Well, I ate and prepared my first meal with lily bulbs today. These were NOID dwarf Asiatic lilies. Now looking at Rick's last few pictures and vivid descriptions, I feel really, really sick...
However it was actually rather good. I assume they will be sweater later on in the season, but for now they had no sweetness at all. Eaten raw there were just a little hint of bitterness, but this went away when cocked. I served them slightly crunchy in a stir-fry, with butternut squash, leeks, carrots, ginger, lemon, garlic, chili, soy sauce, fish sauce and pork meat.They tasted something a bit between beans and potatoes. Very nice and it's fun to be able to use something that would otherwise have been composted, so I say thanks for the idea
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I have also planted some bulblets of 'Netty's Pride' in the kitchen garden for later consumption. These was sent to me by error instead of another cultivar and therefore had to be moved as they were the wrong height for that spot .They were just planted this spring, but even so they had already set an unusual amount of bulblets and many of them were also of fairly good size. They seemed very vigorous so I thought this was a good candidate to try as a food crop.
