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苦菜 / Kucai (Chinese sowthistle stir-fry)
Common sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus) is a hardy flowering plant in the family Asteraceae (alongside, for example, daisies, sunflowers, and dandelions). It is native to Europe and West Asia, but appears throughout the Americas, East Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. It is a common weed in recently disturbed soil, and sometimes pops up among and competes with cultivated crops.
Sowthistle is eaten as a bitter green in Chinese cuisine. The word "苦菜" (Mandarin Pinyin: kǔcà i), from "苦" "kǔ" "bitter" + "菜" "cà i" "vegetable" or "greens," is often used to refer to sowthistle—though it may also designate other bitter greens, including garlic chives.
This recipe prepares sowthistle as Chinese bitter greens are generally prepared: blanched in salted water, then fried with ginger and garlic. The sweetness and pungency of the aromatics round out the earthy bitterness of the sowthistle, making a dish that's excellent as a side with soup or rice. Here, I used it to top a fried tofu sandwich with a soy-sesame-ginger sauce.
Recipe under the cut!
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Upcoming Book Release and Some Sowthistle Identification
If you’re reading this the day it’s posted, we are two weeks away from my book being released. Common Backyard Weeds of the Pacific Northwest will be available for purchase from your favorite bookseller on July 7, 2026. The book is a quick guide to many of the common weeds you will find across Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and parts of British Columbia and Alaska. It’s small enough to fit in your…
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21/09/24-Orach, my first Clouded Yellow of the year, Long-winged Conehead on chamomile, view, Linnet, Rook and dock at Milford-on-Sea and narrow leaf blue eyed grass in the garden. I am ecstatic to see the Clouded Yellow and another striking paler one on the walk, a sensational, exquisite and well coloured species that was the last one I could add to my year list it's the second latest in a year I've first seen one or any butterfly species so I wasn't sure if I'd see one this year. I'm thrilled to have seen forty three butterfly species this year, my joint third highest ever in a challenging year for them.
Other highlights on the great walk at the beautiful Milford-on-Sea were Small White, Large White, Peacock, Common Blue, Long-winged Conehead, Buzzard, Rook, Feral Pigeon, Rock Pipit, Wheatear, Stonechat, Linnets, Swallow, Sandwich Terns including diving into the water close to shore, Black-headed Gull, beautiful sand spurrey, sea rocket, ragwort, sowthistle, thrift, creeping thistle, white campion, hogweed seed heads and an (albeit knocked over) parasol mushroom. At home there were some great sightings today with the Chiffchaff coming into the garden for the second day running and landing on a sunflower, Blue Tit, Goldfinch including young, Starling, Collared Dove, Jackdaws, Large White, Speckled Wood and cranefly including on a rose.

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The fourteenth card of the Tarot is associated with Sagittarius. It suggests the presence of faith, divine protection and the assistance of angelic spirit. It guides us to the way of balance and moderation. It’s recognition that more or less are not in themselves better- the ideal is to find the middle ground that generates the highest quality of pleasure and reward. It brings to mind the image of a chemist in their lab, experimenting with the perfect list and amount of ingredients for the most effective formula. It’s both philosophical and grounded. It honors and accesses both the mind and emotions as navigational tools.  Many decks include an image of the angel Michael. The fourteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Nun, can mean continuity or heir. Â
Sow Thistle symbolizes eccentricity and boundlessness. It’s linked to Venus (warm + moist/kidneys, throat, skin, hair). It’s a mild diuretic, can calm the stomach, and is beneficial in the treatment of urinary problems. The white sap from the stem is thought to be healing to the skin, and can be used as a pain reliever.
Manly Palmer Hall (March 18, 1901 – August 29, 1990) was a Canadian-born author, lecturer, astrologer and mystic. He is best known for his 1928 work The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Over his 70 year career, he gave thousands of lectures, including two at Carnegie Hall, and published over 150 volumes. In 1934, he founded The Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, which he dedicated to the “Truth Seekers of All Time,” with a research library, lecture hall and publishing house. Many of his lectures can be found online and his books are still in print.
#1236 - Syrphid Maggot
Back in 2015, I pulled up at a job, looked down at the weeds beside the driveway, and discovered an entire ecosystem of parasites, predators, other parasites, and pathogens. And I only noticed the pathogen this evening. Which only goes to prove just how behind I am in posting the species I’ve actually managed to ID.Â
The plants were Common Sowthistle, Sonchus oleraceus, and it was heavily infested with Brown Sowthistle Aphids Uroleucon sonchi , so I knelt down in the hope of finding anybody taking advantage of this - and I did. This hoverfly larvae is gorging her way through the infestation, something many of the more common hoverflies do as maggots.