4 hours ago, Smithy said:Oh, how lovely! Thank you for a fun, inspiring and hopeful post.
This food text caught my eye:
Ful I know (in fact, I have a couple of cans in my pantry) but to me lupins are a flower...a lovely but aggressive plant, with wildly dispersing seeds once their pods start to pop. I don't know it as a food source for humans. Are we talking about the same thing? If so, what part of the plant?
Yes, those are seeds of some lupin flower variety, which is a legume. It has to be soaked and boiled to remove its toxicity. The texture is somewhat firm and snappy, a bit like edamame but firmer and a tad starchy. It can be bought in canned form, but I've never seen it sold raw.
