Brian Marshall & The ROCK 108 Morning Show - "Eat Your Christmas Tree?"

It's news to me that you may be thinking about

how

you're going to dispose of it, but you can totally just eat it.

A few years back we heard about it in Artisan Baker and Cook in the UK who wrote a book called How to Eat Your Christmas Tree.

How to Eat Your Christmas Tree is a cookbook that explores the unsung edible heroes of our forests, the humble Christmas trees and their evergreen friends.

In the US and UK alone, 40 million trees are harvested and thrown away each year.

My little green cookbook's 22 delicious recipes with ideas such as Christmas tree cured salmon, spruce flavored ice cream, and Christmas tree alcohol.

Yeah, Christmas tree alcohol and ice cream.

Yeah.

She says the needles can be used like rosemary or bay leaves and are a good source of vitamin C, can also be crushed to flavor gin and vinegar.

Sounds like everything I'm doing.

No, I'm not.

The wood can be burned to make pine ash, which can be used as flavoring as fertilizer in gardens and for cleaning the kitchen.

It doesn't say anywhere on how to eat your Christmas tree that you can roll it up and smoke it.

Can you imagine?

You just roll that together.

Is that an angel wing?

Oh man, what is that?

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