Chickweed Egg Salad Sandwich

Chickweed is a common plant found in my garden, and it has a crisp, mild, and refreshing flavor, making it great for salads and sandwiches. The only problem tends to be that it’s a bit of a pain to collect. Early spring and fall is when they are most tender and leafy, since they become spindly and tough while in flower and seed.

Because it grows so readily but is not intrusive in the sense that it crowds other things out, I tend to leave it alone, just enjoying the knowledge that it is there if I need it.

Sometimes when I have a hankering for egg salad sando (from the chickens of course), but want to be a bit healthy, I collect some to throw in.

There really is no special recipe for this, rather it’s just a showcase of a fun green–Kewpie mayo, hardboiled eggs, salt, pepper, and milk bread. If you don’t have kewpie mayo, a little sugar in regular mayonnaise goes a long way.