Common Mouse-ear Chickweed

Common Mouse-ear Chickweed
Cerastium fontanum

This highly invasive plant probably grows in your yard.  There are several species of chickweed.  This one has hairy "mouse ears".

Both this and Common Chickweed (Stellaria media), which also grows in your yard, are edible.  Here's a delicious sounding sandwich!

Chickweed Cheddar Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

This is a serious winner.

Ingredients:

1 tbs butter

2 slices whole wheat bread

2 ounces cheddar cheese

½ tart apple, with peel, thinly sliced

1 handful chickweed

Instructions:

1. Melt the butter in a heavy-bottomed cast-iron pan over low heat.  Set both slices of bread in the pan. Layer the cheese on one slice of bread, and set the apple slices in the empty spaces in the pan.  Let the apples cook and the bread toast.
2. After a few minutes, set the warm apples on the cheese.  Set the plain slice of bread on top of the apples.  Flip the sandwich and cook until the underside is browned, about three minutes.  Then pry open the bread and add the fresh chickweed.  Serve warm. 

Mouse ears!

These viny little plants intermix with the grass in your yard.