lamb's-quarters

In the fall, mushrooms, ripe with the smells of earth and rain and falling leaves; in the spring, mixed found vegetables--dandelion greens, purslane, and lamb's-quarters, cooked in a stew with garlic and hot pepper--with farm eggs poached on top; in the winter, cranberry bean soup cooked in a terra-cotta pot with the rinds of Parmesan cheese; and in the summer, fried zucchini flowers, crisp and aromatic as the early morning air in the mountains.

Maria Rodale: A Visit to My Kitchen: Eugenia Bone, Food Writer and Journalist Maria Rodale 2011

She went out in calf-length dresses and big black rubber boots, pulling stalks of blue chickweeds and lamb's-quarters, hacking at a half-dead hedge of privet shrubs.

Still Life, With Girl Brittany Newmark 2011

She went out in calf-length dresses and big black rubber boots, pulling stalks of blue chickweeds and lamb's-quarters, hacking at a half-dead hedge of privet shrubs.

Still Life, With Girl Brittany Newmark 2011

There were errands to look after, and usually a pig, and sometimes two, that accumulated adipose on purslane and lamb's-quarters, with surplus clams for dessert, also quahaugs to preserve the poetic unities.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Elbert Hubbard 1885

-- In winter we often see dead tops of lamb's-quarters and amaranths -- the smooth and the prickly pigweeds -- still standing where they grew in the summer.

Seed Dispersal 1878

Chenopodium berlandieri, which is lamb's-quarters, he says.

NPR Topics: News 2010

So as an alternative to the green bean casserole, why not try lamb's-quarters cooked with a little hickory nut butter and wild onion this holiday?

NPR Topics: News 2010

Chenopodium berlandieri, which is lamb's-quarters, he says.

NPR Topics: News 2010

So as an alternative to the green bean casserole, why not try lamb's-quarters cooked with a little hickory nut butter and wild onion this holiday?

NPR Topics: News 2010