purslane

• Slowly but surely the Blue-Grass Aristocracy is giving way to purslane or asphalt, moving into flats, and allowing the boomer to plat its fair acres—running excursion-trains to attend auction-sales where all the lots are corner lots and are to be bought on the installment plan, which plan is said by a cynic to give the bicycle face. —  Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3
• This lawn fertilizer fills the need for additional lawn weed control, as the herbicide component fights everything from ground ivy to purslane to white clover. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
• After getting all kinds of feedback that purslane is healthy, nutritious, blahx3, I decided to try it out. —  Wandering Coyote
• A couple of handfuls of sea vegetables like small leaves of sea beet, samphire, sea purslane, wild fennel, trimmed of any woody stalks and washed —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
• Bring a pan of lightly salted water to the boil and blanch the samphire, sea purslane, or whichever sea vegetable you are using, for 20 seconds then refresh under the cold tap. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed

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