channel! I would love to hear more about dock, since I can see that it grows plentiful around here. So do lambsquarters - and your "is that lambsquarter too old to eat" video is how I found your channel!

[@clo-1588]

oh, and I'm gonna try and convince my parents to grow hops on their fence - they've been curious about foraging and they want a climbing plant

[@veganjasper]

I love your videos ❤

[@HaphazardHomestead]

Aww, thanks, Amber Merlea! I hope you get to enjoy hop shoots sometime. And then love them, too, because they are so good! :D

[@eugenepattivalitzski9757]

very nice

[@HaphazardHomestead]

Thanks, EugenePatti V! If people only knew how easy hops are to grow, and how good they are to eat in the spring, they would put some hop plants in the ground right away. They can be real food!

[@doihavtasay]

Had to come back after watching this last summer.... I am going to be READY to harvest the redbuds and the hops this year! Can not wait !!! LOVE your videos!! Might even get up the nerve to cook my Pokeweed too LOL The deer and birds might be mad.. but oh well. ;)

[@violetviolet888]

doihavtasay: How did it go, were they delicious?

[@Nishiskitchenrecipe]

Nice upload

[@HaphazardHomestead]

Thanks, Nishi

[@tallcedars2310]

Well dog gone if we don't have a hop plant, lol. It isn't out of the ground yet as it's behind the wood shed where it's a bit frozen yet. Will be trying the 3rd option you showed with the small pieces, it's how I eat spaghetti, lol. Hope I don't horrify any pasta eaters out there:) Have to put my thinking cap on for the dressing, as we don't have Redbud's here, maybe spruce tips or lilac flowers but thanks for another awesome video Chris!

[@HaphazardHomestead]

Hey, Tall Cedars, good to see you! I know you are always looking for wild greens to harvest way up north there where you are. Hops -- as a spring green -- would make a great perennial "weed" with a lot to harvest without much care. Established plants can be real monsters with so many shoots! These grilled shoots are good with balsamic vinegar or just a squeeze of lemon juice. But I eat them a lot of ways, not just grilled. I can't say enough good about hop shoots as a food plant. Happy spring to you - eventually!

[@tallcedars2310]

@@HaphazardHomestead Oh ya, that hops vine is like the hair of Madusa, it's all over the wood shed. Last summer it was like a jungle in there and had to fight my way in, not this year, ha! This summer will gladly cut those curly tips off to cook up. Made your spruce tip balsamic vinegar again, great stuff, and will definitely use it when I cook up those hops. Thanks Chris. Hope you have a great spring as well, cheers from the amost warm north!

[@toddfagan7703]

Thank you so nice

[@toddfagan7703]

All of them winners heck yeah

[@loanalacy4701]

Great video. Is it possible to train and grow along my chain link fence??? I have a very long fence.

[@HaphazardHomestead]

Yes, I've seen some nice trellis setups along a wood fence. Folks will run string up vertically, and then at the top of the fence have the string going about 10-15 feet to the left and and then the same distance to the right, about a foot below the top of the fence -- like a big T. The plants are spaced 20-30 feet apart, so their vines on the T grow towards each other. It looks really pretty with the hop cones in the late summer. The key is to keep the hops pruned so hard, so there's only a few vines going up that vertical string. It really looks nice. The caution with a chain link fence will be when the vines wrap through your chain links. The vines die back every year, and then you will need to go in and pull down all the woody and semi-woody vines. You could leave all the dead vines for winter interest, and even over several years, because the next year's growth will just cover up the old stuff. But eventually, that will be a heavy load on your fence. Hope that helps. Hops are fun to grow, so pretty with their hops cones in late summer, and the spring eating is so good, too.

[@ProctorsGamble]

Now I’m waiting for the redbuds to bloom! I think I would try cutting them on the grill with scissors before serving.

[@ipomoeaalba936]

How can one choose?! I'm rarely amazed. Thank you.

[@AMonikaD]

Hi, oh you're so funny, love it! Question: will I find hops in the wild? I've only seen the wild grapes. Maybe I should plant it in my garden? Also...why no alcohol with mushrooms? For a few days? Sounds terrifying, lol!

[@HaphazardHomestead]

Hops can grow in the wild, but aren't common. It's easy to grow them, though. I hope that more people will think of them as food crops and landscape plants, not just for brewing beer.The no alcohol is just for mushrooms in the genus Coprinopsis, because they have a chemical that stops the digestion of even a little alcohol, for just a few days. They are tasty and safe otherwise. It just takes planning. I'll do a video on them sometime...

[@toddfagan7703]

Omg looks mmm mm good

[@douglasd327]

You are so hilarious!

[@debrabrooks6138]

I had no idea hops shoots were edible! They grow in the wild here and are a highly invasive plant that I can find them readily. I don't have teeth, so I would probably chop them up small, perhaps in a bacon dressing with wood ears and wild onions and wild carrot greens and sliced roots.

[@HaphazardHomestead]

That sounds delicious, Debra Brooks! I wonder if your invasive hops are the Japanese Hops (Humulus japonicus), since the Common hops (Humulus lupulus) are not usually invasive. The Japanese hops will be more hairy and bristly, and they are annuals, too, rather than perennial. I haven't eaten them. But Common Hops, I would grow them just for the shoots, they are that good. As a perennial, the Common Hops have a lot of shoots. I'll be interested to find out more about your hops and what you think of them, if you do try them out!

[@debrabrooks6138]

@@HaphazardHomestead Yes I looked at my photos and you are right it is Japanese Hops, mine are extremely hairy also I had gotten a ID for a plant ID group on FB and looked it up myself on several sites. I will be going on a Gathering walk soon but I don't think they are growing here yet. But I will let you know!

[@mirarts99]

Need one plant plz😢

[@chansamonephommachack8920]

Can you stir fry?

[@ms.s1321]

Don't serve this to your company because they going to think you trying to turn them to a goat! You made me laugh so hard!

[@warrenokuma7264]

So... being in Hawaii I have never had red buds... so... huh. Um... the one with the pickled red buds... maybe? Um. Hmm.... sure. Pickles. Probably. Good video though.

[@warrenokuma7264]

Just found out I can't grow hops in Hawaii as well because its too hot. Ah, well.

[@HaphazardHomestead]

You may have Redbuds closer to you than you think. They have been featured as landscape plants on PBS Hawaii even. And you may be able to grow hops, too. I've seen reports of folks growing hops on homebrew forums, on Maui, near Lahaina. And one viewer on another Hops video I have, Brew Ha Admin, said they are successfully growing hops in the Phillippines! I hope you can try Redbuds and Hop Shoots someday. In the meantime, you have all that great tropical fruit around you -- lucky! :D :D

[@warrenokuma7264]

@@HaphazardHomestead Thanks!

[@ms.s1321]

Bull shut! Lol!