The Taraxacum officinale growing in your lawn is real good food too. Use it as Salad, cooked green, cooked vegtable, fritters, coffee. The young leaves, gathered be for the flowers appear, can be added to salads or boiled for 5-10 min. Although the entire lead can be used, the blanched part just below the soil level is best. Gathered when they are still tucked down in the rosette of leaves, the young flowerbuds can either be boiled for several minutes and served with butter, or pickled. The flowers are excellent dipped in batter, bake the roots the roots in slow oven until brown coffeelike beverage, bake the roots in a slow oven until brown and brittle, grind, and perk like commercial coffee, leaves rich in vitamin A.
Parts good by seasons are, Early spring (leaves, buds) Spring-early summer (flowers) Fall-early spring (roots). Thats a part from my book Peterson feild guilds edible wild plants from Lee Aleen Peterson.
