Spring Traditions

Last year on a lazy spring day we were Playing in the dandelions and I was telling my kids how you can eat them.  We decided to look up a recipe and stumbled upon one for dandelion cookies from 5 Orange Potatoes.  The cookies were so good that we went on to make the syrup from this site also.

All winter long they have been talking about those wonderful cookies, so of course, as soon as the dandelions started popping up they wanted more cookie.  We made our 3rd batch for the season today!  After filling a bowl with the tops of the dandelions we got to work pulling the florets off.  We are still following the 5 Orange Potatoes recipe but these days I pretty much always use coconut oil in place of butter for all of my baking so we did change that.

Dandelions add such beauty and color to the yards!  I hate looking across the street at the well trimmed, chemical lawns that are so devoid of happiness.  I can't ever imagine my kids growing up in a yard without pretty yellow weeds that soon turn into little puff balls that send your wishes up to the sky.