Bacon, lettuce, tomato and pinyon sandwiches?

Green beans with butter, bacon and pine nuts.

Now we're cooking! Firing up the appetite for the coming feast.

Happy Thanksgiving!

How about Hemlock tea with a side of bacon? No...wait... that's not a good idea, just ask Shakespeare.

Araurcaria araucana, Monkey Puzzle Tree, seeds are good to eat. It's from Chile. Served quite often in Santiago.
I met a man from Chile a few weeks ago when I was hiking on Mt. Hood in Oregon, and I asked him what they call the tree there. He said Pinones. lol All trees are pines, aren't they? ;-)
He also said they call Gunnera, Nalca. For those of you who can't grow, or are not familiar with Gunnera I've attached a picture of one. The leaves are huge and feel like sandpaper. Sunset magazine calls it Dinosaur food.
Ken, what kind of sauce do you like with your bacon? ;-)

Both together. Something you'd never find together in Chile where they grow because they like entirely different conditions. Gunnera can grow in standing water for a large part of the year.
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Check out the blossom on the Gunnera.
I'm wandering a bit this morning.....as usual. (Retired people can do that) Click on the pictures for more.
Mike

Mike , I also grow something called dinosaur food,
Petasites,,,,,,while not as big as Gunnera , it also has the most unusual blooms,,,,comes out of the spring mud like a fist,,,,,,great, sautéed with bacon,,,with or without pine nuts
ron

FWIW, the hemlock referred to by Shakespeare (and what killed Socrates) is poison hemlock, Conium maculatum - not a conifer at all but a forb in the parsley family. You are perfectly safe munching on Tsuga needles or seeds if you like but I don't imagine they taste very good, with or without bacon :-)

Bacon and conifers, two of the best things on earth! How about some boar jowl bacon cooked crispy with juniper berries as a topper for green bean casserole. Juniper berries have a resinous, rosemary like flavor, with citrus overtones that pairs well with meat. =)